Vegetable Gardening

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Jul, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Community Vegetable Garden Created out of Recycled Items

A community on the Holly Estate, Oldham, Lancashire, have created a vegetable garden using an interesting variety of recycled items. Oldham News reports: “RECYCLING residents in Royton have come up with some inventive ideas to create a unique community fruit
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May, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

What to do in January in the vegetable garden

The weather in January means there are fewer outside jobs to do in the vegetable garden, and productive time can be spent inside planning this season’s crops. Seeds to Sow in January: in a cold frame – early radish, lettuce
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May, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Planning to Grow Vegetables

If you are planning to grow vegetables, before you start buying seed: * decide which vegetables you want to grow * list those vegetables * make a chart of how many of these veg you will eat each month *
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May, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Germination Temperature for Vegetable Seeds

There is an optimum temperature, the most ideal temperature,  for vegetable seed to germinate, and it varies from one type of veg to another. The optimum temperature is printed on the back of some seed packets. Seeds will germinate over
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May, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Raised Beds

  Raised beds may be the talk of the modern gardener, but they could make gardening easier and improve the productivity of traditional vegetable gardens. Raised beds have the obvious advantage of being lifted up off the ground so the gardener
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May, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Asparagus Spring Care

Spring care of the asparagus bed involves weeding and feeding. Weeding: spray the asparagus bed with glyphosate (Roundup) in early spring (as long as no asparagus have emerged). after a few days, when all weeds are dead, cover the bed
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May, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Enviromesh Netting

Enviromesh netting has had a huge impact on vegetable gardening, and would be a welcome gift to a vegetable gardener. Enviromesh Netting: guarantees gardeners quality vegetables assures return on effort gets rid of caterpillar infested, dirty, distorted crops which children dare
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Apr, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

How to Grow Pumpkins in your Vegetable Garden

How To Grow Pumpkins In Your Vegetable Garden By Dave Truman Pumpkins are great for a number of purposes. They can be used to make a great pie, and of course there’s the traditional Halloween decoration. Fortunately, growing good ones
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Apr, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Summer or Winter Squash

Squash are classified as Summer or Winter Squash,  depending on  how long the fruit will store. Summer squash is: less mature smaller will not store long Courgettes & zucchinis are examples of summer squash. Winter squash is: more mature kept
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Apr, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

How to Prepare a Seed Bed

The soil must be prepared before seeds are planted. The prepared soil is called a seed bed. A vegetable seedbed should be:  level well drained – therefore it is dug to loosten the soil & break up the pan which would
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