Tag: Vegetables
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Garlic
Garlic is very easy to grow and is affected by fewer pests and diseases than most plants. Planting The soil should be free draining and largely spent e.g. not too nutrient rich. If the soil holds too much water the bulbs will rot. Varieties Solent Wight Planted: Early 2023, Early 2024 (from saved bulbs) A…
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Planting in 2024
This is a list of all the vegetables (and maybe a few other plants) for 2024. Mostly this is for my own reference but you might be interested to see when I plant things. I live in the UK and my last frost date is between 10th and 20th March for my home site. I’m…
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Seed Trays
Each year I try something new with my vegetable growing. A few years back it was no dig, which was a great success. This year I’m going to try long life seed trays. I guessing I’m not alone in obsessing about giving my seedlings the best start in life. It’s completely silly because they are…
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All About Compost
I tried the no dig method of vegetable gardening a few years ago and I was immediately sold on (most of) it. Laying a fresh lot of compost on the ground is far less work than digging it and as far as weed control goes I couldn’t ask for more. The downside of no dig…
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What We’re Growing in 2024
We’re growing much more this year than we have in previous years thanks to some extra ground becoming available to us. I was trying to keep everything in my head but it quickly became apparent that wasn’t going to work… so I made a spreadsheet. The table below is an extract from that spreadsheet. Totalling…
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Growing Sweet Potatoes in the UK
I’ve decided this year (2024) I’ll have a crack at growing sweet potatoes. From what I’ve read it should be possible to get a crop as long as they are started early enough and we have a reasonable summer. They are a tropical plant so they are a bit marginal in the UK. I’ve decided…