13 Black Fruits to Grow for Halloween
13 Black fruits to grow for Halloween – because it’s a fun, spooky idea but one which allows you to
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Edible Gardens
Harvesting Apples – Q & A
Harvesting apples is generally easy, but there are times when things aren’t quite as straightforward as you’d hope. Perhaps you’re
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Cordon Apple Trees – Garden Surprises when Pruning
Cordon apple trees are an excellent way to grow one of Britain’s favourite fruits in a small space. But they
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What is Straw Bale Gardening?
Straw bale gardening could easily be seen as a quirky, attention grabbing growing method. One that was thought up by
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Grow Your Own Gin Garden
Could you grow your own gin garden? Including the tonic? The answer, as we shall see is both yes and
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Easy Maintenance Edible Gardens
Easy maintenance edible gardens – many people consider that to be a contradiction in terms, but it doesn’t have to
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How to Grow Onions – and a bit of Onion History
How to Grow Onions – which is what many gardening articles will help with but also in this one, a
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Growing New Potatoes for Christmas Dinner
Growing new potatoes during the autumn – a novel idea to you? How do you fancy eating new potatoes for
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Edible Plants for Hanging Baskets
Edible plants for hanging baskets – suggestions for salads, fruit and herbs that will happily grown in a hanging basket.
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9 Winter Vegetable Garden Tasks to be Doing Now
Why only 9 Winter Vegetable Garden Tasks to be doing now when there are obviously many more? Because you don’t
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How to Grow Vegan Herbs
Why vegan herbs specifically? Because I felt that there was a bit of a gap between the buying vegan and
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Bramley Apple – from chance find to nation’s favourite
The Bramley apple is undoubtedly Britain’s favourite apple for cooking with. Indeed ‘Bramley’ is almost synonymous with ‘cooking apple’ for
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5 Favourite Vegetables
This 5 favourite vegetables blog is inspired by the fact we had World Vegetarian Day on the of 1st October
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The Allotment – A Pictorial Tour
This Allotment blog is a predominantly pictorial whiz through the seasons of the year and different countries in celebration of
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Growing acid loving Fruits
Acid loving fruits are those which need or prefer an acidic soil to grow in. Rather than starting with how to
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Why are Carrots Orange? A Brief History of a Favourite Vegetable
Why are Carrots Orange? A Brief History of a Favourite Vegetable – an easy and informative read for you. Of
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What is an Ornamental Edible Garden?
What is an Ornamental Edible Garden? As I sit here looking out at my own ornamental edible garden in the
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Tromboncino – A Vegetable for Music Lovers?
Tromboncino – A Vegetable for Music Lovers? May be a jokey question, but this is a tasty if oddly shaped
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Salad Blue Potatoes Potting Compost Comparison
Salad Blue Potatoes are a heritage variety which I haven’t grown for too many years to mention! I picked up
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Unusual Vegetables for Your Garden
A selection of unusual vegetables that you could grow in your garden. I’ve given you lists broken down by vegetable
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Beautiful Apple Blossom Trees for Your Garden
Apple blossom time is spread out over a number of weeks, months even, from April through to June. This has
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Planting Peas and Potatoes on St Patrick’s Day
“Planting peas and potatoes on St Patricks Day?” I hear you say, “Shouldn’t that be planting clover or shamrock?” A
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Holly, Yerba Mate, Coffee – What’s Growing in Your Garden?
The weather fluctuations over the last few years have had a detrimental effect on coffee bean crops. Which is bad
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Quince Cheese
What is quince cheese? It is a preserve made with the fruit of the quince tree. Although it’s not the
National Allotments Week 2018 – Living and Growing
National Allotments Week 2018 takes place from August 13 – 19. So what, you may think, I don’t have an
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Three Sisters History of a Cultivation Method
This Three Sisters history could be a blog related to the National Sibling Day which is held in some of
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What is a Vegetable Garden and Why Would You Want One?
Vegetable garden, vegetable plot, vegetable patch. Which is the correct term? Does it matter? Will you be thought pretentious if you call
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Forced Rhubarb – Growing by Candlelight
Forced Rhubarb – Growing by Candlelight is a celebration of a British farming method that has created a world renowned
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Bare Root Fruit Trees
Bare root fruit trees are an economical way to plant yourself a mini orchard in your garden or allotment. As they
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Garden Visits – Kitchen Gardens
Garden visits kitchen gardens is a largely pictorial blog. Visiting kitchen gardens, both famous and less well known, is both part
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Strawberries, Summertime, Grow your Own Fruit
Strawberries are a popular grow your own fruit. This is because they are fairly easy to grow; generally produce a (small)
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Quince Trees
Quince trees – Cydonia oblongata – are related to both apples and pears and like those fruit have a long