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Mudketeers diary-28th March 2018
Triffid tale Nothing makes such a dramatic entrance as rhubarb. It’s thick fleshy shoots emerge from the ground like a monster from the deep. All I need do now is to mulch with some garden compost around the base making…
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Mudketeers diary-23rd March 2018
Let-tuce start sowing What a lovely morning to start sowing. The sun was out, the sky was blue and from the warm comfort of the greenhouse I could hear the birds singing their little hearts out. I could feel all…
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Mudketeers diary-13th March 2018
Spuddy marvellous The seed potatoes are sprouting nicely. I had them in the porch for a while as I thought the greenhouse was too cold for them. I have just put them out in the greenhouse to encourage nice stout,…
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A gardener in the making
Part time KG helper and full time journalism student Theo Osborn talks about his experience helping the team with some sowing and filming Growing up, my mum would try to make me tend to some of the gardening, though it…
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Mudketeers diary-18th Dec 2017
Covering the beds I’ve been adding a layer of well rotted horse manure to my raised beds and covering with polythene to prevent winter rain washing through the nutrients. I am fortunate in that I have a couple of ponies…
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Mudketeers diary -15th Dec 2017
Long lived kale In autumn 2016 I sowed a new kale called ‘Emerald Ice’. I put three in a large pot but only one survived. I ignored the plant and did nothing with it and it got hidden by other…
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Making and using biochar
Biochar is said to be highly beneficial to the soil. KG reader Alan Free has spent many years perfecting a simple way to make it at home Biochar is basically a form of charcoal that is made from anything that…
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Fun, frogs and slow worms!
Nicky & Sarah & The Jet Guerillas are a gardening group based in West Sussex, formed to improve their local community through gardening We have a small allotment not far from where we live in Shoreham By Sea. We were…
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From the forum: Are black flies anything to worry about?
The Kitchen Garden Forum is a fun, thriving community of people like you. Each week we highlight a thread for further discussion. Forum user Colin2016 asks: Planted cabbage, broccoli cauliflower & kale in raised bed covered in white ground cover…
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Mr Fothergill’s big marrow update
Our friends at Mr Fothergill’s have joined in the fun and are growing their own giant marrows. have you entered our competition yet? Just in are these pictures of some rather nice marrows being grown at Mr Fothergill’s trials grounds…
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Easton Walled Gardens joins race for giant marrow
Gorgeous Grantham garden competes for the prize I thought I’d send you an update on the marrows in the gardens. Our outdoor sown courgette took a week longer to germinate than our indoor sown, but didn’t have to cope with…
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Third time lucky?
It’s July 11 and Marvin’s rival (no 3) is growing well ….Just a case of whether the mildew brings an end to his growth spurt!
