Carrots
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The Joy of Growing Your Own Carrots
There’s something special about plucking a fresh carrot straight from the earth and tasting its crisp, sweet flavour – a taste that only comes from homegrown goodness. Whether you have a sprawling garden or a small allotment, growing your own…
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Four delicious recipes using carrots
We’ve been thinking about the vegetables that are currently in season, those we have a lot of and how we could use them all up. So we thought we’d share a couple of ideas, we found online, for you to…
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How to sow
Some vegetables are sown direct and then thinned out as they grow and are harvested where they were originally sown.
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Growing in containers
So, what’s a container? This depends on what crops you are growing, for example lettuce and salad leaves can be grown in quite shallow containers. A small trough 17cm (7in) deep and 30cm (12in) long would suffice for a few…
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Starting the veg patch
You can start a veg patch almost any time if you have a nice piece of bare soil. However, if you are starting from scratch and the area is still lawn or very weedy this is best treated with a…
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Small space growing
If you don’t have a lot of room to grow, there are many ways to maximise crops from tiny places. Emma Rawlings suggests some ideas. Edible corner This picture shows that in a small sunny corner you can create something…
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Grow your own veg fast
In these uncertain times lots of people are having the urge to start growing their own veg. Why not have a go at microgreen growing tasty nutritious veg in a matter of days. Microgreens are veg harvested while still only…
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Improve your mood, sow some food
It is difficult right now if you are confined to your home so why not start growing your own food. It’s a great stress-buster In these uncertain times a lot of people are having a strong desire to grow their…
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Podcast 75: How to Beat Carrot Fly
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. You’re more likely to get Carrot Fly than not if you don’t protect your crops. Fortunately, there’s plenty you can do to beat Carrot…
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Sowing Kits
Kitchen Garden Best Buy and Top Picks for April. This month the KG team have been looking at sowing kits and more… BEST BUY SEED SOWING STARTER KIT This sowing kit comes with a five litre bag of vermiculite, a…
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Carrot supplies hit by heavy flooding
UK at risk of running low on carrot supplies after heavy flooding • More than half of UK carrot growers have been hit by recent flooding. • Producers in the main carrot growing regions in the North of England and…
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Video: Harvesting Carrots
The finale to our series on growing carrots, in this episode we finally harvest the crop. For more videos, visit the Kitchen Garden YouTube channel at the link below: www.youtube.com/kitchengardenmagazine
