Lettuce
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Grow your own: Lettuce
Lettuce has to be one of the most popular vegetables to grow. It is fast maturing, the ultimate salad ingredient and can be grown in a relatively small area.
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Podcast 81: Grow a salad bar
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Watery iceberg lettuce and under-ripe tomatoes, anyone? Not on your nelly! Grow your own salad bar and give the limp and lacklustre the heave-ho.…
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Mudketeers diary – 6th May 2020
Young lettuce planted out In April I sowed some lettuce in cell trays filled with multi-purpose compost. It is a good way to start lettuce off; getting them to a decent size before planting out. You avoid a lot of…
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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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Hanging veg gardens
It is possible to grow an increasing range of tasty vegetables and herbs in hanging baskets, here are some top tips to get you started.
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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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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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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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Podcast 65: Jobs for October
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. We’re well into October and there’s still plenty to do on the plot. Steve, Emma and Tony cover jobs to do this month including…
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Do these Slug Control Methods Actually Work?
With an incredibly wet start to summer this year, there couldn’t be a more pressing time for gardeners to think about slug control. Just as the season is heading towards its peak and your garden is filled with fresh and…
