Peas
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How to grow your own plant-based protein this Veganuary
Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian or just trying to cut down your meat and dairy intake, how about growing your own plant-based protein?
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Jazz up your sprouts!
They don’t want, or need, to be soggy, tasteless or grey… liven up your Christmas dinner with this zingy recipe from the team at YesPeas!
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How to grow peas and beans for drying
Green beans and peas are a national favourite, yet relatively few UK gardeners grow them for drying. KG editor Steve Ott offers some advice on growing and storing these nutritious crops.
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Growing In Small Spaces: Hanging Gardens Of Plenty
Ben Vanheem offers more inspiration for great hanging pots and containers to grow fruit and veg.
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Grow your own: Peas
This has to be one of the favourite veg of all time; even children manage to eat a few peas when they may turn their nose up at other vegetables.
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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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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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National Beanpole Week 2020
In these troubling times, there has never been a greater need to make use of our outdoor space and create something positive Gardeners and coppice workers nationwide are getting ready for National Beanpole Week – despite the pressures coronavirus is…
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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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Join the Raised Bed Revolution
Raised beds are the answer to many gardeners’ problems making gardening easier, accessible, more productive and available to all. Gardening Works Wooden Raised Beds are available in different sizes and heights making them user friendly for children, the elderly and…
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Stepping up to the plate
A gardening collaboration set up by Wedgwood for college students has been so successful it is returning for a second year. Last year Wedgwood gave 30 students at Reaseheath College, in Nantwich, the chance to work on garden spaces at…
