Seeds
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VIDEO: Sowing Sweetcorn in Rootrainers
Soil temperature might still be too cold for sowing outside, so why not use rootrainers and germinate them in a greenhouse in mid-April? Thank you to Crowders.co.uk for supplying us with these great Haxnicks Rootrainers for filming! You can purchase…
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VIDEO: Sowing Courgettes
Courgettes are a great crop for beginners: easy to grow, heavy cropping and great in pots. Watch to find out how to get started…
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Sowing Carrots
Here are a few tips you might find useful for sowing carrots The main sowing period is March through to June, though I have sown in July too with good results Don’t sow in soil that has been freshly manured…
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Oh no! Leggy Seedlings!
Do your seedlings look like this? It’s not unusual if we start sowing indoors early that we get leggy seedlings I’ve often had this problem with tomato and pepper seedlings. So keen to get sowing and making a head start!…
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The Kelsae Makes a Comeback!
Onion the Kelsae makes a comeback as young plants from D.T Brown For long a favourite with many exhibitors and other keen vegetable growers, Onion The Kelsae was virtually eradicated when the seed crop was wiped out by a freak…
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New Microgreens To Try
The selection of fast-growing microgreens just got even bigger with these new introductions for 2016 If your forward planning for spring 2016 wasn’t all it might have been, seedling salad crops offer a quick way of closing the ‘hungry gap’.…
