Sowing
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Oh so simple salad leaves!
Seed companies offer so many salad leaf varieties these days and the good news is that you can be picking them all summer long and beyond if you sow little and often. One of the simplest ways to grow salad…
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Finger-licking peppers
Sowing seeds can be fiddly at the best of times. Chilli and sweet pepper seedlings aren’t too bad but even so I still find them tricky. What I find easiest is to lick my forefinger and then press gently on…
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Who needs a seed tray?
Within reason you can grow anything in just about anything. I tend to keep the plastic cartons that come with tomatoes and use them instead of seed trays – they have ready-made holes for a start and, as the seeds…
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Mudketeers Diary – Feb 12th 2017
Sowing chillies Spent Sunday morning sowing chillies, surely one of the best plants to grow. I love the shape of the leaves, the flowers and, of course, the fruit. And they come in such amazing varieties – grow for heat,…
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Heligan Sows Britain’s Lost Crop
Turn the clocks back over 100 years. Heligan gardeners turned the clocks back over 100 years earlier in the month as the iconic estate prepared the ground for a summer of spectacular blooms. Visitors and staff alike watched in awe…
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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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From the Forum… Pots or beds?
The Kitchen Garden Forum is a fun, thriving community of people like you. Each week we highlight a thread for further discussion. Forum member Geoff asks: Do you think Peppers, Chillis and Aubergines do better in a greenhouse/polytunnel bed or in…
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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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Video How-To Guide – Sowing Chillies
Jobs for the month: February. The chilli pepper has seen an incredible leap in its fan base over the past few years. Watch as Kitchen Garden’s very own Emma walks you through a step-by-step of sowing chillies.
