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Growing Herbs in Pots and Containers
Herbs are very easy to grow from seeds or from cuttings; they require little maintenance and you can easily grow them in pots and various containers. The different herbs can be planted together in a...
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Basil in Pots
Basil is the love of herbs or king of herbs. Most gardeners do grow basil, I do try to have a pot at least on the windowsill all year around. Basil, as many other herbs, a great cut and come again...
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Holy and Thai Basil
Herbs, squashes, tomatoes and salad items are all producing nicely at the moment and finally the two heat loving basil variety has reached a decent height nad I could try them out. Basil is normally...
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Fresh Herbs all Winter
With a little preparation, you can have delicious fresh herbs right through the cold winter months. Many herbs can be grown on a light windowsill in the home. If you were lucky to have a surplus of...
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Growing Fennel.
Fennel is an very old plant that has it’s origins along the shores of the mediterraean but it is now found around the world. It is often seen along roadsides and riverbanks from Austrailia to the USA....
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Kale Extravaganza!
It’s a short blog today as this weekend we’ve been busy getting ready for our trip to India! We fly to Kerala on Friday evening for Christmas and New Year so needless to day are pretty excited about...
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Snowdrops and Snow.
Its very cold today, snow is coming and I can see from my window that the first light snowflakes are falling. Yet it is suprising what is growing in the frozen ground. While filling up the bird...
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Wow it’s March!!
I can hardly believe that March is here already! Mind you the last few days have been very spring like. I have seen a few very large bumble bees buzzing around. These will be females that have come...
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Intercropping and Catch Cropping.
If you are short of growing space or want to make the most of the space you have, there are a couple of growing practices that can help. These growing methods are commonly known as Intercropping and...
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How I grew over half a tonne of Veg on my allotment in 2013.. (Super-Blog...
So to continue… Spring Onions… As I said in the part 1 we love our onions. As well as the normal onions I also have a small bed of multiplying onions – like a spring onion but a bit smaller. I...
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