START OFF A VEGETABLE PATCH
A well-placed vegetable plot will be positioned so that it is in full sun for most of the year, especially from early March to late November. Some vegetables such as Brussels Sprouts continue to grow and need sun in the winter so take this into ... [... more]
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Growing artichokes
Globe artichokes are one of the tastiest vegetables you can grow, and are as much at home in the flower garden as they are in the vegetable patch. Follow our guide to growing your own. Improve the soil by adding well-rotted manure and sprinkle ... [... more]
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Grow crops in pots
You may not have room for a vegetable patch or time for an allotment, but you can plant up pots from early spring onwards with edible crops and enjoy fresh, tasty, homegrown produce all summer. Lots of varieties are happy in pots if you look ... [... more]
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Growing leeks
With their compact, bolt upright growth, leeks are the ideal crop to squeeze into bare patches on an allotment or in a border. Here's how to grow this stalwart of the vegetable patch. Dig the soil for planting in the winter, adding plenty of ... [... more]
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Beta vulgaris 'Charlotte'
An attractive plant for the vegetable patch or potager, producing bright red stems and large, red-veined leaves. It tastes delicious when the fresh leaves are eaten young in a salad. Swiss chard is easy to grow from seed and makes a colourful ... [... more]
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Super Seeder
 The Super Seeder is suitable for all types of vegetable seeds simply fill up the hopper and work along your prepared vegetable patch. The Super Seeder distributes your seeds accurately and evenly and has an adjustable furrow depth to suit all types of see [... more]
£29.99
Green Fingers UK |
Lettuce Webbs Wonderful Seeds
Still the premier garden lettuce in most people's vegetable patch this variety has large wrinkled leaves with a big tight centre of crisp white leaves. It is outstanding whether the summer is wet or dry and always slow to run to seed. Sow thinly from spri [... more]
£1.29
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Burgon and Ball Pink Gardening Twine In A Tin
Tying back the plants protecting the leaves from the frost lining up the carrots and the turnips in your vegetable patch and now you can have fun doing it with a lovely pink tin of twine. Maybe it's a gift for granny mum or your wife - a lovely gir [... more]
£6.00
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Kathy Henderson
Gram and Joe love to spend time together taking care of the vegetable patch, but it takes a lot of patience. There's digging time, planting time, weeding time, watering time, even... Gram and Joe are great friends, and they love to spend time ... [... more]
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