Find in this ring all manner of sites, personal, academic and commercial devoted to the topic of vegetable gardening , privately and (particularly) in allotments, which are UK and European community gardens dedicated to growing vegetables. They exist, too, in North American and perhaps all over the world, although they may be called something else. The sites in this ring cover all aspects of veggie- growing, including but not limited to caring for organic produce, and compost-making. Pictured on this page: a photo, by Hege Øygaren, of a family happily working in an allotment garden in Oslo, Norway. On the NavBar: a tomato vine, in a detail from a photo, taken October 28, 2006, by Joe Mabel, of the Picardo Farm, Wedgwood, Seattle, WA, that city's first P-Patch community garden.
Hi all of my cabbage and brocolli plants are just stalks this morning, having been eaten by something, it could be birds, i cant see any evidence of slugs, any ideas what i can do to prevent this happening again if i buy some more plants - thanks
Runner Beans & Cucumbers Cold Greenhouse Cucumbers & Peas Cold Greenhouse O.K. so having trawled through hours of information on the internet, read dozens of gardening books & catalogues, I've come to 2 conclusions about vegetable gardening. 1. The answers lie in the soil. 2. The weather controls almost everything, especially the...
1. Many plot holders on my allotments are currently busy using rotavators & strimmers on their plots, but how many of them wear sturdy footwear & eye protection whilst doing so?? 2. When sowing seeds remember the 3 basic rules, don't sow too early, don't sow too deeply and don't sow too thickly. 3. To prevent slugs getting into your pots/c...
1. Now is the time of year to mulch & feed your fruit trees/bushes to promote healthy growth. 2. If you have any plants suffering from Downy Mildew try the following remedy - mix 1 part milk with 9 parts water and spray the stems and tops of leaves with the solution. Reapply after rain. 3. Although Tomatoes will flourish in most so...
1. Now is the time of year to mulch & feed your fruit trees/bushes to promote healthy growth. 2. Click HERE to get yourself a free gardening journal. Its a PDF file in a blank monthly calendar format, to print off, with monthly tips. I like this one because of its simplicity. It may be too simple if your an expert gardener. 3. Although Tomatoe...
Last week the weather looked liked it would give us a glorious warm & sunny March. How things have changed in 48 hours. Shrouded in mist & fog for the last 2 days with the temperatures well down on last week, a visit to the plot yesterday was curtailed. After sowing a few Runner beans & Sweetcorn seeds into modules & pots inside my...
Only after the last tree has been cut down Only after the last river has been poisoned Only after the last fish has been caught Only then will you understand that money cannot be eaten &n...
1. Save your used tea bags/leaves & coffee grounds & add them to your Strawberry patch as a feed. 2. When its time to cut your Cabbages, make a X shaped cut in the end of the remaining stalk, this should re-grow giving you some extra greens. 3. If you use Hens eggs keep them in a container in the kitchen, they will keep longer than in the ...
Before I took over French Classified website and then also decided to write a book, I had plenty of time on my hands to potter about in the poly-tunnel. I had even planned to raise my seedlings in a heated propagator, so as to get a good early start. Well how life changes as I have been very busy trying to get new advertisers on French...
To while away the long winters months I decided to write a fictional novel about a family moving to France from the UK. Vantastic France follows the lives of the Taylor family as they sell up in the UK to start a new life in France. Forget the glossed over picture in some books, of this being a carefree time. When funds run out and work is hard to ...
Unlike last year, we have escaped the snow this winter so far. This morning is a gorgeous clear, but frosty day and it is zero degrees in the poly-tunnel . All that is left growing in there are peppers and chillies, which seen to be surviving the cold so far, due to their slightly harder foliage than tomatoes, which passed away a few weeks ago.&nb...
We have had a very mild winter so far here in Brittany, but this morning it was minus five, which will kill off a few bugs and diseases. The herb wheel has a few survivors in it, but the raised beds are looking pretty bare. The neighbours had to come and have a nose as I was taking some photos, they seem happy enough. It is such a glorious clear mo...
1. Save your used tea bags/leaves & coffee grounds & add them to your Strawberry patch as a feed. 2. When its time to cut your Cabbages, make a X shaped cut in the end of the remaining stalk, this should re-grow giving you some extra greens. 3. If you use Hens eggs keep them in a container in the kitchen, they will keep longer than in the ...
