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Tips for Growing Tasty Tomatoes.

From seed sowing, disease prevention, watering, feeding, supporting and pinching out you will find all the tomato tips you need

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Growing Herbs Outdoors – Tips for Better Crops

Some herbs can be difficult to grow in the open garden but it is worth persisting. Here are some simple tips to help get bigger and better crops together with some perennial herb plants to start you off.

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Growing Nasturtium as a Food Crop

Watercress is a variety of Nasturtium and makes a soup and a vegetable whilst the floral Nasturtiums we think about has tangy peppery leaves edible flowers and seeds you can crunch or pickle. A versatile food crop to grow in you veg plot of streamside

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Cure Bitter Pit on Apple Trees

Dark depressions in the skin of your apples and brown sports dotted throughout the flesh are typical of bitter pit on your apples. Cure Bitter Pit on Apples with these tips and good cultivation methods

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Forcing Strawberries the Old Fashioned Way

The old ways of forcing Strawberries do not cost the airmiles that our imported fruit now consume. Nor do they sacrifice flavour for an early crop. Old gardeners fashioned different ways to get Strawberries 4-8 weeks early than your normal summer crops.

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Blight Buster Potatoes

Do not let blight be a potato crop buster. Check out theses blight busting tips

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Winter Squash From Seed

It is nearly time to plant squash seeds for winter soups

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Growing Fennel for Home Cooking

Fennel is a fine herb and anise tasting vegetable that you can grow and cook at home from a simple packet of seeds..

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Forced Rhubarb Growing in Yorkshire

What can you say about Gods Own County supplying Gods own fruit-pie-filling in the form of early forced Rhubarb? Most definitely your own rhubarb grown in your garden, with a bit of horse muck for added flavour, will far exceed the watery stuff you can buy at supermarkets. Forced in the Yorkshire Rhubarb triangle and [...]

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Juniper – Root and Branch Review

Juniper berries are used to flavour good gin and juniper wood to smoke your meat. Easy to grow but don’t rush to pick the berries.

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