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Our seeds and potatoes arrived… we ordered them through our allotment association from DT Brown (works out so much cheaper if you do this!).
So we’ve got:
Purple Moldovan Garlic (the bigger bulbs in the pic, the others are supermarket garlic which we’ll experiment with)
Radish – Scarlet Globe (plus two half packs left over from last year [...]
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This is what we were up against yesterday! Not too bad as most of it was that annoying ground covering tangly stuff and the half-dead weeds pulled up quite easily!
In the foreground are our leeks – now lifted and mostly eaten (Chicken & Leek Pie and Roasted Veg) – and our courgette ‘Ambassador’, which produced [...]
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Sorry, very bad joke for Ferrero Rocher lovers, but our courgette plant (‘Ambassador’) is doing great and we will be spoilt with this crop
According to The Vegetable Expert book we’re ready to crop some of these – it’s recommended that courgettes are cut when they get to 4 inches to encourage more flowering, so [...]
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