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Growing your own vegetables guide and downloads
If you’re starting out growing your own veg at home, in an allotment or sharing plots with friends, we’ve found a fabulous resource. ...
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How to grow garlic
Garlic can be planted in the autumn (October/ November) or Spring (December to February). It's incredibly easy to plant and very hardy so it's a great bet for novice vegetable gardeners. Garlic doesn't produce seeds: all you have to ...
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Planning a herb garden
One of the few compensations of the month of January is that you can always curl up in front of the fire, away from the filthy weather, reading seed catalogues. The wind may be howling, the snow may be drifting, or the rain may be beating ...
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How to make a table from a pottery pot
I'm sure I’m like most gardeners who have a million unused pots lying around or stacked up on the potting bench, and I also know I’m not likely to plant all of them! Hating to see a perfectly good pot go to waste, I came up with a ...
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How to make a three tiered planter
Here’s a great project to use up some of those empty pots lying around—it’ll take a couple of hours and only cost whatever you spend on plants (unless you have those lying around, too!). This 3-tiered planter will give you a ...
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A great tool for all vegetable gardeners
We're really thrilled to introduce, a fantastic online planning tool for vegetable gardeners >> GrowVeg.com It enables you to make a scale drawing of your vegetable plot or allotment and populate it with the vegetables you want ...
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Growing tomatoes upside down
Here at Make it and Mend it we've only recently discovered the practice of growing your tomatoes upside down. Sounds a bit barmy but it's hugely popular in the United States, where a product called the Topsy Turvy planter has had some ...
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Sowing vegetables in mid-summer
All of a sudden everyone seems to be growing vegetables. However large or small your plot or balcony, there’s room to grow something from herbs and chillies to potatoes, carrots and squashes of every variety. And if the bug has ...
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Dig for victory
This little film may be ancient and we no longer need to dig for victory, but the advice in this wartime video is on the button. There's a great visual demonstration of digging a plot, preparing the ground, sowing seeds, planting out ...
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