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If winter comes can spring be far behind?
The main task for this weekend has got to be sitting down with the seed catalogues and planning next year’s layout for the garden. Apart from all that final tidying up, staking tall plants, last...
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Today’s the day we start the reservoir
We’ve been planning this for ages. We use about £8000 worth of mains water a year in our nursery so we’ve been planning to create a reservoir in the little valley in front of the house. It should hold...
View ArticlePlanting Leeks
We’ve just planted out some leeks in the glasshouse. As commercial growers we need to make sure that the spacing is right so as to deliver the optimum yield and make the plants easy to weed. We use a...
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Preserving what we produce
All gardeners know that point they reach when a really successful crop turns into a glut. You can’t eat any more of it yourself – you can’t give it away to your friends any more – and if you’re a...
View ArticleFresh Salads and Chard from the Glasshouses
Growing Winter Salads We’ve been busy getting the winter crops ready here. As you may imagine, during the peak months of July and August people have plenty of vegetables available in their own...
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Autumn Vegetables – where did the summer go?
The weather has finally settled down and some of our outdoor colleagues are getting vegetables available. The blight has been ferocious – I had to get the potatoes out of the forest garden a bit...
View ArticleThe great nematode famine.
Slug Control What a strange year this has been. Although we have the great advantage that growing under glass we can keep our soil in a controlled state, we still have to deal with pests. As organic...
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Cosmic Beetroot – a great recipe
Cosmic Beetroot This is a great recipe for beetroot. It goes really well with Curries – we used to used to serve it with Keema Korma. Simply boil the beetroot in the usual way then let it cool. It’s...
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What a busy time – open day on Saturday
. Since we wrote last we have been really busy finishing the biological controls road show, exhibiting at RHS Hampton Court and running a couple of open days. The first one was in June but we have...
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