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Fruit, Veg & Herbs Gardening Articles
Please take a look at this BBC film
Posted by Snowdrop
Monday 23rd February 2009
Category: Fruit, Veg & Herbs
Please take a look at this inspiring film about our food production It effects everyone even if you don't harvest your own food. The film looks at arable, livestock, through to fruit and veg. Read More
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Gardening as an answer to global food shortages?
Posted by callumsaunders
Tuesday 21st April 2009
Category: Fruit, Veg & Herbs
A friend of mine pointed me in the direction of an article in the Sunday supplements this weekend. Self-sufficiency is clearly NOT on the agenda for most modern governments – how far can we go on our ow... Read More
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early mid march; the sowing of parsnips; very eratic germination, can take upto and over a month to show...for the last 6 years i have had good results by using this method; a sheet of kitchen paper onto a saucer, seed spread evenly on top, keep mois... Read More
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snowdrop, this is for you ; the plastic drinking cups come in sleeves of 100 and available from the pound shop......... mick Read More
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anyone interested i have a few photos of some of my show veg taken this year, they are on my journal section !! plus im not as good as i thought i was............ plus cradleymike has some photos from our show from this year on his gallery ! Read More
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i do a lot of trial and error and this year tried 5 different varieties from "select seeds" , 2 early varieties ; brigitte f1 and brilliant f1, these were sown early march. the next sowing was mid march; millennium f1, cascade f1 and cavalier f1. th... Read More
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Blight resistant tomatoes
Posted by Lancelot
Wednesday 01st October 2008
Category: Fruit, Veg & Herbs
Earlier this year I mentioned in an answer to a question on the subject of blight that I have been very happy with the variety Ferline but was also trying Legend from T+M. I said I would report back Well, as expected, Ferline came through. A good cr... Read More
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