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The trouble with starting your tomatoes and peppers as extravagantly early as I have this year (yep, already sprouted and growing away. Keep up, keep up…) is that the awkward patch – those ‘too big for the windowsill, too cold … [ Read More ]
Featured Blogger: Undercover With Bob Flowerdew
Some of the greenhouses’ most delightful but seldom known gems are the Zaluzianskya, Night Phloxes. These are rather misfortunately named so they now appear almost last in any seed or plant list. By then one’s attention may have wandered, or … [ Read More ]
Featured Blogger: John Walker
Letting the GM genie out of its biotech bottle hasn’t just changed day-to-day life on our allotments, it’s now taking over control of life itself. They’ll be here soon. The moment – preceded by a warning bleep – that the … [ Read More ]
Featured Blogger: Jean Vernon
Things have changed a lot since I did my degree in botany many, many moons ago. In those (prehistoric) days research into plant genetic engineering wasn’t really funded by big business, it was championed by small university science labs around … [ Read More ]
Featured Blogger: Undercover With Bob Flowerdew
You certainly need a heated greenhouse to crop this beauty, but not to grow it. The papaw plant is easy to grow, even on a sunny windowsill, well at first. You see this is one of the fastest growing of … [ Read More ]
Featured Blogger: Matthew Biggs Diary
By the end of February you should be thinking about ‘chitting’ your potatoes. ‘Chitting’ or sprouting first or second early potatoes by allowing several shoots to develop before planting, encourages faster growth, heavier crops and is a way of beating … [ Read More ]
