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Category Archives: container growing

How to force strawberries

January 19, 2023

Imagine a bowl. Now fill it with gleaming, just-picked strawberries, perhaps just a little warm from the touch of the …

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Happy New Year!

September 1, 2022

Nope – not quite crazy (yet). It may be September and only barely autumn, but the veg grower’s new year starts here.

My list of crops to get under way for the new season right now includes autumn-sown onions, hardy broad beans, spring cabbages and salads – lots and lots of salads.

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Plant yourself a coronavirus veg garden

March 30, 2020

So here we all are, stuck at home with time on our hands, chaos in the supermarkets, trying not to …

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Herby adventures

September 10, 2016

I have been planting herbs. More to the point, I have been experimenting with herb containers: a gardening marriage made …

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Pick of the month: June

June 25, 2014

Pea ‘Oregon Sugar Pod’ To quote a well-known advert for a certain shop which used to sell clothing but now …

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A housewarming present

September 26, 2010

My poor container plants are all higgledy-piggledy. There are geraniums on the steps and a loquat tree teetering on the …

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Pocket-sized vegetables

August 1, 2010

Now, if the seed companies and garden centres and all those people trying to sell you stuff are to be …

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Bargain hunting

January 25, 2010

Off down the garden centre on a hot tip this weekend to find spring bulbs slashed to just 50p a …

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Return of the Rumble Memorial Pot

July 17, 2009

You know, I’m supposed to have a pretty container frothing with flowers just outside my front door to welcome visitors. …

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