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Karen Hall 37 posts 1 comments

    I have been interested in flowers and floral arrangements since my grandmother showed me how to press flowers and make bouquets. Now I am a mother myself and love spending time with my 2 girls showing them everything my dear old grandmother taught me.

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    Growing Radishes

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    Radishes are quick to crop and easy to grow meaning they are an ideal vegetable for children, new gardeners and experienced gardeners alike to grow. Radishes grow quickly and trouble-free in most situations, usually maturing within three…
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    Growing Parsnips

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    Not many people grow parsnips, over the last few years, parsnips have become less and less popular. I was just reading through one of the seed catalogues and the particular company now sells one variety of Parsnip, last year they sold 7. …
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    Growing Lettuce

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    Lettuce is such an easy vegetable to grow, extremely popular with gardeners who grow in containers and small vegetable gardens it is a must grow for every gardener. The fact that within 6 weeks you could be harvesting your vegetables…
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    Growing Leeks

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    Leeks are a fairly easy vegetable to grow and one of the mildest tasting vegetable in the onion family. Rather than producing a bulb, as most onions do, leeks are grown for their long stems with the white and pale green parts of the stems…
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    Growing Onions

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    When growing onions it is best to grow them from sets, these are immature bulbs that have been grown especially for planting. There are several advantages over growing from seeds, onion sets are much quicker growing, they are less likely…
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    Growing French Beans

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    French beans are delicious. The tasty beans are picked while still small and when cooked that size they taste out of this world. I don’t think British gardeners give this vegetable the praise it deserves, it still seems that runner beans…
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    Growing Swedes

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    This is one of the easiest vegetables to grow as sowing and looking after the plants is straightforward. Another reason why Swedes are grown so much is that they are ready for harvesting when no other crop is available. Very similar to…
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    Growing Turnips

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    Turnips are not the large woody vegetable people suggest they are, home-grown turnips are a really tasty vegetable that is easy to grow. The secret not to having ‘woody’ turnips is to harvest and eat them while they are still small.…
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