This weekend I decided it was the time to start forcing my rhubarb. The gardening books say you can start in January but as I live in the North decided to wait until the first week in February.
Step 1 - I covered the rhubarb crown with well rotted manure to help give it the best [...]
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This is what my garden is looking like at the moment on the 1st of Feb 2009. More photos in the My Garden Page!
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Choosing varieties of fruit and vegetables can be difficult but follow a few simple rules and you can’t go too wrong. Just because you can buy the seed in the garden centre it doesn’t mean it will be suitable for your garden. Each fruit and vegetable can be graded into a difficulty level so it’s [...]
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If your looking for a great snack while waiting for your fruit and veg to grow this should keep you satisfied. I like a slice of tea loaf with a cup of tea and lashings of butter. If you’ve got ingredients left from when you made your Christmas Pudding that your not sure how to [...]
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Now is the time of year to start thinking about potatoes and you have to do something very important before they go in the ground. This is a process called Chitting. When you buy your seed potatoes you need to set them out in trays or egg boxes end uppermost. Place the trays in the [...]
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If like me you have a little corner of the garden which doesn’t get much light and the soil isn’t that great! So what can you do? I would suggest planting a rhubarb crown as it will provide lush green foliage and provide one of the earliest new season foods from your garden.
Rhubarb isn’t fussy [...]

