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Tomato Costoluto Fiorentino

Tomato Costoluto Fiorentino Of all the dozen or more varieties of tomatoes we have grown this year at Garden Posts, my favourite by far in

Sowing Beans in Root Trainers

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Sowing Various Bean Varieties It’s that time of year again to get some beans going. This year I’m using these root trainers to try and

Pea Meteor Seeds

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Pea Meteor Seeds Once my pea ‘meteor’ crop was over, I left the last of the pods on the plant to dry out. As you

Garlic Rust

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Garlic Rust Having watched Gardner’s World last night and seen Monty’s garlic rust, I thought I would go and check my garlic this morning. This

Potato Flowers

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Potato Flowers It may only be a humble charlotte potato flower, but it’s impressive yellow stamen and mauve petals make for a pretty display in

Growing Carrots in Pots

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Carrot Eskimo F1 Hybrid I have never tried growing carrots in pots before, but last year a number of my carrots struggled in my veg

Climbing Bean Fasold

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Climbing Bean Fasold – Phaseolus vulgaris These climbing bean ‘Fasold’ were sown just 4 days ago in the greenhouse. It won’t be long before the

Growing Cucamelon

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Cucamelon (Melothria scabra) Growing Cucamelon from seed. This is a first for me. I have planted one seed per pot around half an inch deep

Cucumber Germination

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Cucumber Germination This is what my Cucumber Telegraph and Crystal Lemon Cucumber look like just 7 days after planting them. To germinate these cucumber seeds,

Tomatoes & Peppers

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Tomatoes & Peppers Today we harvested the remainder of our tomatoes and peppers. This is just one of the many bowls full of lovely fruit

Gherkin Harvest

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Gherkin Harvest You may remember my post in May about Growing Gherkins. Well they certainly grew well. I kept the plant in the greenhouse all

Charlotte Potatoes

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Charlotte Potatoes Despite all the rain we have had this year, this is one of the best crops of second early potatoes we have ever

Bean Harvest

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Climbing Beans and Runner Beans Having just returned from a few days away, it was wonderful to harvest a respectable crop of runner beans, climbing

Bean Flowers

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Climbing Bean Flowers Despite the non-stop rain and the lack of sunshine, the beans in the garden are doing pretty well. I planted a mixture

Peas in a Pod

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Peas in a pod You can almost taste how sweet these peas are from the picture. There is nothing better than popping down to the

Le Manoir Gardens

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Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons We visited Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons for lunch this weekend to celebrate my Wife’s birthday. The gardens

Growing & Pickling Gherkins

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Gherkin – Cucumis Sativus (same family as the cucumber) Today I was lucky enough to have been given this beautiful gherkin plant. As you can

Pea Kelvedon Wonder

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These Kelvedon Wonder (Pisum Sativum) pea seedlings were sown just a few weeks ago and are popping up beautifully.

Cabbage Seedlings

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These seedlings are the summer cabbage seeds I sowed 3 weeks ago. I think they are coming along rather nicely.

Sowing Summer Cabbage

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Now is the time to sow summer cabbage seeds. I am planting these into seed trays, although you could equally plant directly into the ground

Red Onion Sets

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As its warmed up a little now, I decided to plant out some of my red onion sets. The sets, in this case, red onion

Chitting Potatoes

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To chit or not to chit? That is the question. Personally I have tried both chitting and not chitting potatoes with relatively similar results, however,

Mange Tout

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We arrived back home today from a week away to find a wonderful crop of mange tout awaiting us. Once picked, the crop disappeared very

Sweetcorn

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I have just been to take a look at our sweetcorn plants. I’m not convinced our corn on the cob are going to be plate

Tomato Blight

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This is how my tomatoes looked just a few days ago. This is how they looked today. This is tomato blight or Phytophthora infestans. Tomato

Allium Galore

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In October 2010 I bought some Garlic Solent Wight and Shallot Griselle from Suttons Seeds. I also bought some red onion. I planted all the