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If this is the year for your first vegetable garden, congratulations! You’re about to embark on a wonderful venture of discovery and fun. You may have some setbacks – even very experienced gardeners do – but, most setbacks are very minor in comparison to the rewards that most of us get from gardening.



Here are my suggestions for all you starting out this year …



Start Relatively Small – For most beginners, smaller is better.… Continue

So it's been 6 weeks or so (seems a lot longer!) since I built my raised beds and started growing various things. The weather has been very mixed and we had a week of very cold and wet weather which resulted in a few casualties - outdoor cucumber plant, courgette that I'd grown from seed and a mange tout plant - so a few lessons learnt. Anyway things have warmed up a wee bit and things are starting to really get growing outside.



My raised beds are positioned at the top end of the… Continue

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If you'd love to do a little at-home gardening but don't have much space to do your planting, a simple gutter garden might be the perfect… Continue