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be careful what you wish for!

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

A while back i was wishing for a little rain as my lottie had cracks forming [one of the pit falls of heavy London clay] I think i wished a little too hard 
It hasn’t stopped chucking it down all week…
The only good point  is iv managed to catch up on my blog [...]

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potato

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

I think iv  not mentioned this before. Back in March i popped into a grow bag a couple of potatoes that had been lurking too long in my veg rack and had sprouted.. I wanted to see if i could get a crop from them.
While i was down at my lottie yesterday i noticed the [...]

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Germination Temperatures for Vegetables

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

 Minimum (°C)                                                                       Preferred (°C)
bean - broad 5                                                                              8
bean – french & runner 8-10                                                      16-30
beetroot 4                                                                                  10-30
broccoli/calabrese 4                                                                   7-35
cabbage 4                                                                                   7-35
carrot 4                                                                                       7-30
cauliflower 4                                                                               7-30
celeriac 10                                                                                    15+
celery 4                                                                                      15-21
chilli 18                                                                                        21+
courgette 16                                                                               21-35
cucumber 16                                                                               16-35
eggplant 16                                                                                24-32
kale 5                                                                                            8+
leek 7                                                                                            12
lettuce 2                                                                                     4-27
Mange tout 10                                                                           12-24
marrow 16                                                                                 21-35
onion 2                                                                                     10-35
parsley 4                                                                                   10-30
parsnip [...]

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minipop sweetcorn

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Why did i assume that these plants would look different from a normal sweetcorn plant. Being mini, i had visions of them dangling from a bushy plant and me picking them off… “stupid women”
Does anyone know how many you would roughly get from one plant ?

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oca update

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

These have such pretty leaves; i find them fascinating …
I planted these near the path, which in hindsight was a mistake after reading they will collapse - “thats normal” and will spread. Whoops..  [Early on, they'll not need much growing space but later they take up a fair amount of room, so choose your growing [...]

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