Crunch Baked Cauliflower

Crunch Baked Cauliflower

Recipes
This recipe combines cauliflower, cheese and breadcrumbs to produce a crisp, juicy and mouthwatering dish, which serves 2 to 4 people. Ingredients… 450g (15oz) cauliflower florets Salt and pepper to taste 2 tablespoons of grated Parmesan cheese 4 tablespoons of other cheese (such as Cheddar, or a cheese of your choice) 5 tablespoons of dry breadcrumbs 2 teaspoons unsalted butter,…
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Top tips for better beetroot!

Top tips for better beetroot!

Tips and Advice
Want better beetroot in 2016? Read on for our top tips… Sow small numbers regularly to avoid gluts. Roots take roughly 90 days to mature from sowing. Choose a sunny, sheltered site for your crop. In a crop rotation, beetroot are usually grouped with other roots such as carrots and also onions. If using older varieties you will find that…
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Veg plot in a bag

Veg plot in a bag

Tips and Advice
There is one product that has opened up the world of cultivating veg like no other and that’s the growing bag. One of the best inventions ever for gardeners has to be the growing bag and whatever size of plot you have the growing bag has a place. They are most often used in greenhouses to grow tomatoes and cucumbers,…
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Are you up to the Churchill Cup challenge?

Are you up to the Churchill Cup challenge?

News
Visitors to this year’s Blenheim Palace Flower Show are being invited to enter the ‘Churchill Cup’ hanging basket competition, when it returns to the Oxfordshire stately home this #summer Visitors to this year’s Blenheim Palace Flower Show are being invited to enter the ‘Churchill Cup’ hanging basket competition, when it returns to the Oxfordshire stately home this summer. Are you…
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Carrot & Coriander Soup

Carrot & Coriander Soup

Recipes
A delicious soup combining all the goodness of carrot and coriander. Colourful too! INGREDIENTS FOR THE SOUP: 4 medium-sized carrots 2 potatoes 1 medium onion 1 large clove garlic 1 bay leaf 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1 tablespoon chopped coriander 2 tablespoons of olive oil 1 vegetable stock cube Salt and pepper to taste FOR THE CROUTONS: 4 tablespoons of…
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Strawberries - Sweet Success

Strawberries – Sweet Success

Tips and Advice
With spring around the corner there’s no better time to make plans for a haul of sweet and succulent #strawberries. #BenedictVanheems recommends his favourite varieties and creates a strawberry bed It’s almost the start of another promising growing season. If there’s one way to bring on the excitement of summer plenty it’s to make preparations for that best-loved of home-grown…
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Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake

Recipes
#Carrotcake Simple to make, yet worthy of a gold star, this carrot cake really is a winner in the afternoon tea department. Rich, moist and flavourful, it’s an all-round favourite. Serves 8 • 155ml (5½fl oz) sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing • 230g (8oz) self-raising flour • 1 tsp baking powder • 2 tsp ground cinnamon • 1 tsp…
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MyGardenSchool launches Christmas competition

MyGardenSchool launches Christmas competition

News
#MyGardenSchool, the world’s first virtual horticulture school, has announced a Christmas competition entitling winners to a free four-week virtual course. This virtual school recently launched Sally Nex’s Advanced Vegetable Gardening and Self Sufficiency, and other courses such as Edible Gardening Made Easy and Organic Gardening. The MyGardenSchool Mystery Christmas Flower competition runs each week for four weeks. Every Monday a…
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