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Sowing Carrots

15th April 2016 Tony Flanagan Blog, Tips and Advice

Here are a few tips you might find useful for sowing carrots The main sowing period is March through to June, though I have sown in July too with good results Don’t sow in soil that has been freshly manured or your carrots will fork If sowing in early spring, warm the ground up a little by covering it with…

Oh no! Leggy Seedlings!

23rd March 2016 Tony Flanagan Tips and Advice

Do your seedlings look like this? It’s not unusual if we start sowing indoors early that we get leggy seedlings I’ve often had this problem with tomato and pepper seedlings. So keen to get sowing and making a head start! Anyone else want to plead ‘guilty’? Seedlings become leggy if they have insufficient light and so therefore go in search…

The Kelsae Makes a Comeback!

14th March 2016 Steve Ott News

Onion the Kelsae makes a comeback as young plants from D.T Brown For long a favourite with many exhibitors and other keen vegetable growers, Onion The Kelsae was virtually eradicated when the seed crop was wiped out by a freak hailstorm in September 2016. But now mail order kitchen garden specialist D. T. Brown is able to offer the renowned…

New Microgreens To Try

2nd March 2016 Steve Ott Reviews

The selection of fast-growing microgreens just got even bigger with these new introductions for 2016 If your forward planning for spring 2016 wasn’t all it might have been, seedling salad crops offer a quick way of closing the ‘hungry gap’. Alongside the wide range of leaf crops that you can grow as microgreens, there are some intriguing new contenders to…