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A gardener in the making

10th January 2018 Steve Ott Blog

Part time KG helper and full time journalism student Theo Osborn talks about his experience helping the team with some sowing and filming Growing up, my mum would try to make me tend to some of the gardening, though it was never the most exciting use of my time. I’d always be argumentative, gardening seemed like the be all, end…

Nothing like a bit of beetroot!

25th April 2017 Tony Flanagan Tips and Advice

Beetroot is a bit of a favourite with many of us and so easy to grow too! If you don’t have a lot of space, they do well in pots. Containers should be about 22cm(9in) deep and 22cm(9in) wide. Fill with multipurpose compost and sow seeds thinly 2.5cm(1in) deep, April through to July. Water in and then water regularly, especially…

Oh so simple salad leaves!

28th March 2017 Tony Flanagan Tips and Advice

Seed companies offer so many salad leaf varieties these days and the good news is that you can be picking them all summer long and beyond if you sow little and often. One of the simplest ways to grow salad leaves is in pots or troughs, making sowings every couple of weeks from March through to the end of August.…

Finger-licking peppers

21st February 2017 Tony Flanagan Tips and Advice

Sowing seeds can be fiddly at the best of times. Chilli and sweet pepper seedlings aren’t too bad but even so I still find them tricky. What I find easiest is to lick my forefinger and then press gently on the seed. It seems to stick and then I can then transport it to the compost. A little movement over…

Who needs a seed tray?

14th February 2017 Tony Flanagan Tips and Advice

Within reason you can grow anything in just about anything. I tend to keep the plastic cartons that come with tomatoes and use them instead of seed trays – they have ready-made holes for a start and, as the seeds emerge, they allow in plenty of light. So here are some ‘Costoluto Fiorentino’ tomato seeds I sowed last Sunday. They…

Mudketeers Diary – Feb 12th 2017

14th February 2017 Tony Flanagan Blog

Sowing chillies Spent Sunday morning sowing chillies, surely one of the best plants to grow. I love the shape of the leaves, the flowers and, of course, the fruit. And they come in such amazing varieties – grow for heat, flavour, or as an ornamental (all three actually). I’m starting these off in a heated propagator – temperature about 25C…