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Fruit and veg job checklist - week 18

By Gardeners' World on 23/11/2011 12:52:56

: beetroot, parsnips, turnips, onions, peas, mangetout and broad beans


Fruit and veg job checklist - week 22

By Gardeners' World on 23/11/2011 12:53:17

Sow seeds of dwarf beans in rows and climbing ones alongside canesPlant out crops being raised in pots under glass, such as marrows, courgettes and tomatoesCover soft fruits with netting to prevent birds eating themSow a few seeds of salad leaves


Fruit and veg job checklist - week 26

By Gardeners' World on 23/11/2011 12:53:34

Hang old CDs among crops and from fruit trees to scare away birdsWater beans and sweet peas as they start to flowerGive extra water to ripening soft fruits such as raspberries, gooseberries, strawberries and currantsFeed tomatoes and crops


Fruit and veg job checklist - week 32

By Gardeners' World on 23/11/2011 12:54:02

Check sweetcorn to see if it's ripe and ready to pick. This is when the tassels start to go brownPick beans and water crops regularlyLift onions once their tops die downPick plums as they ripenUse netting to protect blackberries, autumn raspberries


Fruit and veg job checklist - week 38

By Gardeners' World on 23/11/2011 12:54:29

herbs to bring into a porch or grow on the window sillSow broad beans and hardy peas for early crops next yearCheck pears regularly to harvest when perfectly ripeVegetables to sow now include winter radishes, lettuce and salad leaves, spinach, spring


Fruit and veg job checklist - week 44

By Gardeners' World on 23/11/2011 12:54:57

Pick ripe apples and pearsFinish harvesting marrows, squashes, onions and potatoesSow broad beans and hardy peasPlant out garlic clovesEarth up leeks to cover and blanch their stemsCut away fruited blackberry canes at soil level and tie in new ones


Fruit and veg job checklist - week 47

By Gardeners' World on 23/11/2011 12:55:10

Dig over empty borders and pile manure on top for the worms to pull undergroundLift and divide congested clumps of rhubarbCut down asparagus ferns and the tops of Jerusalem artichokesUse cloches to protect winter peas, beans and saladsLift and pot


Fruit & veg checklist

By Gardeners' World on 23/11/2011 12:55:14

to summerCover broad beans and peas with cloches for winter protectionLift and divide large clumps of rhubarbCut down Jerusalem artichokes then dig up and store tubers in buckets of dry compostPrune sideshoots on gooseberries back to about 5cmPile earth up


My favourite harvest recipes

By Kate Bradbury on 09/09/2011 17:26:21

.I love the way home-grown salads start off as a meagre collection of leaves in spring, then steadily grow as tomatoes, broad beans and other ingredients are ready to harvest. The watercress growing in my pond is always the first leaf crop I pick, followed


Harvesters and Grazers

By Jane Moore on 07/08/2009 17:44:11

. Then there are the Grazers, constantly picking and munching their way around the plot with a few baby broad beans here, a mouthful of lettuce leaves there.It's interesting spotting the types. Most of the old boys seem to be Harvesters, except for Vic. I don't think many


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