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Potato Blight Alert

Monday, July 19, 2010
If you grow your own vegetables including potatoes and outdoor tomatoes, watch out ,the weather in many parts of the country (and sadly in my own garden) is perfect for potato blight infection.

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Hose Pipe Ban hits Grow Your Own

Thursday, July 08, 2010
Growing your own vegetables? A fan of any sort of Grow Your Own, or indeed simply growing your own plants of any sort? Then the new hose pipe ban that comes into force on 9th July in the North West of England, could wreck havoc in your garden

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BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time Garden Party

Thursday, June 24, 2010
This weekend it is the Gardeners' Question Time Summer Garden Party at Sparsholt College.....and I can't wait

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Vegetable Plants are Growing so well

Thursday, June 17, 2010
Growing your own vegetables is just so rewarding, even if the pigeons are driving me mad !

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Slugs and Snails

Friday, June 11, 2010
If you grow your own vegetables, Slugs and snails are the bane of your life.

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Plastic Plants in a Much Respected Garden Centre!

Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Call me a stick in the mud, but why oh why does my local garden centre, part of a well-respected 'chain' of up-market centres, now sell plastic plants??!

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Growing Your Own veg made easy talk at Washington , near Storrington, Sussex

Sunday, May 02, 2010
On Saturday 19th June I'll be talking Grow Your Own at The Storrington Horticultural Society's event being held to raise much-needed funds for the Scanner Appeal and Friends of Worthing Hospital

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Let it Grow Event in Skipton

Saturday, May 01, 2010
I'm spending a day talking grow your own veg in Skipton to be at the brand new 'Let it Grow' event.

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Tomatoes, peppers and aubergines

Tuesday, April 27, 2010
If you grow your own home grown vegetables, like me you'll already be starting to feel that sense of achievement. Tomatoes, peppers, courgettes, onions, garlic, beans....and a whole lot more are just around the corner

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Processionary moth caterpillars

Thursday, April 22, 2010
The caterpillars of the processionary moths may be fascinating to watch, their behaviour quite unlike anything I have seen before......but beware!

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Pippa on BBC Garderners' World

This must be the first year that I've harvested a crop of garlic with no traces of rust: not a pustule in sight.

I adore home-grown courgettes. They lack that slightly bitter taste and spongy texture you can get with supermarket specimens.

This year we held our annual Gardeners' Question Time Garden Party at our GQT garden at Sparsholt College near Winchester, Hampshire.

Well, here I sit in the backstage area of the main theatre at BBC Gardeners' World Live [...] Earlier we recorded the first of several mini Gardeners' Question Time programmes.

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