Pippa’s gardening news
Pippa's gardening news and advice contains articles on how to Grow Veg, Growing Veg, Veg Seeds, and Veg Plants.
Potato Blight Alert
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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