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Grow Your Own Potatoes	Sunday, January 31, 2010
I'm a total addict when it comes to home grown potatoes. And the great thing is they are SO easy to grow, and their taste and texture is tremendous. read more >>

Snow, icicles and rock-solid soil and vegetables	Sunday, January 10, 2010
Many gardens and indeed gardeners have been hit by by the extreme weather read more >>

John Cushnie	Saturday, January 02, 2010
John Cushnie, my friend and long-time colleague on BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time, has died and will be missed by so many millions of gardeners. read more >>

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> Harvesting garlic

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

> Growing courgettes

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

> Pests and problems

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

> Gardeners’ Question Time

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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Grow Your Own Potatoes

Snow, icicles and rock-solid soil and vegetables

John Cushnie

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