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10 Best Tomatoes To Sow Right Now
The Ten Best Tomatoes To Sow Right Now This list will give you a chance to get away from the rightly popular, but very ubiquitous, Gardeners Delight variety of tomatoes and try something different – as well as tasty! All of the seeds can be bought from the wonderful wonderful wonderful Real Seeds – do support them in their work…! Grushovska – big pink tomatoes, very tasty Aurora – from Siberia (yes, really!) Makes great sauces and germinates well at low temperatures. Tangerine – as the name suggests, it is a brilliant orange. Farenheit – this tomato must be …
10 Plants You Didn’t Know You Can Eat
Tonight we will be presenting our latest garden talk ‘Diluted’ to a local garden club here in Essex. Essex is a dry county, the typical British rain and grey skies seeming to miss it completely leaving us, as residents, with lots of sunshine and warmth. It also means there are a range of plants that will struggle to grow in the dry conditions, needing help from a hose or watering can filled with water – and this is never more so than in the vegetable garden, where too much water can kill off your seedlings, or too little means they …
Desert Island Plants… by Modern Mint
Desert Island Plants… by Modern Mint When the amazing Beth Chatto was asked about the plants she could not live without, she said, “Amelanchier lamarckii… Good form in winter, lovely foliage in spring or autumn, prettier than many cherries (daintier) – and interesting longer.” When they asked the brilliant Christopher Lloyd the same question, one of his choices was a dahlia, “ ‘Hillcrest Royal’ is a spiky medium cactus of brilliant purple, not quite magenta colouring.” In 2009 Gardeners’ World asked the nation for their favourite flower. The result? We chose the rose. Now, for the 2016 Chelsea Fringe, we …