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Daily Series: Gardening Tip | Did You Know Spinach Makes Its Own Seeds?

🌱 Daily Series: Gardening Tip | Did You Know Spinach Makes Its Own Seeds? I genuinely love discovering things like this in the garden! 🌱❤️ This is our actual spinach from our garden, and what you’re looking at is the plant producing seeds. I think most of us see spinach starting to bolt and a

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🌱 Did You Know Spinach Makes Its Own Seeds?

🌱 Did You Know Spinach Makes Its Own Seeds? We grow spinach every year, and Mum has a simple way of making sure we have seeds ready for the next season. Instead of harvesting every plant, she leaves one to mature and go to seed. Once the plant has dried and the seeds are ready, we collect the

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Daily Series: Gardening Tip | How to Ripen Green Tomatoes

🍅 Daily Series: Gardening Tip | How to Ripen Green Tomatoes I’ve always thought the best place for green tomatoes was a sunny windowsill… but apparently it’s not the sunlight doing the work! 😳🍅 Tomatoes naturally produce ethylene gas, which helps them ripen. What they really need is a slightl

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We Call This Bathu… What’s Its English Name?

🌿 We Call This Bathu… What’s Its English Name? This plant grows wild in lots of gardens, but in our family it has always been something we cook with. Mum knows it as bathu in Punjabi, and we use it as one of the greens in traditional dishes like saag. 💚 I love how one plant can mean comple

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🌿 Garden Overwhelm | Where Do I Start?

🌿 Garden Overwhelm | Where Do I Start? Some days the garden feels peaceful and relaxing… and other days you walk outside, look at everything that needs doing and genuinely don’t know where to begin. 😅 That was me today. I stood there looking at the mess, had three cups of tea, and still ha

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🌸 3 Flowers Still Thriving Despite the Dry Weather

🌸 3 Flowers Still Thriving Despite the Dry Weather After weeks with very little rain—and two weeks away from the allotment—I was surprised to see that these three flowers were still bringing plenty of colour to the garden: 🌹 Roses 💗 Fuchsias 🧡 Non-stop begonias They have not come through

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🌱 Daily Series: Gardening Tip 🧑‍🌾 Dahlia Markers

🌱 Daily Series: Gardening Tip 🧑‍🌾 Dahlia Markers I used to plant my dahlias and tell myself, “I’ll definitely remember where they are.” 😅 Fast forward to spring… the tubers are completely hidden underground and suddenly you’re guessing where to dig! Now I always place a simple plant label

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Midweek Bloom | Dahlia

🌸 Midweek Bloom | Dahlia This week’s bloom is extra special because this beautiful dahlia has returned from last year. There’s something so rewarding about seeing a favourite plant come back for another season. After all the waiting, it has opened into this stunning flower with layers of deep

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Daily Series: Gardening Tip 🧑‍🌾 Fake Winter Seeds

🌱 Daily Series: Gardening Tip 🧑‍🌾 Fake Winter Seeds Did you know some seeds actually need a “fake winter” before they’ll grow? ❄️🌱 It sounds strange, but many perennial flowers won’t germinate until they’ve experienced a period of cold. In nature, this happens over winter. At home, you can re

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POV: Filming with Mum never goes exactly to plan…

😂 POV: Filming with Mum never goes exactly to plan… You normally only see the finished gardening videos, but behind the scenes there are forgotten words, repeated takes, interruptions and plenty of laughter. Sometimes the simplest video takes far more attempts than expected, but these are oft

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🌱 Daily Series: Gardening Tip 🧑‍🌾 Grow Your Own Marrow

🌱 Daily Series: Gardening Tip 🧑‍🌾 Grow Your Own Marrow Seeds One marrow. Over 100 seeds. Potentially an entire crop for next year… completely free. Seed saving is one of the easiest gardening habits to start, and it can save you money every season. Let your marrow fully mature, collect

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🌱 How to Save Marrow Seeds for Free

🌱 How to Save Marrow Seeds for Free A customer recently asked whether we sell marrow seeds, which gave us the perfect idea for today’s gardening tip. You can actually save your own seeds for free by leaving one marrow on the plant until it becomes fully mature. We’re allowing ours to stay on

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🌱 Daily Series: Gardening Tip New Shrub Propagation.

🌱 Daily Series: Gardening Tip New Shrub Propagation. 🌿 I always thought the only way to get more shrubs was to buy them… until I discovered layering. It’s one of the easiest propagation techniques you can learn, and the best part is… It costs absolutely nothing. Instead of taking cuttin

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🌱 Grow Your Own Series | Marrow Harvest

🌱 Grow Your Own Series | Marrow Harvest There’s something so satisfying about walking through the garden and discovering what’s ready to harvest. Today we started by picking a couple of marrows… then found another… and another… until we’d harvested seven in total! It’s amazing how easily they

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Daily Series: Gardening Tip Tomato Vines

🌱 Daily Series: Gardening Tip Tomato Vines 🍅 This is one of those gardening lessons that completely changed how I’ll grow tomatoes from now on. For years I planted my tomatoes in buckets and spent the whole season trying to keep them under control. I was constantly pruning, tying stems bac

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🌱 Grow Your Own | Sweetcorn Progress Update 🌽

🌱 Grow Your Own | Sweetcorn Progress Update 🌽 Today’s garden walk brought us a lovely surprise—several of our sweetcorn plants appear to be growing three cobs on one plant. We usually expect one cob, and sometimes two, so seeing three has been really interesting. Even Mum, with all her years

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🌱 Grow Your Own | Peppers & Aubergine Progress Update

🌱 Grow Your Own | Peppers & Aubergine Progress Update Today’s garden walk is all about checking the progress of our peppers and aubergines. 🫑🍆 One pepper plant already has around seven peppers growing on it, while the aubergines are covered in flowers, so hopefully the fruit will start ap

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Daily Series: Gardening Tip Canna Lily

🌱 Daily Series: Gardening Tip 🌼 I used to think deadheading my canna lilies was always the right thing to do… until I discovered what happens next. When a canna lily finishes flowering, many gardeners remove the spent blooms straight away. But if you leave them on the plant a little longer, s

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🌼 Plant Spotlight | Canna Lily

🌼 Plant Spotlight | Canna Lily Did you know canna lilies make seeds? 🌱 After the flowers have finished blooming, canna lilies produce seed pods. As they mature and turn brown, they dry out and split open to reveal the seeds inside. Collecting these seeds is a rewarding way to grow more can

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Watering Routine

💧 I used to think watering in the evening was the best time… until I learned what happens overnight. After a hot day, it’s tempting to reach for the watering can in the evening. But for many plants, watering first thing in the morning is actually the better choice. Here’s why: 🌞 Morning wa

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