Grow Your Own Magazine

It was cooking that changed me from a flower, trees and shrub growing gardener into someone who wanted to grow their own fruit and vegetables.

When I see the wonderful choice of vegetables and salad crops that are available on market stalls and in greengrocers shops when I visit Italy it makes me want to weep at what we are offered in the supermarket. So I am back to trying to clear more of my plot to grow more veggies next year.

I have written down ideas for new recipes/food...

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Visited the allotment for the first time in over two weeks and thought the growth of weeds may have reclaimed the plot while I was away. Lots of annual weeds had popped up but I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to pull out the weeds after the recent wet weather.

Picked some blackberries, plums, runner beans, yellow beans and dug up some potatoes. Found a courgette had grown into a marrow while I was away. The green manure crop that I sowed in July is growing well; I need...

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