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SOWING AND GROWING PARSNIPS

Now is the time to be sowing your parsnips for the winter.  These are one of my all time favourite vegetables!  They can be tricky but well worth the effort and they really do respond to having well prepared soil and being kept weed free over there long growing season

If your soil is heavy its always a good idea to incorporate some grit or “Rock Dust” into the growing deb and use a proper rake to create a fine tilth for sowing

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WIRE FRAME SUPPORT FOR FRUIT GROWING

If you are going to grow raspberries, blackberries or any hybrid berries you will need to grow them with a support.  The simplest way to do this is using posts and wire.  In my film i show you the easiest way to create a long lasting and sturdy support.

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How to Plant Apples Trees

Fed up with tasteless supermarket apples all you need is a Wall or Fence and it couldn’t be easier.In this film i plant a container grown trained apple,which means it takes up little space makes a boundary productive and looks wonderfully architectural,with the advantage that as its container grow you can plant at anytime of the year.

http://www.blackmoor.co.uk

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MARCH-THINGS TO SOW IN THE GREENHOUSE AND GARDEN

Time to get your greenhouse or cold frame  working for a living,even if there not heated there are lots of vegetables that benefit from a protected start,and a few produce bigger yields if you ‘multiple seed’ then.

If you haven’t already got you seeds or young plants ordered still plenty of time to get those chooses made

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RESOURCES—TOMATOES

Tomatoes are the favorite summer crop for most gardeners and if you follow some simple steps will reward you with a taste that you just can not  buy. These films take you through a seasons growing using a variety of techniques and cover how to feed Tomatoes and some of the preventative measures you can take to avoid problems.

1.Starting with Tomatoes

2.How to sow Tomatoes for great germination

3.Tomato seedlings how to pot on

4.How to plant out Tomatoes

5.Tomatoes  the vital importance of ‘Pinching Out’

6.Spraying Tomatoes Organically with “MILK”!!!

7Tomatoes Preventative Organic spraying against Blight

8.Tomatoes    Truss Supports ? On a Tomato !!

9. Tomato Feeding -How to balance nutrients

10.Tomatoes Late Summer update  Defoliate

11. Bettys Tumbling Tomatoes

If you haven’t decided which variety’s of tomatoes to grow this year you may want to watch these films first

A.  Those Tomatoes that simply taste the best

B. Exciting Tomato recommended by Raymond Blanc

 

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