Planning on Growing Your Own Vegetables – Where to Start?

These days with large sites hard to come by and allotments much in demand, old gardeners or gardening junkies are no longer the sole exponents of GIY. No, many new entrants are young professionals, nature enthusiasts, people who are genuinely interested in getting closer to nature or reducing their dependency on mass market produce. Whilst [...]

Want to Grow Large Heads of Cabbage? Here’s the Best Method to Get it Done

Cabbage will do best planted where nothing else similar to this vegetable has planted over the past three years. Cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and cabbage fall into this category. The soil should drain well and does not need to be particularly rich in nutrients. They can be added later as needed.
Plant Time:
The two best times [...]

Grow Vegetables in Your Garden

We get pleasure from our gardens in many ways. Perhaps you like the simple life with simply flowers to look at, a table and chairs and lawn space for the kids to play. You may get pleasure from breeding your own plants and flowers and maybe even passing these onto friends and family or even [...]

Tips For Growing Winter Vegetables

Some people think that growing vegetables is something for only the spring and summer, however that is not the case. In fact one of the best things about having a vegetable patch or greenhouse in your garden is the ability to grow crops all the year round. Once your spring/summer harvest has been collected, you [...]

Sprouted Seeds – Super Food

Sprouted seeds or sprouts – not to be confused with the Brussel variety – are small plants, the next stage up from a seed. Sprouted seeds are young plants chock full of healthy minerals, vitamins, enzymes, proteins and fibre (practically all you need), and as they sprout their vitamin content increases. Because you eat them [...]

How can I get brussel sprouts to grow better?

My plant has been growing taller, but the leaves arent growing or spreading much.

how do you grow brussel sprouts and iceburg lettuce?

I am growing iceburg lettuce, and all it doe’s is grow in stalks straight up, how do you get them to form into ball shape

Growing Brussel sprouts???

I read that Brussel sprouts are a biennial. Does this mean that they will come back every other year or that they will only produce every other year? Also can I cut the huge leaves off??? any advice is greatly appreciated!

Windy Brussels

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What do you know about growing your own garden?

Find out more information on the different types of seeds and general recommendations on growing vegetables.
If you are interested in purchasing different types of seeds, then you can form a better idea by taking a look at an online garden catalog seed. Here, you will discover all the available seeds, whether we are talking about [...]

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