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Community Garden {Feburary}

February 23, 2009
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New Routes: January 2009 by Jill Coleman     One of the nicest things about getting through the post-Christmas/new year doldrums is seeing the days start to get fractionally lighter and longer because you know that the year has turned and that Spring
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{Vegalicious} Pumpkin, red lentil and date soup

February 14, 2009
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Pumpkins are one of our favourite vegetables. They can be used in so many different ways, as salads, soups, parfaits and pies. It’s important for us to grow enough pumpkins and winter squash to take us through the winter months.
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Why bother? Heirloom seeds

February 10, 2009
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Patrick from blog Bifurcated Carrots makes the case for using open pollinated seeds. When you buy commercial garden seeds, there are two main types, Open Pollinated (OP) and F1 hybrids. OP seeds have one clear obvious advantage. If properly done, you
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Green Lane Allotments {January #3}

January 28, 2009
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Green Lane Allotments Diary Weekend 27 January         On the plot   Paid a brief visit to the plot to gather vegetables for the week. Harvested leeks, cabbage, carrots and parsnips.
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Recipe Blog: Vegalicious

January 22, 2009
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Ever been stuck for recipe inspiration during a glut of vegetables? Now, thanks to monthly blogs from the team at Vegalicious, the step from potager to plate never felt so easy, or fun.     Chris, who runs the blog with her husband Harald, gives us a
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{Vegalicious} Pasta with kale, white beans and almonds

January 22, 2009
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Vegalicious January 2009: Pasta with Kale, white beans and almonds     Kale, also known as Borecole (Dutch: Boerenkool), is a typical winter vegetable here in the Netherlands and Germany. Traditionally it is used in a dish called stamppot. But there
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::cress heads:: by Helen Lehndorf

January 20, 2009
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::cress heads:: originally uploaded by Stripy Sock Studio Shame on any gardener who chucks their eggshells in the bin. They are even more useful once you have eaten their contents. Leave them in your compost heap and they will help counteract excess
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Green Lane Allotments {January #2}

January 20, 2009
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Green Lane Allotments Diary Weekend 13 January
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Community Garden {January}

January 20, 2009
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New Routes: January 2009 by Jill Coleman     New Routes has had a slow start to the New Year. Although we were on site all the way up until Christmas Eve, we shut down for a week and the end of December and were due to return in the first week of Jan
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Seed viability

January 19, 2009
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If you’ve got a packet of parnsip seeds languishing in your drawer from several years ago, think twice before sowing. Some seeds (parsnips in particular) need sowing fresh. And just so you don’t make any mistakes, here is the Fennel and F
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Green Lane Allotments {January #1}

January 17, 2009
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Green Lane Allotments Diary Weekend 6 January  
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Sneak a leek

January 15, 2009
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These glorious leeks, with a lovely long white shaft, were snapped at the superb Ockley farm shop in Surrey. If you’re planning for an early harvest of leeks in August or September of this year, you’ll need to sow seeds in February, so ge
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