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How to grow Perfect Parsnips
Parsnips are a good vegetable for the gardening beginners as they require very little work and are easy to grow. Read on for full growing instructions.
How to Grow the best Salad Leaves
Growing Salad Leaves Growing your own salad leaves is SO easy and a great way to start if you want to grow your own food. The best thing about salad...
Mastering Cucumber Growing: Female vs. Male Flowers
Growing Cucumbers Like many other veg, cucumbers you grow yourself have much more flavour than those from a supermarket. They can grow outside, in the ground, or inside in pots and...
How to Grow Delicious Brussels Sprouts
Brussels Sprouts are delicious if cooked well – home growing can convert even the most ardent sprout avoider! There are many really tasty and reliable F1 Hybrids available, which freeze...
Potato growing in the garden - a step by step guide
About the Potato Potatoes can be so cheap to buy, so why bother to grow your own? One reason is taste - the chance to get tasty tatties that are...
How to Grow Leeks from seeds - in the UK
What are they? Leeks, which are famous as the Welsh national emblem, are related to the onion but easier to grow. They are a must for vegetable growing as their...
Garden Pests & Diseases: Garden Slugs and snails
Slugs & Snails: what are we dealing with? Snails There are around 120 species of snail in the UK. These range from 1mm Dot snails (punctum pygmaeum) to the Roman...
Christmas Leftovers Recipe
The quick and easy leftover recipe to make Brussel Sprouts EVERYONE will like. This fast supper dish is one you will use year after year.
Sustainable Gardening - the use of Bamboo
Sustainable Gardening: Haxnicks and the Environment We are using bamboo pots and seed trays as a sustainable alternative to plastic. At Haxnicks we care about the environment and the environmental...
Hold onto Autumn & use stored pumpkin for this lovely recipe
Lashing rain from frequent storms makes it feel like Autumn is over. In Greek mythology, Autumn began when Persephone was abducted by Hades to be the Queen of the Underworld....
Spinach ready for eating?
If your spinach is ready then here is a lovely recipe for you. With a few tweaks it would also work with swiss chard if you have that ready at...
Halloween special... Pumpkin Pie Recipe anyone?
From the pictures on Social Media it appears that this was a bumper year for pumpkins and squashes. I am sure that this was not without its difficulties, particularly keeping...