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Winners of Haxnicks Schools Veg Growing Competition

Haxnicks helps out with gardening in Schools

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, awarding students from Richmond Park Academy a Haxnicks prize at the Grow Your Own School Garden Competition Awards.
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Sweet cicely aniseed flavour herb

Sweet Cicely and Rhubarb

Sweet Cicely has an aromatic aniseed like flavour and is great for pies and pastries.  Learn more about growing it here.
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Sunbubble pop up greenhouse the ideal plant house cold frame or relaxation space

Haxnicks Sunbubble - the instant greenhouse

This innovative pop up greenhouse is the perfect way to grow plants and get a bumper crop.  Perfect for growing tomatoes, melons in fact any sort of plant, using as...
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How to chit and plant seed potatoes

How to chit potatoes and grow your own potato crop.  
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4 easy ways to make your vegetable garden flourish during a wet summer

Here in the UK we love our unpredictable weather and a wet summer is part of that. But here is some inspiration for when your plants aren't loving the lower...
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How to get an Allotment - tips & tricks

How to get an Allotment - tips & tricks

There hasn't been such a demand for allotments since the days of Victory Gardens in and just after WWII. Discover our tips and tricks to get an allotment in your...
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Easy Autumn recipe - delicious Autumn Apple Biscuits

If you are looking for a cookie recipe that won't stay in the bisuit tin long then try these delicious apple biscuits - an autumn favourite they are a super...
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Autumn Tasks - how to cook pumpkin seeds and how to store apples

If you want to know if your pumpkin is rips check out this blog How to Harvest Pumpkins  But if you are already there and have harvested we are really hoping...
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What to do in the gardne in September: Pickled Pears & brutal Tomato care!

September is a bitey month for gardeners but there are still some jobs that need to be done - clcik through to see what gardenign tasks are happening in the...
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Pippa Greenwood - Q&A - Part II

Pippa Greenwood - Q&A - Part II

Gardening expert and broadcaster Pippa Greenwood answers Haxnicks customers' gardenign questions on everything from sowing seeds to cutting hedges.  
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Pippa Greenwood - Q&A - Part I

Pippa Greenwood - Q&A - Part I

Gardening expert Pippa Greenwood answers Haxnicks customers' gardenign questions from diseased plum trees to preventing algae on your patio. Click through to discover more
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Growing Brassicas From Seeds

Growing brassicas Cabbages, kale, kohlrabi, cauliflower, broccoli and Brussel Sprouts are all varieties of the same species of Brassica oleracea which is native to the Mediterranean. Brassicas thrive on transplanting...
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