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This Week: Growing Brassicas

July 13, 2020 by laurahamilton

What Are Brassicas? Brassicas include food such as cauliflower, broccoli, sprouts, turnip, swede, kohl rabi, cabbage, kale, and pak choi. Turnip and swede were covered in the previous post, Root Crops – click here to ...
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This week: Growing Peas and Beans

July 7, 2020 by laurahamilton

What Are Peas and Beans? Peas and beans are part of the legume family. They are great fun to grow, especially if you buy the different coloured varieties. This year I am growing green, purple and yellow French beans, red ...
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This week: Growing Root Crops

July 2, 2020 by laurahamilton

What Are Root Crops? Root crops includes vegetables that are grown as the root part of the plant. The root swells and this is what we pull or dig up and eat. This includes; Carrot Parsnip Radish Beetroot ...
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This week: Growing Salad Crops

April 3, 2020 by laurahamilton

Sow and Grow with The Conservation Volunteers in Birmingham Salad Growing in the UK Most salad crops grow well in the UK. I grow mine both on my allotment and at home in raised beds in the back garden, but you can easily ...
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An Introduction to Growing Your Own

April 2, 2020 by laurahamilton

Sow and Grow with The Conservation Volunteers in Birmingham During these strange times, The Conservation Volunteers in Birmingham will be encouraging people to grow their own food in their gardens, on windowsills, or at an ...
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Long thyme no see

March 30, 2020 by laurahamilton

Hello Everyone! It’s been a while but the thyme has come to reignite this blog. I am a fan of puns, so please bear with me as I leaf my way through a list of them. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we have suspended all of ...
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Garden Year – March

March 4, 2016 by mariewellings

Spring is now well and truly upon us and the TCV Health for Life Team have are well prepared for the new season; we've got potatoes chitting in egg boxes and seed trays for all of the sites, the bed have been turned and ...
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Garden Year – February

February 1, 2016 by mariewellings

After a month’s worth of digging, digging and a little more digging for most it’s  time to put down the fork and spade and begin to sow your first crops of the year. There are still plenty of jobs to do around the garden ...
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Pruning and Tree Care Event – QE

January 19, 2016 by mariewellings

It was a brisk January morning when a team of volunteers descended on the QE Orchards for a tree care and pruning day this weekend. People from all over the city came along to take care of the juvenile trees that were planted ...
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Garden Year – Janurary

January 8, 2016 by mariewellings

The Growing Year – January January has got to be one of the most hated months of the year; ten pounds of weight heavier and a few more than that in cash lighter. It’s generally cold and grey and the glow of the summer sun ...
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