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     Modular growing of plants
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    By Alan Down
    In Annuals and half hardy seasonal plants, Gardening, Gardening tips, Grow your own, Plant Propagation, Sowing, Vegetables
    Posted February 18, 2020

    Modular growing of plants

    Modular growing of plants is on the increase and there are many advantages to raising plants this way.   This frustrating season! Here we are in mid February and hardly a thing has been sown [...]

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     The three sisters growing technique
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    By Alan Down
    In Gardening, Gardening tips, Vegetables
    Posted September 17, 2018

    The three sisters growing technique

    The three sisters growing technique is uncommon in the UK. It puzzles me that so few gardeners adopt this companion planting vegetable growing method. Sweet corn – not maize I pass fields [...]

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     Sow Sweet Peas in autumn.
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    By Alan Down
    In Cut Flowers, Plant Propagation, Sowing
    Posted September 17, 2018

    Sow Sweet Peas in autumn.

    Sow Sweet Peas in autumn. If you sow sweet peas in autumn you’ll get the very best sweet peas …but by a whisker, those sown in late winter or very early spring are only a little [...]

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    About Alan

    Flora and fauna have always fascinated me but it was a lifelong career in horticulture that filled most days.

    Having grown up on a farm where boyhood days were filled with discoveries of the natural world I soon found that my passion for plants – wildflowers at that time – would direct my career…

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