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Gourmet Vegetables to Grow Now

Posted on April 14, 2016

I love April, it’s such a super month in the garden – there are so many beautiful vegetables that you can sow now.

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Gardening Advice for September:

Do you have a sunny garden, balcony, or patio? Grow these stunning plants – they’ll help bees & butterflies!
Do you have a sunny garden, balcony, or patio? Grow these stunning plants – they’ll help bees & butterflies!
Beautiful Daffodils to Plant Now
Beautiful Daffodils to Plant Now
Enjoy the Magic of Houseplants this Autumn & Winter!
Enjoy the Magic of Houseplants this Autumn & Winter!
Fabulously Fragrant Daffodils!
Fabulously Fragrant Daffodils!
Revitalise your life with delicious, nutritious sprouting seeds and microgreens!
Revitalise your life with delicious, nutritious sprouting seeds and microgreens!
How to Plant Beautiful Bottle Gardens and Terrific Terrariums!
How to Plant Beautiful Bottle Gardens and Terrific Terrariums!
Ripening unripe tomatoes
Ripening unripe tomatoes
What to do with your tomatoes in September & how to ripen unripe tomatoes!
What to do with your tomatoes in September & how to ripen unripe tomatoes!
An Update From My Wildlife Pond in Early Autumn – Full of Water & Wildlife!
An Update From My Wildlife Pond in Early Autumn – Full of Water & Wildlife!
A Request to Leave Your Autumn Leaves Alone
A Request to Leave Your Autumn Leaves Alone
It’s the Perfect Time to Propagate Penstemons!
It’s the Perfect Time to Propagate Penstemons!
Be a Successful Meadow Maker!
Be a Successful Meadow Maker!
Jackie Currie and her National Collection of Alliums
Jackie Currie and her National Collection of Alliums
Looking for an easy-to-grow flowering houseplant? Let me introduce you to Thanksgiving Cacti…..
Looking for an easy-to-grow flowering houseplant? Let me introduce you to Thanksgiving Cacti…..
How to help Hedgehogs
How to help Hedgehogs
Grow Your Own Architectural Angel: sow Angelica archangelica seeds now!
Grow Your Own Architectural Angel: sow Angelica archangelica seeds now!
Sow seeds of these gorgeous daisies now and enjoy a garden full of flowers next year!
Sow seeds of these gorgeous daisies now and enjoy a garden full of flowers next year!
My New Wildlife Pond
My New Wildlife Pond
Plant my trialled and tested daffodils now and enjoy superb spring flowers next year!
Plant my trialled and tested daffodils now and enjoy superb spring flowers next year!
Protecting your Plants from Slugs and Snails
Protecting your Plants from Slugs and Snails

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More Ideas for Sustainable Living
Grow Chives – these beautiful plants are super-easy to grow and incredibly rewarding!
Grow Chives – these beautiful plants are super-easy to grow and incredibly rewarding!
Setting up my new Rainforest Terrarium
Setting up my new Rainforest Terrarium
Make things easier for yourself: Sow seeds of hardy annuals directly in the soil now and enjoy earlier flowers next spring!
Make things easier for yourself: Sow seeds of hardy annuals directly in the soil now and enjoy earlier flowers next spring!
Celebrating Self-Watering Containers: Making Growing Edibles Easier for All & Saving Water too!
Celebrating Self-Watering Containers: Making Growing Edibles Easier for All & Saving Water too!
Prized Orchids to Grow and Treasure
Prized Orchids to Grow and Treasure
Keeping Track of Tradescantia: find out about plant names, the National Collection of Tradescantia, & easy to grow, versatile houseplants!
Keeping Track of Tradescantia: find out about plant names, the National Collection of Tradescantia, & easy to grow, versatile houseplants!
Creating a Garden for Retirement
Creating a Garden for Retirement
Please Grow Caterpillar Food Plants to Help Butterflies & Moths!
Please Grow Caterpillar Food Plants to Help Butterflies & Moths!
Sow Seeds of Strongly Perfumed Sweet Peas this Spring & Enjoy the Most Exquisitely Fragranced Flowers this Summer!
Sow Seeds of Strongly Perfumed Sweet Peas this Spring & Enjoy the Most Exquisitely Fragranced Flowers this Summer!
2026 Specialist Plant Fairs, Festivals, Plant Sales, Plant & Seed Swaps
2026 Specialist Plant Fairs, Festivals, Plant Sales, Plant & Seed Swaps
Fabulous Phalaenopsis!
Fabulous Phalaenopsis!
New Introductions from David Austin Roses for 2019
New Introductions from David Austin Roses for 2019
Look out for The Missing Collector: Plant Heritage’s first garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show!
Look out for The Missing Collector: Plant Heritage’s first garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show!
Let’s Team Up & Sow Seeds this Spring to Help Small Blue Butterflies!
Let’s Team Up & Sow Seeds this Spring to Help Small Blue Butterflies!

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The National Auricula and Primula Society Southern Section’s 132nd Auricula Show
The National Auricula and Primula Society Southern Section’s 132nd Auricula Show
An update on the LED Lights, Misting Unit, & Equipment, inside my Orchidarium (part five)
An update on the LED Lights, Misting Unit, & Equipment, inside my Orchidarium (part five)
More ways to use less plastic in the garden
More ways to use less plastic in the garden
Book Review – Gardening With Less Water
Book Review – Gardening With Less Water
The Madagascar BiOrbAir Terrarium (part seven)
The Madagascar BiOrbAir Terrarium (part seven)
A long-term review of the BiOrbAir (part two)
A long-term review of the BiOrbAir (part two)

Product and Book Reviews

White Orchid BiOrbAir Terrarium Planting List
White Orchid BiOrbAir Terrarium Planting List
Christmas Gifts for Gardeners 2016
Christmas Gifts for Gardeners 2016
An update on the Paphiopedilum and Phalaenopsis orchids inside my Rainforest Terrarium
An update on the Paphiopedilum and Phalaenopsis orchids inside my Rainforest Terrarium
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