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Superstar Simon – Now a Video Star!

29 Monday Jun 2009

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Well can you believe it? We’ve been wanting to put together video footage for a while now but we weren’t sure who would be the best person from the team to present in them. However, we most definitely now have the answer and we’ve made our first instruction videos in order to give our customers simple and easy to watch instructions for our wonderful new Vitogrow products.

The Vitogrow products are mini greenhouses and propagators, all in one, with guaranteed success! Our instruction videos will be available on the order page for each product – so watch out for more.

So Simon – Lights, Camera, Action!!

Get On Your Bike! It’s National Bike Week!

13 Saturday Jun 2009

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Bike Week is the biggest nationwide cycling event in the UK.  A national celebration of cycling, Bike Week helps you get more out of life – by getting on your bike and exploring your local community. 

New for 2009, Bike Week focuses on encouraging families to taking up cycling as a regular activity in their local community.  Bike Week is the time to “live local and get cycling.”

Bike Week is free to enter and open to everyone – you can either take part in an event or organise one yourself, you don’t have to be an experienced cyclist either, anyone can set up a Bike Week event.

To find out more or participate in one of the local events, simply click here and find out more!

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Portable Gardens, Propagators and Mini Greenhouses!

12 Friday Jun 2009

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vitagrow smallThe self-watering Vitogrow is a salad and herb garden that makes growing your own easy – anywhere and is available in two sizes. We were so impressed with them when we saw them that we knew they’d be a real hit!

Vitogrow contains everything you need to get growing. Just add compost and sow your seeds. No experienced required. In fact the manufacturers are so confident that anyone can grow in Vitogrow that they guarantee you crop success.

Also, plants are healthier in a Vitogrow because they are provided with constant access to water and nutrients without the plants sitting in water.

Quadgrow MediumThere are two other wonderful products available in the range, the Quadgrow and the Octogrow. You can have with with or without lids, the choice is yours.

These are especially useful if you have a limited amount of space or require portability. We’re also sure they’re going to be a real hit with the schools who’ve already purchased them as they’ll help produce wonderful crops!

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Salad Leaves – It’s Not Rocket Science!

01 Monday Jun 2009

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grow your own, recycleworks, rocket leaves, salad bed, salubrious sald bed, save money

salad_bedWell it all started when I went to the supermarket this weekend and bought two packs of rocket for a meal with Friends on Saturday night. I’ve never really considered the cost of vegetables and salad before until the day when I announced, ‘I’m going to grow some vegetables!’

Those two packets of rocket cost me £2.98 and most weeks I’ll buy at least two, or maybe even three, so I’ve worked it out that over the Summer I’ll probably spend at least £40 just on rocket alone! Not any more!

My mission this week  is to plant my own and then in 21 days I’ll be able to eat the fruits of my own labour. I’m anxiously awaiting my first onions, garlic and potato to be ready – must think of a recipe! So in case you’re thinking like me and fancy growing your own salad leaves, here are a few of my newly learned pointers as it’s not rocket science!!!

To grow, fill the container will multi purpose compost and leave a 2.5cm gap between the top of the container and the level of the compost. (I’ll of course be using one of our Salubrious Salad Beds – how could I not!) Scatter the seeds thinly on top of the compost and cover with 2 cm of compost and water well.

The container then needs to be put in a slightly shaded or sunny spot and kept well watered. Wait 21 days but please do eat something else in-between and then the leaves will be ready to pick.

I’m told that you can either snip them off as you want them or you can cut the whole plant off leaving about a 1 to 2 cm stump. The leaves will keep growing back and will be good to eat until they flower, at which point they can go on the compost heap.

Of course it’s not just rocket you can grow – I just love the stuff, that’s all! You can grow mizuna, chicory, radish leaf, carrot leaves…….the varieties are endless!

I’ll take pictures as I go along as I’m a real novice gardener and I’ll prove that if I can do it, anyone can so watch this space and I’ll report back, with photographic evidence as well!

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