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Courgettes: A Month By Month Growing Guide

24 Thursday May 2012

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We like to grow courgettes in our Vital Earth grow bags and each year we end up with so many wonderful vegetables, we thought you might find this month by month growing guide useful. May is the month to start sowing your seeds so what are you waiting for?

Prepare a home for your courgette plants

May: Sow your seeds at the beginning of the month and then pot on young courgette plants.

June: In the first week of June, plant out your new plants and make sure there are no weeds.

July: Water the courgette plants lots – especially if it’s hot!

August: Harvest your courgettes regularly whilst they’re young and small.

September: It’s quite normal for the leaves of your courgette plants to be mildew-infected.

October: Move your pots inside as it’s getting chilly!

November: Time for spent plants to go in to the Compost Bin!

December: Start thinking about what type you’ll be growing next year and order seeds.

January: Get your growing positions sorted with lots of lovely organic matter.

February: Why not have a look for some recipes for later on in the year?

March: If you’ve created planting pits, top them with soil.

April: Sow some more courgette seeds and start again!

Love Your Environment! Love Your Courgettes!

Five Simple Ways To Save Water This Year

19 Saturday May 2012

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Following one of the driest winters on record, many water companies are introducing temporary hosepipe bans to help protect our water supply so saving water has never been more important and everyone can do their little bit, it just takes a little bit of care and thought and a small actions can make huge differences!

Here are five simple things you can do:

1. Use a Water Butt to collect rainwater – it can be collected from the house, roof, garage, shed and even your greenhouse!

2. Deliver water directly to the base of your plants by using an approved irrigation system.

3. Keep your garden and beds weed free as they compete with any crops for that precious moisture.

4. Keep evaporation to a minimum by watering either in the morning or late on in the evening.

5. Mix water storing granules in to any containers, window boxes and hanging baskets.

Love Your Environment! Love Your Water!

Precycle! by Paul Peacock – How To Make Everything You Buy In The Shops

01 Tuesday May 2012

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How to make everything you buy in the shops, from sauce to sausages, bleach to beer, detergents to disinfectants.

Don’t Recycle – PREcycle

This little book is a Best Seller and is again reprinted A quote from the beginning of the book;

Would it surprise you that you could make a carpet cleaner for pennies that costs pounds? That you can make your own bacon and good bacon at that, far better than you can buy, for almost the price if cheap pork? Would you like to be able to make sauces at a penny a bottle or bread for a third of the price?

The dialogue goes on like that and then fails to disappoint on any of the numerous subjects referred to in the book.

Here again is a taster of the sections addressed, such as all kinds of sauces, pickles, jams etc, and meat; fish dairy and cakes; Cleaning cosmetics; drinks and tonics are there for the investment of a little time.

I cannot wait to try the sausages and there is even a way to get the sausage casings for nothing if you are resourceful.

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