Animal, Vegetable or Mineral

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Chocolate, coffee and tea? Challenge me please if I cannot count these as legitimate vegetables. However, who is to say that I cannot count them in my Five-a-Day, or seven or ten, whatever it is. This argument will extend to unreasonable possibilities, but who is this dictating to us about our daily intake of veggies anyway? Who is it that tells us to jump and then we all jump? Frankly I am delighted that there is a move afoot to grow more.

However many veggie portions you decide to eat you can at least be assured that they have all the natural vitamins of freshly picked and the trace elements we all need to maintain healthy balanced lives.

Where healthy eating is concerned,GardeningWorks.

Seven Reasons Why Using A Raised Bed Is Highly Beneficial

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More and more schools and gardeners are discovering the benefits of growing in Raised Beds. Here are the top seven reasons to use one!

1. You can match the type of soil in your Raised Wooden Bed to suit your plants or if you live in an area with poor or heavy clay soil you can fill your Wooden Raised Beds with a good growing medium.
2. Raised Wooden Beds take the bending out of gardening and provide easy access gardening for the young, old and the disabled.
3. Raised Wooden Beds offer improved drainage which is good news for those that live in an area prone to flooding and also during prolonged wet weather.
4. Crops are easily reached without walking on the soil so there is no compaction meaning less digging and less work.
5. The soil warms up much faster in Spring enabling you to plant earlier crops.
6. They are easy to cover with film, fleece or netting to protect crops.
7. They are suitable for growing a wide variety of Soft Fruits, Vegetables, Herbs, Flowers, Alpines, Small Trees and Shrubs.

Getting Ready For Spring – It’s Coming, Honest!

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Spring is fast approaching as it’s only three weeks away so we thought you might like these tips to help the new gardening season start with a flourish!

• Complete any unfinished digging and winter pruning
• Clean up the ground in between strawberry plants, take off the old leaves and apply a top dressing of a general fertiliser.
• When the weather becomes milder, prepare your beds in to which seed will be sown directly.
• Plant out your early potatoes and don’t forget to keep planting out at regular intervals. Bear in mind you might need to protect them from frosty weather.
• Plant out onion sets, shallots and garlic before they start to produce shoots.
• If you can offer greenhouse protection, sow celery, celeriac, french beans and cauliflowers.

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It’s Harvest Time Again!

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It is time to consider your harvests, they are in season now. Think of your harvest last year and what it will be this. This is the time when we really appreciate the harvests of last summer and autumn. We are delighting in home grown frozen and fresh vegetables?

And all that fruit – I never thought that I could find a home for ALL those apples. In fact Milly is still daily gorging on beautiful unmarked windfalls. The quinces are getting to the back of the bush but still worth risking the odd prickly experience for the delight of a quince. Red and black current jellies are just so delicious.

So indulge a gourmet fantasy this weekend and plan for harvest 2014.

Ticking Off The Jobs For January on Gardening With Children

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Gill has a beautiful article on the Latest News section of GardeningWithChildren website with mention of the jobs worth ticking off the list for this month. It will be a great help if you do not know where to start Plotting for the 2014 garden.

She insists that when the time comes it comes quickly and it is important to be ready. In less than a month we will be looking at substantially longer days. 2014 is another year when nature and the weather will play a big part in our wellbeing and happiness. All the reds, the greens and glitter that dominated our lives last month will have faded. The joy of January is that we can all plan, hope and have a right to expect an optimistic year ahead.

The National Trust reported that 2013 was a fantastic year for Butterflies; they thrived in the long hot summer months, sightings were up by an average of 80% during the summer’s three official counts, unfortunately for gardeners the Cabbage White did particularly well. The long warm and dry weather was welcomed by insects including moths, bees, crickets and grasshoppers.

For more information on seed sowing simply click here as the key to success is preparation!

GYO – Food You Can Trust That’s Nourishing & Healthy

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Did you know that more of the food that we’re eating in the UK is grown in gardens and on allotments according to the Family Food Report from Defra which analyses the habits of the British population.

Stats show that we more than doubled our intake of home-grown produce in the three years from 2008 with home grown fruit and vegetables accounting for five percent of all food consumed. Also, the good news too is that home-laid eggs are also getting more and more popular along with soft fruits and apples.

Spokesperson for the National Allotment Society, Georgie Willock said “Everyone’s looking for a way to save money but also to have a healthy lifestyle. When you grow your own fruit and veg the two go together.”

Here at The Recycle Works we’re passionate about spreading the news and we’ve purposely introduced products in all price ranges from budget to professional so that every budget can be catered for. There’s nothing more rewarding than eating something that you’ve grown and nowadays more than ever, it’s comforting to know that GYO is food you can trust!