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Category Archives: Vegetables

Downside News 7th April

Posted in: Bedding, Hanging Baskets, Home deliveries, Vegetables | April 7, 2020 at 14:37 , by Debbie Newman

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Please read our latest news update here. It covers our home delivery offer our first batch of tomatoes is just about ready Growing vegetables – some pointers if you’re quite new to this bedding and basket plants...

Vegetables at Downside Nurseries

Posted in: Vegetables, Spring colour | March 9, 2019 at 13:06 , by Debbie Newman

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When we checked our vegetable list against ‘Gardening Which’s’ list of recommended varieties, we were pleased to find most of the varieties we grow on it. Those that are not are all top-quality commercial varieties not generally available as seed for amateurs so outside their remit. This year we have...

Your vegetable garden

Posted in: Vegetables | September 27, 2018 at 16:29 , by Debbie Newman

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For the vegetable garden, there are plenty of spring cabbage and winter lettuce plants ready. If you have an empty cold glasshouse you could try a few spring cabbages in pots (use a soil-based compost). You will be cutting weeks ahead of the outdoor ones. Mangetout are another worthwhile cold...

Vegetables and Salad

Posted in: Salad, Vegetables | July 22, 2018 at 12:03 , by Debbie Newman

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Vegetables We will try and keep lettuce plants in stock until the autumn. Even ‘cut-and-come-again’ types will run to seed eventually and need replacing. Runner beans are reaching the tops of their canes now. Keep pinching the tops out as this will encourage new growth from the base and avoid...

Vegetables at Downside – tomatoes, sticcoli, squash, kale and lovage

Posted in: James Wong, Salad, Vegetables | March 20, 2018 at 10:25 , by Debbie Newman

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Tomatoes There really is nothing like the taste of home-grown tomatoes. Part of the reason for this is that, unlike other fruits, say apples or bananas, they stop producing the volatile flavour-giving molecules once they have been chilled. The reddening and softening process continues but the flavour does not develop...