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Category Archives: Vegetables

Vegetables at Downside Nurseries

Posted in: Spring colour, Vegetables | March 9, 2019 at 13:06 , by Downside Nurseries

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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 Downside Nurseries

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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 Downside Nurseries

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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 Downside Nurseries

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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...

Summer colour and vegetable plants

Posted in: Colour, Summer colour, Vegetables | July 22, 2017 at 14:11 , by Downside Nurseries

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Rudbeckia Summerina at Downside Nurseries

If you are an expert garden designer y our garden will be carefully planned to have colour and interest all year round. Most of us are not, however. The easiest way is to take a look at your garden and, as the colour fades, come and buy a...