Posted June 21st, 2011
by Carolyn Simmons
Peas are typically one of the first vegetables to be planted in the early spring each year. Not only are they easy to grow, but they are also quite prolific, producing an abundance of little green pods each year.
Its not uncommon to get oodles of peas from just a few plants in a season.
One of the trickiest things about growing peas is knowing when to pick them. It can be difficult to know when the peas are ready for harvesting if you are a new vegetable gardener.
Here are a few tips on knowing how and when to pick peas in your vegetable garden so that you dont end up harvesting a bunch of empty pods.
There are several different types of peas that you can grow in your vegetable garden.
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Posted June 21st, 2011
by Carolyn Simmons
The geographical origins of landscape architecture in Scotland
More geography graduates should think about postgraduate courses in landscape architecture and careers in landscape architecture, especially if they are from Scotland’s Central Belt. About 500m years ago, in the Silurian period, England and Scotland belonged to different tectonic plates. They were mostly underwater and separated by the Iapetus Ocean. In the Devonian period the plates collided on the line of the Forth Estuary, shown on the photograph. T Full Article…
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Posted June 19th, 2011
by Carolyn Simmons
I harvested my Red Currants today. Wow! I can hardly believe how many currants I got from one bush. I didn’t have time to do anything with them right now so I’ve frozen them. I read somewhere that the easiest way to get them off the stalks is to run a fork down the stalk and they just pop off. So I tried it and it really works! No more fiddling about trying to pluck the tiny green remainder of the stalk out, they come off clean as a whistle.
I froze them flat and then bagged them up in the freezer. The
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Posted June 11th, 2011
by Carolyn Simmons
Peas are typically one of the first vegetables to be planted in the early spring each year. Not only are they easy to grow, but they are also quite prolific, producing an abundance of little green pods each year.
Its not uncommon to get oodles of peas from just a few plants in a season.
One of the trickiest things about growing peas is knowing when to pick them. It can be difficult to know when the peas are ready for harvesting if you are a new vegetable gardener.
Here are a few tips on knowing how and when to pick peas in your vegetable garden so that you dont end up harvesting a bunch of empty pods.
There are several different types of peas that you can grow in your vegetable garden.
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Posted May 29th, 2011
by Carolyn Simmons
As vegetable gardeners, we are always looking for ways to maximize the amount of vegetables we grow in the space we have. It is important to use the land available to improve the efficiency of our vegetable gardens as much as possible.
There are many ways to improve the efficiency of your vegetable garden, and here are three simple ways to get the most from your vegetable garden.
From January to March I spend a lot of time working on my garden plan for the upcoming season.
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