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- 2 Articles
- 2.1 What To Plant In July? 6 Vegetable Seeds That Grow Easily
- 2.2 Grow Pak Choi on Allotment – Easy Gardening
- 2.3 Growing Basil From Seed – Real Men Sow
- 2.4 Allotment Jobs For The Summer: 6 Tasks To Grow Your Garden
- 2.5 Parsnip Seedlings and Sowing Tips
- 2.6 Top Potato Types in the UK based on Popular Recipes
- 2.7 How To Sow Seeds: Easy Guide for Beginners
- 2.8 How to Grow Broad Beans And Harvest Them
- 2.9 Grow Purple Sprouting Broccoli – Gardener’s Know-How
- 2.10 5 Types of Squash In The UK To Plant and Grow
- 2.11 Cheap Vegetable Seeds In The UK
- 2.12 Best Frost Protection for Plants, Prevent Winter Damage in Gardens
- 2.13 How to Grow Carrots in Containers? Easy Tips for Beginners
- 2.14 Bulky Organic Matter to Feed Garden Soil and Grow More Vegetables
- 2.15 Beginners Allotment Plan With 6 Easy Plants To Grow
- 2.16 Should You Use Garden Rotavator on Your Allotment and Soil?
- 2.17 When To Dig Up Potatoes From The Ground? | Real Men Sow
- 2.18 Cylindra Beetroot: What is it & When to Grow it
- 2.19 Perpetual Spinach: What is it, When to Pick & Sow
- 2.20 How to Store Apples in Winter, Best Way to Keep them Fresh
- 2.21 5 Tips to Keep Your Herbs Fresh in the Winter
- 2.22 When To Harvest Butternut Squash And How To Know When Ripe
- 2.23 Courgette Plant: Growing Tips For Beginner Gardeners
- 2.24 How to Plant Fruit Bushes Easily – Gardening Guide in the UK
- 2.25 What To Plant In August (UK)? 8 Vegetable Seeds To Sow
- 2.26 How To Start Allotment As A Beginner Gardener (UK)
- 2.27 Allotment Cake Ideas With Recipes Try and Enjoy
- 2.28 Intercropping Vegetables The Easy Way to Grow More
- 2.29 How to Plant Leeks, Tips for Growing & Sowing
- 2.30 Sweet Pea Wigwam Planting Tips From Expert
- 2.31 Perfect Rhubarb Crumble Ice Cream Recipe
- 2.32 How to Use Lemon Balm from Your Garden? Benefits and Recipes
- 2.33 How to Grow Asparagus Plant from Seed – The Ultimate Guide
- 2.34 Best Greenhouse Gardening Tips for Beginners – Gardening Guide
- 2.35 Gardening Tips for Beginners |Top Tasks to Do in Your Garden
- 2.36 An Early April Patch from Scratch Update, Because I’ve Had a Magical Weekend
- 2.37 Organic Multi-Purpose Compost for Gardening and Soil Care
- 2.38 Damson Cake Recipe From The Allotment
- 2.39 Vegetable Germination Period Cheat Sheet For Greenhouse Gardening
- 2.40 Lemon and Thyme Allotment Cake – Nigel Slater’s Recipe
- 2.41 Naomi Schillinger’s Best Gardening Book, Veg Street Review
- 2.42 Reusable Every Day Items from Your Household and Garden
- 2.43 Real Benefits Of Cavolo Nero | Health and Gardening
- 2.44 How To Keep Slugs And Snails Away From Plants Organically
- 2.45 How to Plant and Grow Strawberries in Raised Bed
- 2.46 Easy Plants to Grow in Your Outdoor Vegetable Garden | For Beginners
- 2.47 5 Spring Vegetables For Easy Gardening
- 2.48 Chitting Potatoes To Grow Faster With Practical Advice
- 2.49 Seaweed Fertilizer for Vegetable Growth – Gardening Benefits
- 2.50 9 Money Saving Fruits and Vegetables to Plant in Your Garden
- 2.51 How to Grow Beetroots – Gardening Guides and Techniques
- 2.52 7 Allotment Cake Recipe Ideas for Birthdays
- 2.53 Grow Rosemary Plant in Your Garden
- 2.54 What To Do With Broad Beans? Try these Delicious Recipes
- 2.55 Growing Peas In Pots The Right Way
- 2.56 The 5 Best Healthy Rhubarb Dessert Recipes
- 2.57 How to Grow a Blueberry Plant? – Best Varieties in the UK
- 2.58 How To Get Free Seeds For Your Garden – Gardening Freebies
- 2.59 Allotment Planner – Gardening Software for Vegetable Gardeners
- 2.60 Why are hydroponic systems growing in popularity in gardening circles?
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What To Plant In July? 6 Vegetable Seeds That Grow Easily
I love all the produce that has started to come off the allotment, but I still find myself coming over all wistful in the greenhouse. Why? There are next to…
Grow Pak Choi on Allotment – Easy Gardening
Having an allotment has introduced me to a load of delicious fruit and veg that I might not have entertained eating before. Pak choi is one such vegetable, and now…
Growing Basil From Seed – Real Men Sow
Basil is a real taste-of-summer crop, especially when used in Mediterranean-style dishes with tomatoes, garlic, and cheese. And the good news is that now is a perfect time to sow…
Allotment Jobs For The Summer: 6 Tasks To Grow Your Garden
So, we’re heading into summer (although typically it doesn’t really feel like it yet) and things on the plot are starting to take off. Most of my plants are in,…
Parsnip Seedlings and Sowing Tips
When I first started outgrowing my own veg, one of the crops I was most excited about growing was the good old parsnip seedlings. Trouble was, I found them a…
Top Potato Types in the UK based on Popular Recipes
You can’t get much more of an allotment staple than the faithful potato. Low maintenance, high cropping, and versatile in the kitchen, we love them. It’s estimated that the average…
How To Sow Seeds: Easy Guide for Beginners
I started my allotment journey about 10 years ago and I reckon I must have sown hundreds, if not thousands of seeds since I took my plot on. Of course,…
How to Grow Broad Beans And Harvest Them
I enjoy growing broad beans. They’re attractive plants, with sweet little beans and are one of the first crops of a new season. As an extra bonus, they’re very hardy…
Grow Purple Sprouting Broccoli – Gardener’s Know-How
In my house, one of the favourite crops of the year is the prolific purple sprouting broccoli. These little purple florets are real nuggets of flavour, and Ailsa especially loves…
5 Types of Squash In The UK To Plant and Grow
When I took my allotment 6 years ago, very few plots gave space to squashes, but recently I’ve seen more and more people trying these brilliant vegetables. Is It Hard…
Cheap Vegetable Seeds In The UK
Christmas is here, and the time has come for me to decide which vegetable seeds I’m going to sow in the growing season. Doing this over Chrimbo has become an…
Best Frost Protection for Plants, Prevent Winter Damage in Gardens
Lots of winter vegetable plants are very robust, but you might want to consider giving some frost protection for the plants. I’m lucky enough to have a greenhouse, so any…
How to Grow Carrots in Containers? Easy Tips for Beginners
Do your carrots look more like stumpy three-legged people than those perfectly straight shop-bought specimens? Yep, mine too. My problem is that stony, heavy ground that either splits my roots…
Bulky Organic Matter to Feed Garden Soil and Grow More Vegetables
To grow healthy, bountiful fruit and vegetables, we are reliant on the soil. Feeding the soil with bulky organic matter is a way to create a rich base for our…
Beginners Allotment Plan With 6 Easy Plants To Grow
This whole new half allotment, the half garden idea is very exciting for me, and I’ve got loads of thoughts zipping around my head. The time comes of course when…
Should You Use Garden Rotavator on Your Allotment and Soil?
So, you got the call and an allotment is all yours. You head down to be shown the plot and your heart sinks. It’s a complete mess, but unfortunately, there is nothing…
When To Dig Up Potatoes From The Ground? | Real Men Sow
For me, potatoes are one of the most fun crops to harvest. Digging them up reminds me of a treasure hunt – when you start rooting around the soil, you…
Cylindra Beetroot: What is it & When to Grow it
This year I grew Cylindra beetroot, a variety I’ve never tried before. They were a bargain buy from the allotment shop at the princely sum of 85p. As it is…
Perpetual Spinach: What is it, When to Pick & Sow
I’m a perpetual spinach bore. I could talk about this leafy green until the cow’s come home. Harvesting last night, I realised I’ve blogged about it several times before, but…
How to Store Apples in Winter, Best Way to Keep them Fresh
If apples were the currency of England, I’d be a rich man. I’ve got bags of them already, and I don’t even own an apple tree. Everywhere I turn there…
5 Tips to Keep Your Herbs Fresh in the Winter
I sit writing this at 7:30 pm, and it's dark outside. The weather is chillier and wetter. I think the proper term is ‘distinctly autumnal’. The time is coming when…
When To Harvest Butternut Squash And How To Know When Ripe
Astronomically, we’re now in Autumn, which means that harvesting time for our butternut squashes is upon us. According to seed packets, the varieties I’ve grown this year are ready to…
Courgette Plant: Growing Tips For Beginner Gardeners
I read a lot of blogs and veg growing books, and something occurred to me the other day: I’ve never seen anything that says ‘courgette plant is amazing! It's incredible!’…
How to Plant Fruit Bushes Easily – Gardening Guide in the UK
I don’t know why, but soft fruit bushes aren’t something I’ve talked much about on Real Men Sow. On my allotment, I had lots of fruit bushes. There were 3…
What To Plant In August (UK)? 8 Vegetable Seeds To Sow
Last week, I wrote a post excitedly telling the world that planting in July and August are great months for beans, peas and other vegetable seeds. However, I now realize…
How To Start Allotment As A Beginner Gardener (UK)
If you’re thinking of starting an allotment, here are 8 things that I reckon are worth pondering. If you are sure you'll start an allotment soon, make sure you also…
Allotment Cake Ideas With Recipes Try and Enjoy
I haven’t made an Allotment Cake for the weekend in a month. However, I’m not giving up on my allotment cake ideas blog feature after only half a dozen efforts.…
Intercropping Vegetables The Easy Way to Grow More
Has anyone out there in the blogosphere tried intercropping? I’ve tried three different intercropping experiments this year, which are all at varying levels of progress. But What is Intercropping Vegetables?…
How to Plant Leeks, Tips for Growing & Sowing
Leeks are a popular vegetable and are a member of the onion family. They are available from August through early winter, with some varieties maturing in just three weeks. Some…
Sweet Pea Wigwam Planting Tips From Expert
In the spirit of experimenting with space-saving growing methods, I decided to try growing sweet peas up a wigwam this year. I’ve just made my first harvest of mangetout, and…
Perfect Rhubarb Crumble Ice Cream Recipe
The sun was out, so I made rhubarb ice cream instead which was a refreshing dessert from my allotment! With plenty of rhubarb and a new toy to play with,…
How to Use Lemon Balm from Your Garden? Benefits and Recipes
I really wish everything grew as fast as my lemon balm plant. I dug this speedy herb up and it had rooted itself a few yards from another one. The…
How to Grow Asparagus Plant from Seed – The Ultimate Guide
Here is a post that could encapsulate a long term commitment to Real Men Sow and my garden. I am attempting to grow asparagus from seed. This is one of…
Best Greenhouse Gardening Tips for Beginners – Gardening Guide
I’ve been in my new, greenhouse-equipped garden for a year now. The introduction of a greenhouse into my veg growing life has been a revelation and something that has added…
Gardening Tips for Beginners |Top Tasks to Do in Your Garden
As a kind of beginner-turned-improver at allotmenteering, people often ask me what to grow first, where to start, what can they do in a small space, etc. Well, if I…
An Early April Patch from Scratch Update, Because I’ve Had a Magical Weekend
What a difference the sun makes! I was going to do a Patch from Scratch update at the end of the month, but having enjoyed such a glorious, inspiring…
Organic Multi-Purpose Compost for Gardening and Soil Care
Apologies for a rather belated £5 a Month Veg Plot March update. I’ve not been hiding another massive overspend, honest. Well, maybe a little bit… I did actually keep within…
Damson Cake Recipe From The Allotment
When I originally talked about Allotment Cakes for the Weekend, I mentioned resourcefulness. With this time of year very much forcing me into the store cupboard and freezer, this weekend’s…
Vegetable Germination Period Cheat Sheet For Greenhouse Gardening
They’ve taken almost 4 weeks, but I’ve finally got signs of carrot and beetroot germination (pictured) in the greenhouse. I’m putting this progress down to a few short bursts of…
Lemon and Thyme Allotment Cake – Nigel Slater’s Recipe
I seem to have declared my weekly allotment based cake making year at the worst time. The stores are empty, and my rhubarb is still a few weeks from picking.…
Naomi Schillinger’s Best Gardening Book, Veg Street Review
Every so often, you read a book that brings a big smile to your face. Naomi Schillinger’s Veg Street is one such book. North London-based Naomi shares the story of…
Reusable Every Day Items from Your Household and Garden
The little microclimate in my sheltered corner of the world finally caught up today, and we got snow. Normally, I love snow, but with my usual sledging partner 8 months…
Real Benefits Of Cavolo Nero | Health and Gardening
Ladies and Gentlemen, I love Cavolo Nero. Cavolo Nero is an Italian leafy green and is used widely in many staple Italian meals. Up until this year, I’d never heard…
How To Keep Slugs And Snails Away From Plants Organically
Just when I thought I’d got a hold of the slug and snail population in my garden, this happens: My healthy-looking Mibuna decimated. The oriental salad leaves were on the…
How to Plant and Grow Strawberries in Raised Bed
Potting up strawberries from runners is one of my favourite jobs on the allotment, and I’ve been having a grand time doing this in the warm evening sun of the…
Easy Plants to Grow in Your Outdoor Vegetable Garden | For Beginners
I got stuck in the middle of the Hungry Gap, when the winter vegetables are gone, and the spring replacements are still finding their feet. This got me thinking about…
5 Spring Vegetables For Easy Gardening
It's mid-March, the weather has improved a smidgen and the rhubarb is nearly ready to pick. Spring is almost here, and I’ve been rummaging through my seed boxes to remind…
Chitting Potatoes To Grow Faster With Practical Advice
I bought my seed potatoes from the allotment shop yesterday. After much deliberation, I went for Pink Fir Apple and Estima, both varieties I’ve never grown. I chose the Estima…
Seaweed Fertilizer for Vegetable Growth – Gardening Benefits
On Monday, Wellywoman published a really good post about using seaweed as manure. This was rather timely for me, as I have been collecting my own barrowful of slimy weed…
9 Money Saving Fruits and Vegetables to Plant in Your Garden
There were 9 fruits and vegetables that saved a substantial more than everything else during 2021. Not only did I get to save money in my own garden but also…
How to Grow Beetroots – Gardening Guides and Techniques
My lack of beetroot love left me feeling a little guilty, so to try and make up with one of my favourite allotment crops, I’ve decided to big up the…
7 Allotment Cake Recipe Ideas for Birthdays
Real Men Sow is one year old on Thursday. To celebrate this landmark, I’d planned many exciting events and ideas, like sister sites and world allotment domination. In the end,…
Grow Rosemary Plant in Your Garden
With hindsight, maybe I should have then planted the cuttings into a bigger pot so that I could move the rosemary inside when the weather is very cold, but instead,…
What To Do With Broad Beans? Try these Delicious Recipes
My broad beans are very nearly ready, and in line with most years, I’ve grown loads of them. So, I’ll be up to my neck in ‘em within a couple…
Growing Peas In Pots The Right Way
I’ve been having after zero success with peas and mangetout on the allotment. I struggled with patchy germination, and what did come through shrivelled up and went to pea heaven…
The 5 Best Healthy Rhubarb Dessert Recipes
There are many great recipes for rhubarb, and year by year I’m getting round to trying as many as possible. I adore the pinky green sticks and the deliciously sweet…
How to Grow a Blueberry Plant? – Best Varieties in the UK
As payday is on the horizon, I was pondering treating myself to planting a nice blueberry bush. Ailsa is half American, and having spent time there as a child, is…
How To Get Free Seeds For Your Garden – Gardening Freebies
If you’re growing your own to save some cash (and let’s face it, who doesn’t like a few more pennies in their pocket?), then keeping the cost of your seed…
Allotment Planner – Gardening Software for Vegetable Gardeners
I love a bit of allotment geek. Last weekend, I borrowed a surveyor’s wheel, and took precise measurements of my plot, ready to start this year’s plan. Then I found…
Why are hydroponic systems growing in popularity in gardening circles?
Last Updated on October 12, 2023 by Real Men Sow Nowadays, rapid advancements in science and technology as well as humanity’s pursuit of environmental sustainability are driving innovation in various … Read more
