Kitchen Garden

RISING TO THE CHALLENGE

April is a month of two halves in the kitchen garden for me; one half is loving the fact I’m constantly sowing seeds and plants are growing, while the other half of me can’t stand the fact it’s still too cold to get crops into the unheated greenhouse or plant them outside due to the chance of frost! The small, heated greenhouse and propagators look like they are going to explode with plants and it’s always a challenge to keep them all happy, especially when some need potting up. However, we always seem to cope.

That said, I’m potting tomatoes into two-litre pots and making sure the taller plants are potted deeply to increase the plants’ root systems. You are fine to do

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