This is a blog post on how to prevent tomato blight. Tomato blight is when the tomato starts to go brown before it ripens. It is devastating for the gardener as all the time wasted trying to grow the tomatoes and try to get them to ripen. It is can happen quite easily. I started […]
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This is a blog post on growing and harvesting cosmos flowers. All varieties of cosmos flowers are good for natural printing. Different varieties yield different colors. I am a big fan of natural printing at the moment, I started growing cosmos flowers after looking at what cosmos sulfurous flowers can do. It can be pressed,
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This is a blog post on growing and harvesting Wong Bok cabbage at home. Tips and tricks from sowing to harvesting them. Wong Bok is a lesser-known Chinese leaf than Pak choi. It is also known as Chinese cabbage. there are many varieties of them. The ones I grew don’t resemble much of what you
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This blog post is about growing and harvesting coreopsis. Coreopsis is annual or can be a perennial depending on the variety of flowering plants. mostly are grown as annuals. As I love fabric dyeing so I tend to grow plants that be of use for natural dyeing or printing. The leaves yield nice strong yellow
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This blog post is on growing and harvesting Dyers Chamomile (Anthemis tinctoria). Dyers Chamomile is a weak perennial plant. Weak perennial means that the plant may or may not survive and come back next year. It’s from a family of daisy so the flowers look a bit like a daisy. I am growing dyers Chamomile
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This blog post is on growing and harvesting marigold. Marigold is easy to grow as an annual flowering plant. In the UK it would not survive come wintertime. Marigold flowers in small amounts it is edible. In my previous post, I have written a similar variety of marigold known as Tagetes minuta. I am growing
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This is a blog post on growing and harvesting with goldenrod. Goldenrod is a dye plant that produces different variations of yellow color. It is also known by its scientific name Solidago species. The different variations of yellow come with using different types of metal compounds called mordant. For more details about the use of
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