Ready to be planted…
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Nurturing plants from seed is the ultimate way to grow your own. It’s rewarding to tend your plants from first sprout to bumper crop, and it saves a fortune on buying plug plants. Here we present nine of the best gardening blogs we’ve found, that have an emphasis on growers who like to start from the beginning.
Take some tips from these amazing bloggers about growing veg!
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Say goodbye to tasteless supermarket produce by growing your own delicious nutritious fruit and veggies. To help show you how, we’ve hunted down some of the best vegetable gardening blogs around.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve got a sprawling allotment, or a scrubby patch of urban garden – here’s the inspiration and insight you need to help you on your way.
A beatiful Carmarthenshire country garden
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What do they grow in Wales? Everything from wildflowers and ornamental grasses to home-grown vegetables. Here we reach beyond traditional stereotypes to bring you the lowdown on what – apart from leeks and daffs – makes the garden grow for green-fingered Welsh bloggers.
Inspirational and educational in equal measure, these blogs will have you reaching for seed packets and shovels in no time at all.
Autumn view of a Scottish highland secret garden
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With wild chunks of land in the countryside and petite backyards in the capital, veg plots and flowerbeds, these are seven of our favourite Scottish gardening bloggers. Dig in!
Win beautiful autumn-planting crocuses in our zoomed-in quiz!
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Win a stunning collection of autumn planting crocus bicolour collection in the T&M ‘zoomed in vegetable’ quiz, and brighten up your garden for spring.
Use your knowledge (or guesswork) to identify the nine vegetables we’ve zoomed in on here. Enter your name and email address when you’ve answered the questions to join the T&M mailing list, and we’ll enter you into a prize draw to win these beautiful bulbs in time to plant for the autumn. Terms and conditions are below, and the competition ends on XXXX
• Competition is open to UK residents who are 18 years of age or over.
• Entrants are free to take part without entering email addresses, but these will not be eligible for the prize draw.
• Winners will be selected by random draw.
• Closing date for entries is XXXXX
• All prize winners will be notified by email, before XXXXX. If they do not make arrangements to claim their prize within 7 days, a new winner will be chosen.
• No alternatives, credits or cash substitutions are available for the prize.
• This competition is free to enter. No purchase is necessary.
• Any entry from members of Thompson & Morgan (or associated organisations) staff, or their families will be disqualified.
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• In the event of a dispute in respect of any aspect of the Competition, the judges’ decision is final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into.
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