May 12th 2008
The TopVeg website always provide me with excellent seed sowing information.
Farming Friends & TopVeg have now collaborated to create a How To Grow Runner Beans growing card.
Click on the image to enlarge and if you wish to print off this growing card, right click on the enlarged image and then click print picture to print out a copy. If you would like this document as a pdf, just contact farmingfriends and I will email you the document.
I intend to print off copies and then laminate the sheet so that I can use the growing card in the future.
Teachers, children, vegetable growers and anyone interested in growing runner beans are welcome to print off this growing card for their own use.
Other growing cards we have already created;
If you have any other growing cards that you would like Farming Friends & TopVeg to create then please leave a comment and we will be happy to create it for you.
Growing Cards Homegrown vegetables Runner Beans Vegetables
May 3rd 2008
Seasonal Food for May includes:
Apples - certain varieties.
Asparagus.
Broad beans.
Broccoli.
Cabbage.
Carrots.
Cauliflower.
Celeriac.
Duck.
Earliest tomatoes.
Eggs.
Gooseberries.
Green Cabbage.
Leeks.
Lemon sole.
Mint.
Onions.
Parsley.
Parsnips.
Potatoes.
Purple sprouting broccoli.
Red Cabbage.
Rhubarb.
Sardines.
Sea bass.
Sea trout.
Sprouts.
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Fish Food Fruit Meat Seasonal Food Vegetables
May 1st 2008
Courgettes are always a great success in my vegetable garden
The TopVeg website always provide me with excellent seed sowing information.
Farming Friends & TopVeg have now collaborated to create a How To Grow Courgettes growing card.
Click on the image to enlarge and if you wish to print off this growing card, right click on the enlarged image and then click print picture to print out a copy. If you would like this document as a pdf, just contact farmingfriends and I will email you the document.
I intend to print off copies and then laminate the sheet so that I can use the growing card in the future.
Teachers, children, vegetable growers and anyone interested in growing courgettes are welcome to print off this growing card for their own use.
Other growing cards we have already created;
If you have any other growing cards that you would like Farming Friends & TopVeg to create then please leave a comment and we will be happy to create it for you.
Courgettes Food Growing Cards Homegrown vegetables TopVeg Vegetables
April 29th 2008
I planted some red onion sets a few weeks ago and the shoots have just started to appear.
The TopVeg website was able to provide me with excellent onion planting information.
Farming Friends & TopVeg have now collaborated to create a How To Grow Onions growing card.
Click on the image to enlarge and if you wish to print off this growing card, right click on the enlarged image and then click print picture to print out a copy.If you would like this document as a pdf, just contact farmingfriends and I will email you the document.
I intend to print off copies and then laminate the sheet so that I can use the growing card in the future.
Teachers, children, vegetable growers and anyone interested in growing onions are welcome to print off this growing card for their own use.
Other growing cards we have already created;
If you have any other growing cards that you would like Farming Friends & TopVeg to create then please leave a comment and we will be happy to create it for you.
Food Growing Cards Homegrown vegetables Onion Sets Onions TopVeg Vegetables
April 25th 2008
Are guinea fowl eggs a speciality egg or just a small egg? I have been pondering this thought recently as I have decided to sell some guinea fowl eggs for eating at the farm gate. As I made the decision to sell my eggs, the next question to answer was how much to charge?
I did the usual search on the internet and checked all the major supermarkets to see if they were selling guinea fowl eggs but couldn’t find any. After a discussion with my husband I decided to sell 6 fresh, free range guinea fowl eggs for £1. With this price chalked up on the chalk board at the farm gate, I had decided to market my guinea fowl eggs as a speciality, free range egg. I think that guinea fowl are a speciality breed as they are not widely found in the UK. My guinea fowl free range daily and I have noticed that the yolk is a rich yellowy orange colour with a superior taste to other eggs purchased from the supermarket.
A family member however, pointed out that the guinea fowl eggs are small and that they need to use 3 guinea fowl eggs for every two ordinary hen eggs and that the price of hen eggs is cheaper, so buying my guinea fowl eggs would not be cost effective for them.
I can see both sides to this debate. What are your thoughts on guinea fowl eggs? Do you think that they are a speciality egg and therefore worth paying more for or are they just a smaller egg and therefore more are needed for baking and eating and therefore should not cost as much as the free range hen egg? Let me know your thoughts.
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eggs Food Guinea fowl eggs
April 22nd 2008
Last week I planted some tomato seeds.
The TopVeg website was able to provide me with excellent seed sowing information.
Farming Friends & TopVeg have now collaborated to create a How To Grow Tomatoes growing card.
Click on the image to enlarge and if you wish to print off this growing card, right click on the enlarged image and then click print picture to print out a copy. If you would like this document as a pdf, just contact farmingfriends and I will email you the document.
I intend to print off copies and then laminate the sheet so that I can use the growing card in the future.
Teachers, children, vegetable growers and anyone interested in growing tomatoes are welcome to print off this growing card for their own use.
Other growing cards we have already created;
If you have any other growing cards that you would like Farming Friends & TopVeg to create then please leave a comment and we will be happy to create it for you.
Food Fruit Growing Cards Homegrown vegetables Seeds TopVeg Vegetables
April 9th 2008
I have harvested my first radish this week and I have to say that it was delicious. Thanks to the excellent growing advice from Topveg I have now been growing radish for the last two years successfully.
Farming Friends & TopVeg have collaborated to create a How To Grow Summer Radish growing card.
Click on the image to enlarge and if you wish to print off this growing card, right click on the enlarged image and then click print picture to print out a copy.
If you would like this document as a pdf, just contact farmingfriends and I will email you the document.
I find that radish tastes better when it is harvested young and has not had time to get woody and have a bitter taste.
If you have any recipes using radish then I would like to hear them, so please leave a comment - thanks.
Food Growing Cards Homegrown vegetables Radish TopVeg Vegetables
Click on the image to enlarge and if you wish to print off this growing card, right click on the enlarged image and then click print picture to print out a copy. If you would like this document as a pdf, just contact farmingfriends and I will email you the document. 
