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About Pippa Greenwood

Pippa Greenwood

Pippa has been gardening since she was four, when she would trail behind her mother as she tended her garden - she was soon given her own small plot of land. Her particular speciality is garden pests [...]

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Growing tomatoes outdoors

Posted in Grow & eat by Pippa Greenwood at 3:28 pm on Wednesday 25 August 2010 32 Comments
Close-up of Pippa Greenwood holding a handful of freshly harvested red and yellow tomatoes

I don’t often grow tomatoes outdoors, but this year I planted out leftovers from the greenhouse, which became massive and hugely productive.

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Birds, wasps and fruit

Posted in Grow & eat by Pippa Greenwood at 7:21 am on Wednesday 11 August 2010 18 Comments
Peaches

The peaches (‘Avalon’) cropped brilliantly, producing the biggest fruits yet, but as soon as they approached ripeness, the wasps attacked.

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Harvesting garlic

Posted in Grow & eat by Pippa Greenwood at 8:14 am on Wednesday 28 July 2010 19 Comments
Pippa Greenwood holding freshly harvested garlic bulbs by their 'necks'

This must be the first year that I’ve harvested a crop of garlic with no traces of rust: not a pustule in sight.

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Growing courgettes

Posted in Grow & eat by Pippa Greenwood at 12:53 pm on Wednesday 14 July 2010 16 Comments
Pippa Greenwood holding a basket of freshly harvested courgettes

I adore home-grown courgettes. They lack that slightly bitter taste and spongy texture you can get with supermarket specimens.

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Pests and problems

Posted in Gardeners' musings by Pippa Greenwood at 4:43 pm on Wednesday 30 June 2010 31 Comments
Scale insects on the back of a house plant leaf

This year we held our annual Gardeners’ Question Time Garden Party at our GQT garden at Sparsholt College near Winchester, Hampshire.

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