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Geoff Hodge Web Editor Peterborough

I've been a horticultural journalist for 19 years, a gardener for longer than I want to think about and a veg grower for 25 years.

  • Date Joined: 21 Nov 2006

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  • Massed seedlings

    Geoff Hodge on 28 Apr 2008 at 06:06 PM

    As predicted last week, this weekend involved plenty of pricking out and potting on. And, as far as the veg garden was involved, that was about the size of it. That’s the problem with any form of seed sowing – the seeds only take up a pot or tray when you sow them, but each plant needs its own cell in... Read More...

  • Crazy weekend

    Geoff Hodge on 21 Apr 2008 at 09:10 AM

    Yet another forecast for a mixed bag of weather meant that this weekend I needed to get cracking early – just in case, just in case things turned really nasty and put the kybosh on my plans. As a result I was out in the garden by 8o’clock on both days. The weather wasn’t as bad as I’d expected – Saturday... Read More...

  • In & out

    Geoff Hodge on 16 Apr 2008 at 04:18 PM

    Because we’ve been away the last couple of weekends and haven’t managed to spend much time on the garden or on the allotment, jobs were beginning to pile up – and both my girlfriend Clare and I were beginning to get just a tad twitchy about the situation. So this weekend we were going to get on with... Read More...