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Jayne Hickling MCI Hort
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BA Hons. PGCE. MCI Hort. 🌾 BBC Radio Garden Expert 🎥Snippet on Sunday #howtogarden films 🌱 Full Member : Chartered Institute of Horticulture 👩‍💼Chair Community Garden Projects. ⛲️Trustee Lincolnshire Garden’s Trust 🌏Lincolnshire: UK
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What could you be doing now in your garden?
Introducing my new series of GYO Shorts, for a quick burst of what you can be doing in your allotment or garden- there’s always something to do. So let’s not forget our gardening friends! #allotmentuk #allotments #garden #gardening #gyo #hedgehogs 🌱🌿💚 🦔
November 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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All change at this time of the year… and it’s time to get clearing out the polytunnel and facing exciting growing futures! It’s been a muddy one! Gloriously mucky! #peatfree #sustainability #growyourown #polytunnel #allotment #sponsored Heart of Eden (AHS Ltd) 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #allotment #polytunnel
October 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Check out my recipe card… Yesterday was technically “Apple day”, but with this year’s fruit trees falling into their mast year/ there’s plenty to get harvesting and plenty of recipes. This one’s a beauty! 🍎🌱🌿💚 🧑‍🍳
#recipe #apple #appleday #recipecards #applerecipes #applecake
October 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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It may be autumn… but for me this is the true start to the gardening year! Although… I have a cautionary confession this week… which proves that even experienced gardeners can do silly things!! 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #allotment #growyourown #gardener #sustainablegarden

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Green Manure- Field Beans
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September 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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4 plots,teach 4 days,run a business, lead community gardening,a trustee + brand ambassador +family? 1 person! (my fab family enabling me!) getting winter ready with a compost delivery. But shifting well over 5000L of pure gold is hoofty! I hurt! But I’m happy! #sponsored @heartofeden_ahs 🌱🌿💚 #garden
September 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Crazy weather- but still needing a gardening fix… here’s a great one for this time of the year… a spot of cuttings and propagation!
🌱🌿💚 #gardening #garden #propagating #allotmentuk
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Propagation - Basil
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September 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Sorting out a job which I’ve been needing to do in my own back garden. If something isn’t working- it’s time for a change. Which includes some of my favourite non- edibles (although technically one is edible- but you know?!?
#garden 🌱🌿💚 #plants #hostas #ferns #heuchera
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Garden Spaces- Shade Planting
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September 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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It’s been a crazy few weeks- and I’ve been a bit AWOL on here, but if you’ve missed out on my weekly films… there’s three for you to “binge” watch! Seed saving- science of pectin and a bit of structure building for the perennial veg 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #allotments #gyo

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August 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Celebrating a double! It’s National Allotment Week in the U.K. and the focus is on wellbeing. I’m also celebrating 100 sponsored how to grow films for Heart of Eden Peatfree Compost. So this is more of my one to one view of allotment spaces 🌱🌿💚 #nationalallotmentweek #garden
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National Allotment Week 2025
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August 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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A fabulous day exploring the trial fields at @fothergills seeds this week at their media press day. So many exciting things to come in 2026!
#pr 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #seeds #fothergills
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#PR inspirational visit to @MrFothergillsSeedLtd exciting times. #everyonecangrow @SonilaTroka
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August 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Snippet on Sunday- it’s August- and I’m going to say it.. the weather is PANTS!! But- some of our homegrown produce rather likes it!! 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #growfood #salad
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Container Growing- Salad Leaves
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August 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Somehow we’re back into seed saving marathons- but this week I’m focusing on my very special Beth’s Sunflowers Charity Sunflowers. The happy flowers, brilliant seeds and the amazing things which can be done with them! #seedsaving #gardening #sunflowers 🌱🌿💚 #garden
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Seed Saving- Beth’s Sunflowers
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July 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Not my usual Sunday thanks to a slight medical situation of insect allergies (not great for a gardener!!? But at least this was one I had filmed (not edited) earlier! All about those tomatoes- and not stripping all of the leaves off!! Not yet!! 🌱🌿💚 #gardening

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Trimming Tomatoes- Polytunnel Growing
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July 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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So scorchio- even the cucumbers are feeling the heat… but- there’s something to be done about that!!
🌱🌿💚 #gardening #growyourown #veggiegrower #communitygrowing
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Polytunnel Growing/ Cucumbers & Melons
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July 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Eggplant or aubergine, when it comes to successional planting- these are very timely to get out in the ground now! Snippet on Sunday- just keep growing! 🌱🌿💚 #allotment #aubergine #eggplant #veggrower #gardening

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Successional Planting- Aubergines - Eggplants
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July 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Just in case you thought I was just about the edibles… here’s something a bit more floral and how to keep them going (tbh- for the pollinators to pollinate the fruit and veg.. but- you know!) 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #pollinators #deadheading #allotment #cottageflowers

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Pollinator Bed- Dead Heading
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June 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I replaced my usual snippet on Sunday this week to honour @saralimback.bsky.social For those of you not on Instagram- you maybe unaware of the loss of this absolute hero of community gardening & horticulture. A massive loss to all 🌱🌿💚 privileged to have filmed her last year
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Community Growing Edible Bristol
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June 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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It has been a crazy week and a half- with so much to catch up on… if you missed BBC Gardener’s World Live at the NEC- here’s the link to my interview with headline gardener Nick Bailey, talking about his design, ahead of the build, mixed with film from the end product!
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BBC Gardeners World Live- Nick Bailey interview
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June 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Being the allotment cook- I do also cook!! 🤣🤣🤣 here’s my latest vegan recipe: Vegan Shawarma on flatbread with mint yoghurt- very conveniently grilled outside. Own grown and homemade! 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #recipes #growyourownfood

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Vegan Shawarma on flatbread- Blackstone BBQ griddle
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June 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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My regular weekly Snippets on Sunday - this week all about growing sweet potatoes in zone 8- in the U.K.
🌱🌿💚 #gardening #veggrowing #growyourown #allotment #gardener #backyardveg

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June 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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A wet, windy day here in Lincolnshire… so a spot of using a simple harvest from the garden for creating kitchen staples.
Follow the link for this recipe and more. 🌱🌿💚 👩‍🍳 #chive #chivevinegar #vinaigrette #plottoplate #potager #kitchengarden #recipe

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June 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Growing our own is often about being frugal as well as for the pure joy! Creating growing structures doesn’t need to be expensive! 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #allotments #gardenstructures #vegetablegrower

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Growing Structures- Frugal Three Sistets’ Arch
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June 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Don’t plant that there!! Well- I did! Beautiful horseradish- In its own raised bed, confined for last 4 years. Yes- it can spread, but biggest issue is depth!! It can grow 7 foot deep… I’m ok with that! But if you’re not- it can still be planted in containers- at least 36 inches deep. 🌱💚🌿 @gardening
May 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I like to try something a little unusual each year… and this is a real powerhouse of edimental inspiration - mixed with a large batch of recycle sustainability! 🌱🌿💚 #gardenspaces #gardening #vegetablegrower #allotments

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Growing Spaces- The Bean House
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May 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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It’s hot in the uk and we may think that we’ve missed the boat on some of our seed sowing, but rather than baking ourself and our plants in a greenhouse… warm weather equals warm soil… time to direct sow and for me it’s my beetroots and chard! 🌱🌿💚 #allotment #gardens #gyo

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Direct Sowing - Beetroot and Chard
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May 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM