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5. A Grow-Your-Own Photographic Diary with Baby Bio Outdoor

September 22, 2016 by Catherine 9 Comments

using baby bio outdoor plant food for fruit and vegetables

Welcome to the final instalment for this year in my photographic diary series.

Since late Spring, I’ve been keeping a grow-your-own photographic diary of my allotment, and it’s been such a brilliant project.  It’s allowed me to follow my plants’ progress really easily, and given me a reference point for next year’s planning.  It’s also been hugely rewarding seeing the growing journey from tiny seedling right through to harvest.

To help my plants thrive and produce bigger crops, I’ve been using Baby Bio® Outdoor Fruit & Vegetables.

baby bio outdoor plant food for fruit and vegetables

Baby Bio® Outdoor Fruit & Vegetables is tailored to the needs of fruit and vegetable plants, giving you up to 35% more produce compared to using a standard fertiliser.  It aims to support healthy, balanced growth, resulting in bigger crops.  You can use it on all fruit, vegetables and herbs, so it’s great if you’re not quite sure which feed to use for which plant.

I started using Baby Bio® Outdoor Fruit & Vegetables on my grow-your-own crops back in May.  You only need to feed the plants every two weeks, and as it’s a liquid feed it’s very easy to add it to your watering can.  There’s even a handy measuring cup cap included, so you can get the right amount every time.

In between feeds, you just water your plants as you normally would.  I’ve set up a diary reminder to help me feed at the right intervals, which has been a big help during the chaos of school holidays!

In this last update, I’m going to show you each crop, from start to finish – shall we take a look?

Tomatoes

using baby bio outdoor for fruit and veg to improve plants' size, health and crops
grow-your-own photographic diary 2 tomato plant

grow-your-own photographic diary 3 tomatoes
grow-your-own photographic diary tomatoes

Courgettes

grow-your-own photographic diary courgette plants
grow-your-own photographic diary 3 courgette flower

grow-your-own photographic diary courgette flowers
grow-your-own photographic diary 3 courgette

Dwarf French Beans

grow-your-own photographic diary 2 dwarf french beans

grow-your-own photographic diary dwarf french beans
grow-your-own photographic diary tomatoes dwarf french beans

Sweetcorn

grow-your-own photographic diary sweetcorn
grow-your-own photographic diary 2 sweetcorn

grow-your-own photographic diary sweetcorn
grow-your-own photographic diary sweetcorn

Cucumbers

greenhouse cucumber
grow-your-own photographic diary 2 cucumber flower

grow-your-own photographic diary cucumber
grow-your-own photographic diary cucumber harvest

Chilli Peppers

greenhouse chilli peppers
grow-your-own photographic diary 3 chilli peppers

grow-your-own photographic diary chilli peppers
grow-your-own photographic diary chilli peppers

Runner Beans

grow-your-own photographic diary 2 runner beans
grow-your-own photographic diary runner bean plants

grow-your-own photographic diary 3 runner beans
grow-your-own photographic diary runner beans

Sweet Pointed Peppers

greenhouse peppers
grow-your-own photographic diary 2 peppers

grow-your-own photographic diary peppers
grow-your-own photographic diary sweet pointed pepper

Butternut Squash

grow-your-own photographic diary butternut squash plants
grow-your-own photographic diary 3 butternut squash

grow-your-own photographic diary butternut squash
grow-your-own photographic diary butternut squash

Wow.  How amazing to see a whole season in one place!  I’m feeling rather proud of my grow-your-own efforts this year – and also very pleased with the results from using Baby Bio® Outdoor Fruit & Vegetables.  It claimed to support healthy, balanced growth and deliver bigger crops, and I can honestly say it has lived up to it’s promises.  Now I’m off to deal with the bumper harvests!

I’ve been using the other product in the Baby Bio Outdoor range, Baby Bio® Outdoor Flowers & Shrubs, to take the Big Boost Challenge in my garden this Summer.  It’s made a huge difference, and I’ve been enjoying bigger, healthier plants with lots more flowers.  You can read more about my challenge here.

baby bio outdoor plant food big boost challenge

Have you been using Baby Bio® Outdoor on your grow-your-own crops this Summer?  If you have, I’d love to hear what effect it has had on your plants – and if not, will you be giving it a try now you’ve seen the results?

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Comments

  1. Jaime Oliver says

    October 3, 2016 at 7:30 pm

    oh my goodness your allotment is AMAZING! i always remember my mum having one but nothing much really grew there! i am so loving that you grew chilli peppers!

    My flowers in the garden this year look tired so might check this out and see if they do it for flowers too 🙂

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    • Catherine says

      October 4, 2016 at 9:05 am

      We are completely inundated with chilli peppers, I think a batch of chilli jam is a must. There’s a Baby Bio Outdoor for Flowers & Shrubs too, I’ve used it in my garden this year and it’s given me bigger plants with lots more flowers, really impressive.

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  2. Jane Taylor says

    October 3, 2016 at 7:33 pm

    Wow! Your allotment is amazing! I can’t believe it! You need to enter Ashover Village Show with those beauties! We went this year and your tomatoes would give them some serious competition. I’m going to tell my green fingered husband about it!

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    • Catherine says

      October 4, 2016 at 9:02 am

      I do love a village show, my allotment society has one every year and it’s always so inspiring – the kids love checking out all the giant veg too! Definitely give the feed a try, it’s made such a difference to my crops this year.

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  3. Becky says

    October 3, 2016 at 7:44 pm

    oh my goodness gorgeous !

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  4. Alex says

    October 3, 2016 at 7:46 pm

    Wow- everything looks amazing, so it really works then!? I shall try it out next year with my new raised beds.

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    • Catherine says

      October 4, 2016 at 9:01 am

      Yes it really does work – and it’s dead easy to use too. Great idea going for raised beds, they’re so much easier to take care of. I’m going to add some more to my allotment for next year to save me digging so much!

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  5. Amanda says

    October 3, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    Wow, what a bumper harvest you’ve had this year!! We have been growing veg in pots and boxes in our back yard, and we had great success with the tomatoes, carrots and beetroot (despite my being ill and unable to really keep up with their care). Unfortunately though the lettuce, marrow, and courgettes were completely obliterated by snails, despite my attempts to get rid of them 🙁 the sole surviving courgette plant has had multiple flowers on but they were always broken off before the courgette could grow! So I am super jealous of your courgettes and the squash too!!

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    • Catherine says

      October 4, 2016 at 12:02 pm

      Oh that’s such a shame! I can’t grow salad in our garden because of the pesky slugs – it’s better at the allotment, I think because they’ve got so much lovely food to choose from they don’t completely destroy any one plant. You can get copper tape to stick around the top of pots that stops them with a little electric shock – might be worth a try?

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