Hi all.Bought some patty pan seeds from netto and did the usual thing - started them off as soaked seeds for a few days until they put out...
Hi all.I'm a cheapskate, so have been trying chitted supermarket spuds for the last few years. I rotate the plots each year, and fingers...
Hi all.Well, as an experiment, I potted up the brassicas, and well over half of them are doing fine, and have put on a spurt of growth in the...
Hi all. A belated happy new year to you all. :-)My brassicas from last autumn planting got repeatedly attacked by an big pigeon and friends,...
Hi.Slugs have attacked my few winter brassicas while I wasn't looking..... An idea I had was to plant some brassica seeds (cabbage, pak choi...
Hi all.I've got some swedes growing here and there from this year's saved seeds (and I'm sure some have self-seeded) A couple seem to be...
Thanks guys.I didn't know blight was airborne - given the prevailing wind in the garden, this makes some sense.... I'll try the preparations...
Hi all.Looks like this got many of us for at least the 2nd year running.......I did try armillatox, applied earlier this year as per...
Hi.I got some really great, juicy, deep red early greenhouse gardener's delight for the 3rd year running (almost like sweets :) ) From the 3...
FWIW, this year the toms by the sunny bit of the fence got really blighted. Perhaps I didn't use enough armillatox last year........ ?Happily,...
I rang the local council about putting the sad remains of my blighted 2007 tomatoes in the green waste bin last year. I was given the number of a...
Hi Adam.I just wash them briefly, then put them on an old piece of fine metal mesh on one of the slats in the airing cupboard for a few days,...
I put my lifted onions in the airing cupboard for a week (the heating is off) They seem nicely dried now, and the ones with thick necks will get...
Charlottes, Juliettes and Anyas (chitted supermarket potatoes) did well in containers this year. A big advantage with containers is the lack of...
Do you have a greenhouse? I had a big pot with some transplanted into it that survived in an unheated greenhouse in winter 2006/2007, even through...
Prastio - nice tip about the flower tip! - I'll do that in future. They're still edible enough when large (a particularly big 2006 specimen was...
Hi Rosie. The courgettes I've grown can get up to 12" or more, like a marrow, if left to do their thing in the right conditions. But they seem to...
Hi All.In case any of you hadn't found out yet, a petition was launched yesterday to lobby the government to ban aminopyralid, which is the...
Hi Fretters. I can't stop rocket from growing in the garden! Last year I paid no attention to the yellow-flowered seed heads on the rocket...
JWK - I was planning on getting some pallets from a friend, and looking at her design to see how she did it, but in fact you guys are far more...
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