After losing all my tomatoes on my allotment to tomato blight, yet again, I am reviewing everything I do and have come across "tomato cages, which...
Hi Bovey,The nylon curtain (it's about 3 1/2 ft high) stops the carrot fly getting to the carrots and it's never emoved - should last about...
Oh by the way, Flinty, you must be on the same allotment as I am! I'm sure it's on a flint mine! One job everyone has to do, at least, once a...
Hi Flinty,I'm only thinking of doing it with the carrots and garlic. At least that reduces the amount of rotation I have to do. I did it this...
I have found the perfect spots in my garden for growing garlic and carrots and I've got the soil right so I'm thinking of not rotating these two...
Thanks again, everybody,I'm glad I asked the question because I've always wondered why leeks are planted that way but, as I've said, no book...
Thanks everybody! What you've said is what I do and for the same reasons. I just wondered whether there was some elaborate scientific answer that...
Hi Marley,Thanks for that info! My wife said she was given some phlox last year and split them up and they came up this year - and now I...
My wife says that she remembers, as a child, watching her grandfather splitting-up his phlox for transplanting at the end of one year so as to...
I always trim the roots on my young leeks to about an inch in length and trim the leaves a small amout to suit - as instructed in just about every...
You may be right, perhaps they are "Everlasting". I'll have ask the chap who gave them to me, once again, to see if I get a different story!If...
Thanks for your reply but that's the problem - with summer fruiting raspberries you tie up the new shoots you want to keep and cut back the...
I was given some raspberry plants last year and told they were summer fruiting but this year they didn�t start to fruit until about a month...
Having had, almost, my whole crop of tomatoes ruined by blight this year, I did a bit of research and found three tomatoes that, so it is claimed,...
I must admit, I had decided to re-pot the tree (that's why I bought the John Innes No 3, etc., and a much bigger pot) until I saw all the new,...
Just thought I'd like to let all who responded to my earlier post know that my lime tree lost all its leaves but, instead of dying, has many new...
Sorry! I seem to have thanked the wrong person!I flicked through the posts, saw the web address, then, scrolling down too far, saw the name,...
Thanks, Pete, for that website.The article says that the yellowing of leaves on citrus during the summer can be a result of a deficiency of...
Hi again Sarraceniac,Just had another look at the photo you sent and that's just how our lemon tree looks.I remember now changinmg its soil...
Hi Sarraceniac,Thanks for replying! I think that my wife and I have been over-watering all the citruses but the lime (being so small) has come...
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