.Some years ago I got to know a very old gardner, who always won the prize with his plate/plates of tomatoes, in the local village show!...
All the goodness in the hanging basket sompost/soil will have been used up and no amount of fertilizer will make it as good as this year!If...
What about cabbage root fly, I have discovered that broccoli, aut cauli's, savoys and ordinary cauli's planted about a month ago are all infected,...
Hi KirstenHave had a problem since I started growing brassicas, with white butterflies and netting.I have netting about a quarter inch...
Hi, As it said in this weeks Telegraph from a scientist, about 90% of "Organic crops" (his words) in the third world are destroyed by pests and...
. What are your leaves like Makka-Bakka?Horrible!!!!!!,.
. Your potatoes look very good, better to be safe than sorry!The leaves on my tomatoes in the greenhouse have looked terrible for weeks, but...
It is simply lack of sun.The fruit need sunshine, not heat. to turn the starch into sugars and we have had very little in July. (That is why...
. Ah!!!! BLIGHT.##Have pulled all the tops of the plants, and am hoping for the best.Will try to get them all dug before the tubers are...
My! you are going to be busy next season!Lots of lovely plants on the way, me thinks.Cheers
.Like Tim in the American DIY TV programme who says; "give me more power", then everything goes to pot.I say "beef tomatoes" have more...
Hi,I ordered Grande Fragrance pansies, they sent an e-mail saying they were for immediate deliverly, so I ordered them,impulse buying comes...
Ordered one pack of pansies on line last week, when I arrived home on Monday evening they had arrived!They have now been planted out in the...
.I planted some more Autumn Cauli's, winter cabbage and broccoli about two weeks ago! On Friday I noticed some off them were wilting and...
. Hi, Sodium chlorate is almost completely useless. I used it on the parking area beside the the Church three years ago it managed to stunt...
.Day off, wife headed for "the shops" me going to spend the morning at "the plot" and it is tipping it down here in "sunny Quedgeley"....
I grow April overwinter some years as well as Flower of Spring.I always find they bolt as soon as the weather warms up!.
I grow both Hipsi and Greyhound every year, and have had lots of each so far this season. As far as I am concerned they both are marvellous....
Cheers!
. Lupins are very deep rooted plants, they are much better planted into the ground than left in pots!They are also with me anyhow short...
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