Is that all it is, just the tartness of the sticks? Why the big fuss then as other people have said you shouldn't do it...
Hello everyone, Can you tell me why I shouldn't be harvesting my rhubarb now? I've read one book which says don't harvest after July, and...
My lilies have now finished flowering and I don't know what to do next. Do I leave them to die back or cut them down? Do I remove the bulbs...
Claire, I think ds would be glad to hire him out as he wouldn't have to do the dandelion hunt every morning!
We've got the WIld Flower Key, by Francis Rose, published by Warne. We have a tortoise so we actually need weeds, in fact we have a bag of weed...
Alice, can I have the recipe for green tom soup. All I did last year when blight hit was make chutney, and I've still got lots left! When you...
Don't you just love it? Also, courgette/marrow and ginger jam. Fab. Look on the Good Food mag website. Think I've got some of my CHristmas...
Can you pollenate a female pumpkin/squash flower that hasn't opened yet, or should it have opened of its own accord? I thought you had to catch...
Well, I've just ordered a small piece of enviromesh to try out as I saw a cabbage white size up my netting and squeeze through! I hope it comes...
I've got some sweet mama squashes growing but they are now moderately large but taking on an orangey colouration. I was reading elsewhere that...
It was the plant as well as the seed potato, so I assumed it was blight damage. I'm keeping an eye on the pots.
I got some hundreds and thousands, amongst others, though they are a bit too small. They've so far escaped the blight, and in the sun just today...
I dug up all my pots this morning and pulled all the tomatoes. I didn't check yesterday as I didn't feel like it but this morning, a couple of...
My French beans aren't good this year. Curly too. I put it down to the seeds being from last year, even though they are still 'in date'. Loving...
Via scroogle.org You were fairly high up, maybe top 10, but after gardening banter. I was searching for gardening forums.Liz
So, I've just been reading the various threads about blight. I have some brown patches on some stems. Do I strip the large fruit off to ripen...
I made marrow and ginger jam from the Good Food mag website. It is delicious. Also, from elsewhere, marrow and lentil bake, curried courgette...
Wow! Thanks Kristen. So, what I thought was blight wasn't. But the toms had brown leathery patches on, though not all. It seems to have...
Hiya Andybike, I'm in Bristol.
I've just been reading through the 'Which tomato variety' thread and I wondered what blight looks like in tomatoes, as I wonder if mine had it...
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