No, as Kristen says you don't want to feed them yet. There are enough nutrients in the soil / compost for the plants, only add a feed rich in...
Mine were planted 8 weeks ago and they're 50cm tall and going mad, so there's something gone wrong I feel. How deep did you plant them? And...
I've just nipped out to the garden centre to see what they have... to be honest I'm not averse to using sprays if there's no way around it. I've...
Just opened up the greenhouse this evening to water and check on things, and I noticed one of my sweet peppers has it's first open flower.......
It's not Jaggery is it? My Indian friend tells me that's a solid block of sugar which they grate, but she's not aware of a sugar beginning with "k".
I was in Lavenham in Suffolk a couple of weeks back, where they have a rather impressive Church. When I went inside, there was quite a large gift...
What branch of Asian cookery? In Thai and that sort of regional cooking, Palm sugar is commonly used. Up until recently you'd need to visit an...
Buy the bags of seed potatoes from somewhere like Homebase, they're virtually chitted already. I gave them an extra couple of weeks in the...
Welcome to the site! I'm new to veg growing too. Hopefully you'll find good tips here.
The chitting shouldn't be a problem, most seed potatoes that you'll find at this time of the year should have quite well developed eyes... they'll...
I use an organic feed (Westlands Nutri Plant Feed) on all my vegetable plants barring the tomatoes.... there be no chemicals in there.... You...
As said above, the felting wasn't done right... it should have been nailed on the underfelt, and the top felt just sits on top of that, nailed at...
Thank you all for the tips, we'll give them a good soak tomorrow and tease them apart and re-pot. I was worried about root disturbance after a...
Welcome Yorkie! Hopefully you'll get some good tips here, and maybe give us some good tips too. :thmb:
I think they're just nettles aren't they? I got an identical plant growing out of the base of my fence last week, I just put the gloves on and...
My wife potted some Impatiens (busy Lizzies) and Petunia plants together in large pots some weeks back... but being inexperienced she placed...
Indeed, red ants don't like a weak detergent spray. If it's black ants, get those bait stations down immediately, that should clear the problem...
I'm also going with rabbits, they'll strip your greens given an invitation! (An invitation is basically a gap in the fence in any semi rural...
Courgettes do fine in a big container, just get a nice big pot (as large as you can comfortably manage) and plant one per pot. I went for...
My, just coming back to this thread and noticed it's only been 2 weeks since my potato plants were starting to sprout a handful of leaves, and now...
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