Sounds like you got good deals there on some very nice stuff.
Homebase have Jamie Oliver boxed seed selection packs down to 50p. There's a Best of British veg, a Mediterranean pack and another one. For your...
I've harvested my two accidental pumpkins i.e. I didn't buy pumpkins but that's what they turned into. They aren't ripe yet but have grown to...
I've lived in hot countries and had these around. For a less extreme option than moving abroad, take a 'planty' trip abroad. I highly recommend...
Yes, it looks very much like a varigated hebe to me too.
That's a lovely phrase, 'armpit cutting'. I've taken several from my big indigo rose tomato. The one I kept is setting fruit.....little more than...
Oooh, I do like your Omar's Lebanese. Cat-faced or not, it's going to be big and beautiful. Can we have an That's Life-type competition for the...
Thanks. Funnily enough I got a bottle of that rband Bordeaux mixture this afternoon. Will do them as soon as there's no risk of it all immediately...
What fungicide should I use for prevention on the rest? (I'm not particularly an organic person and have an old hand-held pressure sprayer.)
....I have a lot of tomatoes and these particular ones were expendable plums crammed into a pot. I'm certainly no expert on this but it does...
I think I have early blight on a pot of Roma tomatoes. They have gone in the bin. PS Do I get a prize for being first? :gaah:
Yes, interested to see what's troubling your toms. Awaiting photo.
Yes, that looks like a fine way to spend a day. I'm only there for two full days, so stuff the castles and vineyards, and I'll go to this festival...
They are offering 'degustation', which is tasting. Fortunately the only bits of schoolkid French I remember are all the culinary terms. So if I...
Tempting. Might pop by my local branch again tomorrow.
This is a chateau in the Loire that has a 'thing' about tomatoes, cultivating 650 varieties and building up to an annual tomato festival, this...
I like having arming growing out my sides! But my tomatoes are in the garden so I can stake their arms widely apart. I do remove the side shoots...
Hiya silu, One thing to remember is not to save seed from the first plants to have mature seed...cos that way you're selecting for early...
...they do a nice range of large plant pots providing you can drill drainage holes in the bottom. I have all my salad leaves growing in £1.99...
Jenny: I think it'd do fine. Mine is in a tall pot and I gave it 30l of Lidl's peat-free, chicken manure pellets and slow release granules, so...
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