Here is my open ground entry for 2017- the runt of the batch. [img]Planted today and covered with a plastic bottle cloche. [img]It has...
Very sad to report that in my effort to pack 3 square metres of plants onto 3 windowsills which could only support about half of that amount, the...
You can grow all manner of things in containers. [IMG]Courgettes and butternut squashes inside buckets protected by car tyres. [IMG][IMG]...
Pallet wood window boxes: [IMG][IMG]These were built about a year ago from heavy duty pallets discarded by ToppsTiles. No heavy duty brackets...
[IMG]I was taking minimal preventative measures against blackfly by placing a mature hybrid lavender next to the beans and it worked...[IMG]...
Have a gander at solar cookers which are large reflective dishes that focus the sun's energy onto a cooking pot. They are cheap and easy to make...
I finished these over the May Bank Holiday weekend, one raised bed and two planters:[IMG][IMG]They were built from pallets donated to us...
Sadly, there is no more space on the windowsills to fit bigger pots so the next time they are potted on will be when they are outdoors....
What did I do with the Naga Morich tops?[img][img]I grafted them onto Morrisons bell pepper rootstocks, of course.The result are proper...
Seeing Shiney's Nagas being so prolific with fruit last year, I thought to myself why not use a Naga to augment the Trinidad Moruga Scorpions that...
Gammazon, that behemoth intergalactic merchant trading company, faced a major problem when it came to housing their five billion-strong cloned...
Banned from joining in? Well, yes, but only if you are inept at mathematics or at stamping out numbers for a bovine computing machine, otherwise...
We experienced two short bursts of sleet earlier today but I think I am going to chance it by leaving mine unprotected.
Let us carefully consider the volumetric properties of this innocent looking newborn potato:[img]Is it bigger than a 14 litre Wickes...
The progress of my entry so far:[img]As you can see, I've gone for the everything in the bucket approach - none of that earthing up, layer by...
That is verboten!From the imaginary book of unspoken gardener's rules, rule 45, line 8:"Growing two different varieties of potato in the same...
The tubers inside must be whoppers as well - just look at what they've done to your bucket.
Last year's Tumbling Toms produced masses of fruit. I attributed this mostly down to their healthy root systems, therefore, it would only be...
My Tumbling Tom / Picasso grafts were all done using the cleft graft (same as JWK):[IMG][IMG][IMG][IMG]Seven of these were completed -...
O ye, of little faith. [img]Of course it works. I also tried it with Picasso seeds potatoes (on the right-hand side).
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