Our perfectly healthy seedlings have suddenly started looking very 'meh'. The bottom leaves are wilting and shrivling away. The upper leaves are...
Can anybody offer me advice on the following;best chickens to buy for complete beginners to chicken husbandry? how much space I will need to...
Has anybody done this? I would like to use this method to store some of our harvest this year and would appreciate any tips/advice on how to do so :-)
I did not even know that cabbages could do this! Have had them in since October and, just before the hot spell, they seemed to 'hearting up' and...
This is my first year growing broccoli and I have no idea when or how to harvest it! Purple spears have appeared at the top and sides of most of...
I had some great plants last year and saved the seeds. My father in law says that I should put the seeds in water before planting them to see...
Thank you all! No damage to seeds, they are all there I just do not know what is planted where anymore. I still have some of the expensive seeds...
Stood in the freezing cold garden last Sunday loading up the propagator with chili, pepper and tomato seeds (was particularly excited about some...
The strawberries had very rich soil and full sun in the afternoon I bought a Florence and a Christine this year.
I gave way to any patience that I've been trying to maintain and visited RHS Wisley today - bought chilli, tomato, pumpkin seeds, three different...
Thanks, I will have another look today with the above advice in mind. It's my first time growing broccoli (or anything through the winter!)
I have been growing purple sprouting broccoli through the winter. It looked great until the weather started to get warmer and now the lower leaves...
Thanks guys, I am getting pretty excited abut the idea of planting stuff again! :inautumnleaves:
I managed quite a good crop of potatoes last year through using those beginner kits from HomeBase. I would like to just buy the chittings? this...
My purple broccoli is about 2.5 feet tall and the winter cabbages are doing very well. Is there anything I ought to be doing to protect them...
The same happened to the last of my tomatoes - a late blight took the lot :( I had thought we'd escaped it this year but I've had to throw away...
Thank you! There are definitely some that are 100% green (not at all translucent) but I did not want all of the effort of the plant to be wasted...
I have lots of tomatoes that came late and will not ripen in this weather (or some I'm told). I tried to make green tomato chutney earlier this...
It tastes great - even if I say so myself! I had three different types of basil growing in the garden (sweet, Greek and Cinnamon) but they all...
Thanks! That's a relief! I was going to grow them in the same bed as some broccoli for next spring - will that be okay?
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