Good to hear :-)I've high hopes, 100% germination and a lot of other plots at out allotment had great results with sweetcorn last year!
Really interested to see how his pans out. So far only 3 parsnips have germinated this year direct sowed out of 2 rows!I noticed Dobbies are...
Am growing sweetcorn for the first time this year. Their currently in modules hardening off in my plastic greenhouse.Should I be expecting mouse...
It has been really warm and humid here, plus a lot of rain over the last few days. Have trimmed off affected leaves - hopefully I'm either wrong...
Is that because you don't think it's a good idea to put them on the compy Pete?I was hoping ours would last longer tbh, but we ran out of truly...
What's left of our stored onions from last year have reached their end - any pros or cons to putting the best part of half a bag of...
I was minded to return to this thread last night. Last season was our first on our allotment and we spent a lot of time digging over the heavy...
We also mulched our allotment last year with newspaper, wetted down with a watering can and covered in grass clippings. Then in the autumn mulched...
I started all our Chilli's deliberately super late last year to stop them going too leggy. Didn't sow til April and worked out just fine so plan...
This is how we did ours on our allotment last year. Short rows of say 4/5 plants x3 rows of earlys, then the next block up, 2nd earlys etc. Like...
We're still processing some of 2014 here! :snork:The last of last year's onions are now on the turn!.. trying to think if there's anything...
My Isle of Wight garlic (can't remember the exact variety) for planting came like that this year - had about 5 cloves over 2 whole bulbs! I've had...
We got about the same as Pete's above per plant. We grew Sarpo Mira due to their claim to be highly blight resistant and I can confirm that we...
Awesome stuff :-) One day when I have more space I would love to do something like this. I hear Tilapia are the ideal fish for small-scale...
I've heard some people put garlic bulbs in the freezer for a bit before planting out for this reason. No idea if it really helps or not thought.
Has anyone ever made any good drinks with foraged nettles before? I had some white wine a while back with nettles in which was amazing... never...
Ok... looked in every garden centre in town and could not find any Bordeaux Mixture. Asked an older, wise looking employee at Wyevale today who...
...Starting to sound like an enviromesh salesman! :snork:It was this blog that got me into trying it: www.clementsfarm.co.uk
Doh! Well I'll try anyway - using the slightly larger grade stuff over Pak Choi and it has worked well to stop the flea beetles that are prolific...
Next season I'm planning on hooping a whole row on the allotment for brocolli and sprouts and covering with fine-grade enviromensh.... so I'll...
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