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can you still grow tomatoes from seed

Posted: 25/06/2012 at 18:25

If you know someone with  tomato plants, you could pot up some off shoots. They root very easily.

Is it ever going to STOP!!!!

Posted: 24/06/2012 at 19:55

Just got back from my allotment - very lush. Cut a fine Hispi cabbage and dug new potatoes. Everything is need of a bit of sunshine.  Not have to water for a while.

Gardening in Aberdeenshire

Posted: 23/06/2012 at 18:55

@ obelixx. I have a half allotment in Edinburgh. You're right, I use lots of fleece and  a poly tunnel. I'm lucky to have sheltered sunny site. I tend to start off lots things in modules and grow suitable varieties. Everything is late this year. I expect to get a glut of broad beans and peas, as my second sowings are catching up with my first.

Whitefly

Posted: 12/06/2012 at 19:33

I plant french marigolds, whether they work or not...

Potatoes (again-sorry!)

Posted: 11/06/2012 at 19:48

@Julie J, with main crop potatoes the shaws/haulms/storks are sometimes cut off if blight is spotted. You wait the fortnight before you lift, to let the blight spores die off. With new potatoes if they are the size of a small egg; we have tatties for tea !

Talkback: Growing melons

Posted: 06/06/2012 at 20:31

I thought I might try and revive this thread. I'm growing Emir melons this season in a poly tunnel. Anyone else doing melons? I get the impression they can be temperamental.

Alternative Gardening

Posted: 03/06/2012 at 18:45

Figrat, yes grown on a bit further than you might normally. I'm growing them in 7 cm modules. As summerpots writes, seeds are difficult. no-dig-vegetable.com is a good site to read about lasagna gardening.

Alternative Gardening

Posted: 02/06/2012 at 20:27

I'm in the process of making a lasagne bed. I covered an area with cardboard and semi - composted stuff last Autumn. I've forked it over and layered it with cardboard and compost. I will plant it up with winter cabbage and kales. From what I've read, large transplants and enriched planting pockets are key.

Multi-lobed strawberries

Posted: 24/05/2012 at 20:57

Elsanta is poor variety for a home grower bred for shelf-life and to travel well. For home growing I think you can't beat 'Marshmellow'. Your plants are way ahead of mine,you must be in the south or growing under protection. Ugly berries? Who cares you've grown them!

Multi-lobed strawberries

Posted: 24/05/2012 at 20:49

Looks viral. The fruit is deformed. Is it an older strawberry bed? Are some leaves deformed/crinkly?

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