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Potato blight

By Pippa Greenwood on 31/07/2008 12:14:00

of your crop being affected the following year. You then need to harvest the potatoes (big and small) before it rains, otherwise the fungus will reach them and render them inedible and rotten. Luckily, the other day I was sent a potato blight testing kit


Blackfly on broad beans

By Jane Moore on 25/07/2008 13:47:00

and kills them, so weekly sprayings will usually do the trick. The good thing about using detergent is that it just washes away in the rain - even better if you use a green brand. Of course, blackfly are naturally preyed on by ladybirds, lacewings


Slugs

By Jane Moore on 05/09/2008 13:36:00

weather. And even my trusty copper rings aren't as effective as usual, due to such huge numbers. The rain has washed away the barrier gel and grit circles I also had in place around my lettuces.I also suspect that even the marvellous nematodes


Preparing the soil for planting

By Jane Moore on 03/10/2008 13:36:00

digging for me! All I tend to do is give the soil a thorough and deep forking over, breaking up any 'capping' on the surface caused by heavy rains. Mother Nature can take care of the rest of the work for me - winter frosts will kill slugs and break up


To chop or not to chop?

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 28/10/2008 12:26:17

the season. Which plants you cut back depends so much on personal taste and weather - lots of rain or heavy snow tends to make everything go 'flumpf' earlier (flumpf is, of course, a well-known horticultural term describing the process of plant collapse). It


Fig trees

By Jane Moore on 16/01/2009 15:16:35

We've swapped the 'big freeze' for 'wet and windy' this week. Suddenly the temperatures seem sub-tropical, even though it's only a few degrees above zero. I'm glad of some rain — it's been dry for a couple of months, which is unusual in these parts


Insects and snow

By Richard Jones on 11/02/2009 08:53:46

the lens they are strikingly coloured, metallic blue and black, whilst others are grey (cluster flies), green (green bottles) or even bronzy gold.It only stayed a few minutes before flying off. Now it's raining, and there are still no insects out there


Laura's allotment

By Jane Moore on 08/05/2009 15:03:54

's learned from trial and error, though she keeps The Vegetable Expert handy too! We had a good chat about generalities such as last year's rain and the prospects for this summer, then finally got on to more meaty topics like favourite varieties and Laura


Clover in lawns

By Adam Pasco on 20/07/2009 16:03:16

the station on some evenings I found myself battling through torrential rain, only to get home and find my garden was still bone dry. And there I was wishfully thinking I'd have an evening off from my summer watering routine!But back to the clover. Perhaps


Apricot trees

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 21/07/2009 12:01:25

. Apricot trees (Prunus ameniaca) grow particularly well there because of the south-western aspect and because, before the invention of the gutter, they got lots of rain - apricots need lots of water to prevent the fruit from splitting.I mention this because


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