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, banana shallots. In November, sow some broad beans. Brighten the corners of your beds with Tete -a Tete daffodils. Plant now. Strawberries are a great hit with children so perhaps you could get some runners from one of the parents. Good luck. Reply

cabbages too, also Pak Choi. In November try broad beans.A vegetable patch needs more care than a flower garden, regular watering and attention is very important. Good luck. We have what we think is eel worm in our soil - we have a small garden. need

, and mowers that were for ever breaking down, so ,as I prefer biodiversity anyway, I decided to get rid of my three lawns and do some more interesting gardening. Glyphosate was the answer and I still can grow broad beans free of blackfly and seldom have any

to the spring now. that said the garlics are coming through and broad beans are still living in teh cold frame!:)Dougwww.wellrooted.co.uk Out in the garden, the sun shining, bulbs erupting everywhere, most of the climbers showing signs of life, the buds on some

flowered once a yr in the spring!!!I live in Kent, close to Rochester. Have just lifted some runner bean plants, after decimation from blackfly etc, and on the roots there are loads of brown 'egg type' squeezy things attached, can anyone tell me what

bother. Don't forget viburnum. A lovely shrub which is just finishing flowering now. The smell is exquisite. I put my french beans in and iv'e lost a few but something is eating them? i look to see what but no see hiding i think waiting till dark.any one

made a load of dilly beans using Alys Fowler's recipe. Great, but what happens next? How best to prepare them, cook them to eat in a few weeks' time? Just about to look for garlic to plant this autumn, any suggestions of which ones to plant

as a result and so got used as a top dressing for our blueberry bushes. The trunk was used as a pole for beans to scramble up. Just been given a little potted one this year which stands about 8 inch high!! is it not possible to pot it on year after

but the spring greens and winter kale seem fine and the few broad beans that had been showing above the soil before the snow came. We have another two months of winter to fear for the plants' safety but it makes sense,if you have any cover, to start seeds like

and the newly planted leeks and broad bean plants water wise as well. Otherwise it is war on the dandelions and bindweed and gathering great bunches of lily of the valley and anemones for the house now that my beautiful Mother's Day flowers have wilted. Hope