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Talkback: 'Grow Your Own' Week: Getting started
of mistakes, but I've had a lot of success as well. The first year I lost all my tomatoes to the dreaded blight, my dwarf french beans were covered in aphids, the brassicas were decimated by caterpillars and I stupidly sowed carrot's in modules by Jan
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28/11/2011 18:40:35
by cutie
Talkback: Seed potatoes and mice
potatoes bought from a shop what is the process once they are ready to harvest because I want to grow more next year but don't want to buy the seed potatoes again. I think I've got the dreaded Potato Blight. Black spots on loads of the leaves. First time by Marc
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28/11/2011 18:31:03
by empower network scam
Talkback: Growing potatoes and onions
, an early variety. Until recently I had two rows of very healthy looking plants. Then one at the end of a row started turning a bit brown, not as severly as the potato blight pics I’ve found on here but it seems to have now spread right along one row by ALEX
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28/11/2011 18:38:21
by ViMarie
Is it ever going to STOP!!!!
I am getting very very cross at this weather!!!   Everything in the garden is retarded...The dreaded blight got to the first earlies so up they came  on the plus side  they were very nice... The runners wont grow properly  they just start then stop by susan howard2
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02/07/2012 19:51:49
by Gaffelbiter
Talkback: How to grow tomatoes from seed
. Gartenpearl tomato plants can also be grown in hanging baskets. Last year most of my tomato plants were effected by "blight", so this year I'm growing baskets tomatoes along with "Basil" to the white fly leave them alone.......I live in hope that this year I by lbayston
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13/04/2012 20:28:51
by lionelshriver
Talkback: Couch grass
rags, cloths, or even bin liners, remove sun light from any plants equation and it can not photosynthesise this will starve the plant and kill it outright Or it could be used to make an organic spray for blight. weeding couchgrass can be a soothing by flowerbum
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14/04/2012 13:48:32
by estherp
Talkback: How to grow tomatoes in a greenhouse
aclimatise, a few days later drop the plant out of the small pot and into the ring, water in and leave. When all around me had blight I had tomato's right up to October, they need a bit of care. The bottemless pot allows the water through to the roots by landrover
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08/05/2012 17:49:53
by Blueboing101
Talkback: Autumn feast
comments from my elderly French neighbours (who garden from birth to death), that I tripled the size of my veg patch for this year. I lost most of my lovely pink fir apple crop & all my tomatoes to blight, & the courgettes have been poor. I understand by Keith Powney
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01/04/2012 15:51:46
by kalulu
Talkback: Passion for potatoes
Have not grown sweet potatoes but have had a very good crop of Valour -organic- with no trouble from blight. This may be due to the position I grew them in, near to my boundary which has a neighbours Leylandii up to the adjoining fence. Also have by Allan Horrocks
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28/11/2011 18:30:11
by BingyB
Talkback: Planting potatoes
they are in , the bigger they'll be by the time the blasted blight arrives. Ian I had planned to plant mine this weekend (Charlottes) but decided that the risk of frost was too great. I'm in the North East of Scotland, and I'm also a novice, so wouldn't want to lose my by denzilden
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27/02/2012 11:43:42
by Pat Y