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Talkback: Cabbage white caterpillars

to be consumed thus exacerbating the problem by allowing the cabbage white populations to increase. The same goes for potato blight if people just leave the haulms to propagate spores. Gardeners should look after their crops or compost them? We love to see by Maaike

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28/11/2011 18:37:14

by gardenerbest

Talkback: Planting garlic

> The broad beans produced outer shells only. Potatoes did'nt crop well.The tomatoes got blight.Disappointed, I have grown veg for years in my back Garden. I have just planted some Albigensian garlic bulbs to overwinter in my raised beds and so am delighted by Moss Rose

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28/11/2011 18:39:44

by the garlic guy

Talkback: Wormery composters

years I have had tomato blight, I am giving up hope of ever growing tomatoes, I have tried the grow bags. a friend told me I might have to leave the ground for 7 years before I can grow tomatoes again, is this trueCheersDesperate to grow tomatoes by Neil

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28/11/2011 18:40:01

by composter

Talkback: Seed potatoes

here to plant seed potatoes, unless you're thinking of popping a few into pots in a greenhouse! Sarpo Mira is great, very dense flesh and wonderfully resistant to blight, not my favourite for flavour but certainly has a lot of plus points! i am growing by Tom Tom

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28/02/2012 19:33:11

by tillys boy

Talkback: Watering plants

as long as there wasn't any blight. I sowed my runner beans(St.George)into a unheated propagator at the beginning of May.By the middle of the month I had plants large enough to plant out into a prepared trench two spits deep,with bucket loads of garden by Josephine from Wilts

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28/11/2011 18:40:51

by SuzieQ

Talkback: Unpleasant plant smells

gardener. thank you . Sorry, but It sounds like your new purchases may have box blight - a really virulent disease that is often hard to catch early. It may start with 1 or 2 rust coloured leaves which pass unnoticed as all plants lose the odd leaf. Some by Marinelilium

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01/07/2012 03:04:08

by susan_lily

Curly leaves on tomato plants...

leaves now growing are very green and healthy (so far!). I was worried about some form of blight, but this seems like logical precautions to make a happy plant! Many thanks for the advice to all so far! Hi All, I too am seeing the leaves on my tomato by Garden Maniac

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10/05/2012 06:48:04

by Italophile

Thank you so much

useless for cooking). No blight but the awful snigs!! I just got so fed up that I haven't been down to do any work for about 2 months. Has anyone else felt like this. I await with bated breath for a reply. Hi Jonus, welcome I've arranged for us all by asilvert

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06/12/2012 23:11:46

by artjak

Digging a vegetable Plot

, thistles and nettles. My other half then rotavated it, because it was too heavy for me to dig. I dumped a trailer load of Horse manure on a plot 4m by 15m. (a good 6inch deep) I then planted potatoes. Despite the blight last year we got a good crop by Jayn

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20/05/2013 15:57:42

by Mummy Muddy Paws

The Blessing of a new Allotment

basis as they keep growing towards the light. They'd better be bloomin' worth it. Last year the whole allotment got blight, so this year I'm trying a blight resistant one, which is frankly a bit weedy so far. When I transplanted my toms I did take by Dean Lovett

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13/06/2012 18:56:26

by Dean Lovett

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