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Talkback: Growing tomatoes outdoors

and cherry toms (It was a lottery what seedlings got to grow as my 2 year old son took all my labels off when they were tiny seedlings! Next year they are going in the flower bed in a sunny spot. After the disastrous blight which affected both potatoes by mel

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28/11/2011 18:41:14

by Anonymous

turbo plants

grow many plants from them. Some people have real problems with tomato blight, in which case grafted plants would be well worth a go. The same thing goes if you're growing yours for a show. Otherwise I think it's more fun to use seeds. Emma by newallotmenteer

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25/01/2012 15:06:26

by Emma Crawforth

Growingspuds for Chistmas...

After growing spuds successfully for several years in bags, I had hoped the 3rd year trying for Christmas spuds might have been within my grasp but me thinks set back with late blight, the plants are not looking very healthy and with the threat by Zoomer44

06/10/2012 01:10:40

by Insomnia1973

Inherited pear tree help

on and there is a lot of dead wood on the tree. It was also smothered in Ivy which I have now cleared from the tree. I have found a few websites which imply its infected with Blight but now I am finding it hard to identify a product or method to treat this. Do I by Russell Price

15/10/2012 18:00:34

by Berghill

Old Compost

Simon Yep-best thing do with it-as a soil conditioner Don't do it if you had Blight though, or at least, don't use the compost in areas where you are going to grow potatoes or tomatoes. I use all old compost, planters as a soil coditioner on my clay soil by Simon5

08/01/2013 13:30:56

by Simon5

potato varieties

cloud8 I buy my potatoes from Whitchurch Potato Day in Hampshire they have loads of different ones, I did buy from Garden Centres before, the best ones to go for are first early or second early as main crop are more likely to get blight. http by cloud8

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31/12/2012 16:45:36

by Happy Gardener2

Which spuds to get...

and they keep. I prefer the skins off. Can't grow main crop because of blight and colorado beetles. We eat rice and pasta more often anyway. by Zoomer44

13/01/2013 22:57:00

by Busy-Lizzie

Lonicera Nitida

of low box hedges around beds. The box succumbed to box blight and the hedges were replaced with Lonicera nitida. They were happily trimmed with both electric and hand clippers, although into straight edges, so don't see why they can't be made into ball by Rosa carriola

03/02/2013 05:14:52

by not faraway

Best tasting cherry tomatoes

have a really tomatoey flavour, if you know what I mean. I found Sungold at least as good as Gardeners' Delight, and they seemd to resist the blight quite well too. I grew Sungold for the first time last year - unbelievably sweet and will grow again by Verdun

15/01/2013 05:35:48

by muddy mare

Talkback: Allotment hits and misses

I and my fellow plot holder's also had a bad year with tomatoes thanks to Captain Blight, the only survivors on our site this year are in greenhouses, I wonder what i will be building over the winter lol What is wrong with our potato's. We grew them by supernanny

28/11/2011 18:39:23

by sedwards

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