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Talkback: Growing tomatoes: dos and don'ts

This is my first year of trying to grow tomatoes - will need to keep this blog and refer back to it. I do love this site, so great to just click the mouse and get so much free info! Did get blight last year and ruined the plum toms and affected by growing tomatoes

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28/11/2011 18:40:31

by John from London

Talkback: Watering vegetables

of golfballs mine do at the moment, Are the too close together? planted potatoes as Monty instructed.I have take the early potatoes from the bag they are like marbles. Were have i gone wrong. I have just discovered tomato blight has struck my cherry tomatoes by John.J.R.P.

28/11/2011 18:38:56

by MattR

Potato confusion

have raised beds and they were installed last year. Really liked the description of it being extremely blight resistant. Any other hint or tips on varieties would be great. Thanks I've never had a problem with blight in first earlies, they have been by Greenbucket

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09/03/2013 15:34:42

by Greenbucket

Talkback: Courgette rot

wood preservative is safe to use on rough wood used for a raised bed. I will be growing fruit and vegetables in this.Thanks. My courgettes eventually rotted, although not before getting a good crop. I thought it was blight, as the rot behaved like my by Linda Salfiti-Hoult

28/11/2011 18:39:32

by mdjlucan

box hedge health issue

pictures i can upload once ive worked out how to ,any info on this would be a great help as im not sure whether to return them or trim and hope?? Box can suffer from Box Blight which attacks the leaves and the stems. resulting in bare patches and die back by lizzy6

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01/03/2013 07:30:07

by discodave

Favorite tomatoes

of fruit. Be aware I grow in a large 10x12 greenhouse, lots of my friends with allotments who grow outside have been decimated by blight the last few years. Sungella sounds interesting. The coming summer is uncertain - hot? cold? wet? dry? whatever, I by John Reynolds

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11/03/2013 15:07:39

by Brumbull

Talkback: Heritage vegetables

, give some of the old varieties a go! I agree with Adam, I tried some Heritage varieties this year and also had problems. I tried Brandywine and Black Russian. Yields were poor although the flavour of Brandywine was good both suffered badly from blight by Helen

28/11/2011 18:30:17

by astestraize

Black potatoes.

to be wrong, aside from where the slugs had dined, but upon digging the tubers up I started noticing problems. Can I blame slugs, the excessively wet weather or is some other factor responsible (don't let it be blight, i've still got my reds in the ground by virgin on the ridiculous

30/07/2012 14:54:36

by obelixx

Potatoes grown in a sack

produced. I have now given up on sacks and plant in the open ground. Problems there are slug damage and blight, but earlies lifted in June/July are usually OK. Growing in a bag requires carefull watering and regular feeding and must be a skill some people by Gmitch2000

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19/04/2012 18:25:51

by shropshire rat

spuds

first earlies They were very nice tasting although on the small side (its this darn weather brought on the dreaded blight so up they came) anyway Homeland was the variety of choice this year I enjoyed them so much im going to plant the same variety by 4711

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19/06/2012 09:50:12

by 4711

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