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Talkback: Plum trees
have enough room then growing that sweetest of plums, the Greengage or Goldengage and that most interesting of jamming and cooking plums, the damson (makes great liqueur too), is well worth it. Thanks for a thought provoking blog. I so agree! Living by Grannyanne
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28/11/2011 18:40:00
by tom
Talkback: Picking blackberries
for the inspiration I've made recent trips up Portsdown hill, to the scrub/chalk downland there blackberrying. It was lovely in the sun, listening to the crickets singing. What's more, I even found several wild-growing apple trees so didn't need to buy apples for our by joseph woosey northwood allotments
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28/11/2011 18:37:25
by Spiky Norman
Talkback: Growing salad crops
often mix some with Baby Gem leaves to have with salmon and hollandaise sauce or a sharp vinaigrette   We love salads and I always grow a wee tapestry of green Cos and red oak leaf lettuce in spring and summer.  Looks good and tastes good as well by patricia nicholls
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21/04/2013 13:41:24
by Verdun
Talkback: Growing veg in containers: keep it cropping
in pots, haven't had enough sun though too get things to where they should be now, must say the blueberries are great and still cropping. and my little apple tree which is a bramley type apple is great, still the other things may pick up. I decided to grow by lusia62
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28/11/2011 18:44:03
by thecookinggardener
Help identifying mystery plants
be fruiting or a flowering one My guesses: 1-Hypericum, 2-Aquilegia, 3-Peony, 4-Current of some kind, 5-young crab apple?, 6-Amberboa or Centaurea, 7-Purple Toadflax (weed), 8-?, 9-?, 10-Red Valerian (grows like mad here, so weed!)   Hypericum ,aquilegia by littleredhel
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05/06/2012 22:49:17
by PenylanSue
Drowning fruit tree
the last 2 months. I had thought I could dig a sump hole about 3 foot away with a drainage trench from the planting hole? Has anyone got any other ideas about how I could save this young tree? I can sympathise, I have a falstaff apple tree we got a by frensclan
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11/07/2012 13:27:51
by sotongeoff
Talkback: Brown rot
but I never knew that you had to destroy it. Thanks' so much. This was my first year of growing fruit trees. They are bush type apple pear plum and cherry.I had no fruit at all, would this be normal for the first year? I also had leaf blotches and curled by chantalou
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24/11/2011 15:29:28
by bowserman1
Talkback: Dealing with aphids
. My apples tree and my very large olive tree which is hundreds of years old and planted in the garden have both developed a yellow type fungus which looks a bit like lentils. The apple tree is in blossom but the olive tree lost all it's leaves during by peter dee
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07/06/2012 11:08:51
by discodave
Deer damage
I returned from holiday to find my new apple and plum trees completely stripped of their leaves by deer. Does anyone know if they will die now or will they grow again in the Spring. They are very young - only planted last Autumn. Thanks. A lot by Zaney
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06/08/2012 10:50:07
by Welshonion
bird box
It's about 1.8m up from the ground, north facing, very protected with a bambooo growing over the opening and a mature ceanotus arching over it.  Crab apple in front which birds often hop onto. Many blue tits, sparrows, robins and wrens in our garden by Jess is in the Garden
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03/04/2013 23:27:06
by Woodgreen wonderboy