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Talkback: How to practise crop rotation
this is my first summer growing veg and i have one veggie-bed at the moment with sprouts in. planning to have 3 more beds next year so this has explained crop rotation very well Well explained video!I will start a new garden this year and wonder by knittynana
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16/02/2012 16:15:58
by Emma Crawforth
planting out runner beans
. I guess being a good gardener is a lot about experience. yes sotongeoff the cucumber plants will go into my small greenhouse. I will put them in a grow bag on the bottom shelf..Thank you for the advice on the runner beans , I have been watching them by artychris
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18/05/2012 00:35:36
by Zoomer44
Where are my vegetables?
anything, but beans are very greedy. Get yourself a copy of growing veg month by month by John Harrison.  It's only a fiver or so from amazon, and it's become my veg bible.  Has lots of great ideas, and will keep you going when disheartened.  You will learn by Diane Horsley
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10/05/2013 18:02:15
by Mummy Muddy Paws
Late seed sowing
Recently checked the dates in the past when I sowed carrots, Beetroot, spring onions, etc etc. A few years I did that in mid Feb but mostly in first week in March. I used cloches and fleece and had runner beans growing under home made poly tunnels by Verdun
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14/04/2013 08:27:13
by m0rce
Talkback: Rust fungus on grass
affected by this sooty deposit. They were near a honeysuckle plant. We grew some in pots a distance away and they are OK. Any advice welcome. The sooty deposit on the beans sounds like sooty mould, which grows on honey dew, (sticky deposit secreted by Josephine from Wilts
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28/11/2011 18:39:39
by mandy
Talkback: Growing veg in shade
am barmy and maybe i am. I will also grow onions and shallots potatoes, runner beans, courgette and braod beans plus the odd little bit of salad too. If I did grow crop's in the garden it would be left to rot as you can alway's buy by Pink Heather
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06/06/2012 22:11:04
by gummer4england
HESTIA dwarf r-beans
heavy with the beansI think they will fall over.. Mine are about 18" high at the moment.  I had to stake out my broad beans last year..  Sadly I dont have space for them as well this year.  I am a novice so everything is hopefully "touch and grow", I by staffsmags
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03/06/2012 19:44:48
by staffsmags
Container gardening with children
! Robyn If the childen are young they will have no patience in my experience and will want things that grow quickly -tomatoes outside are going to be long time growing before ripening-could be as late as the end of August,beans might be fine but again you by pinkboat
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03/05/2012 18:58:16
by lilylouise
Talkback: Grow your own chutney
, thoughts of summer come flooding back. Thanks for the recipe Lila, I'm not growing runner beans this year, but have 12 dwarf french bean plants, I presume it would work just as well with french beans? For the past two years I've made beetroot chutney,from a by juliamalone@sky.com
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28/11/2011 18:40:50
by jean
Broad Beans
I have planted out my broard beans as they are about 200mm high and nice and strong, but when i planted them out 60% are lying on the ground have i done something wrong or will they come round? Did you acclimatise them first? Maybe they are a bit by Dicky Dirt
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13/03/2012 08:35:30
by Dicky Dirt