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Is there anything that can go in now for an autumn crop ?

onions, garlic and some brassicas over winter. (I don't know which exact varieties but hopefuly someone on here will point us both in the right direction). Anything quick growing-salad crops perhaps-radish ,lettuce etc beetroot would work, carrots might by blueberry77

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05/08/2012 07:46:31

by florafanatic

Green Manure

peas from the supermarket, cheap and handy. French beans are another suggestion. you can still grow salad crops such as lettuce.carrots,spring onions, peas,beans,turnips (milky ones) I would also put some potatoes in for a christmas harvest. what have by bobloes

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26/07/2012 18:56:35

by bobloes

manured raised bed

p.s i only grow veg turnips cabbage/sprouts/broc/caulie/punkings/leeks Brassicas do not like newly manured ground. Peas/ beans etc do. Don't plant carrots or parsnips there. They will all split into many fingers. Only plant them in beds that have by shaunandnicola

21/04/2013 21:31:47

by Ziminuk

Stony and hard ground

I would love to grow a few vegetables and fruit but the ground is hard, stony and full of grass, weeds and moss. Apparently it probably has never seen a spade in it's live and neighbour reckons I'll end up with a sore back if I try and dig it over by Chickenmama

02/05/2013 23:35:32

by Busy-Lizzie

Talkback: Red cabbages

How can you tell when red cabbage is ready to harvest and do you know any recipes for pickled red cabbage? Toe Can you grow them at this time of year. How long should I keep the netting on my runner and broad beans and other seedlings? My red by greeny

28/11/2011 18:31:12

by Greenman

I have just decided to try gardening, i have dug up some lawn roughly 12ft by 15ft. I have runner beans,onions,carrots potatoes and strawberrys. My strawberrys seem to be doing well,iput them in a grow bag last year,mead holes in the bottom so by Lu

17/06/2012 20:22:00

by Lu

Talkback: Growing salad crops

.....already growing in trays.Love all summer crops...carrots raw, beans raw rhubarb raw.The veg garden can look good too, as obelixx said, with red Beetroot alongside fresh green lettuce and rows of feathery carrot tops.All without pesticides, slug pellets ....just by patricia nicholls

21/04/2013 13:41:24

by Verdun

Talkback: Starting a veg patch

appreciate people who do manage to grow good crops and the craft of gardening. We all make mistakes when we first start gardening. Mine was not putting any slug pellets around some Asters. My dad was in hospital at the time and asked me to put them in, which by marygold

28/11/2011 18:44:02

by CR

New BBC Gardening Show looking for Kitchen Gardeners

few further details have emerged this morning.... "This will be a gardening version of the Great British Bake Off. Filming will take place from April to September. Eight allotments will be built for couples to grow seasonal crops such as carrots by Lyon Greene

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20/02/2013 11:14:20

by Jean Genie

Talkback: Grow Yourself Healthy: May jobs

this into the existing soil in the beds, and perhaps mix in some more bulky organic compost (or home-made compost) at the same time. As always, don't add fresh compost to areas where you intend to grow root crops, like carrots, as they can become forked and distorted. i by higgy50

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28/11/2011 18:43:37

by Water Coolers East M

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