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I give up!
have a wee sit-ootery there - which I haven't used once this year, drattit.  I put in loads of daffodil bulbs, deep down so I could grow other things over the top, and strawberries all round the edge; lilies and asparagus against the south-facing wall by francesmhendry
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10/11/2012 13:56:40
by flowering rose
hi all, got some bugs i'm stuck with.
hello everyone. last year we moved to a house with a nice size garden so we made a veg patch. we quite new to growing veg as before all we had room for things in the odd pot. the garden needed a bit of love cut back loads of out of control bushes by me
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16/12/2011 11:42:13
by Kate Bradbury
Welcome to the fruit & veg forum
have  strawberry and raspberry bushes.With this small area i won six trophys this year and two years ago i won the banksian medal at our local garden show.You do not need a big garden to grow some nice veg. Hello everyone and a happy new gardening year by Daniel Haynes
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01/08/2012 11:53:48
by barrie_hem
Weed suppressing membrane.
understand it, all the membrane does is suppress the weed seeds, so they don't germinate. Surely, then, when the membrane is taken off, they all shout 'Hip hooray! Here's light, let's get growing!'?   Why not let the weeds germinate, grow to a reasonable size by Barney_pl
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08/05/2012 22:41:15
by Barney_pl
Tasty and unusual fruit
strawberry, rhubarb, honey berry, blackberry, red and purple raspberry, red gooseberry, Mirabelle, cherry. None have fruited yet. Am lusting after a mulberry but haven't got the space for another tree. Growing a locquat from seed but have heard that in may by Big gav
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25/01/2013 23:55:08
by Sam Glendinning
odd strawberries
I have grown strawberries for the first time this year. My early strawbs are fruiting brilliantly but the later ones seem to have deformed berries. They have flowered as normal but instead of forming fruits in the middle of the flower they have by terrain487
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19/06/2012 13:25:28
by Alina W
Petunias growing faster than expected
Hi, I planted some petunia seeds at the beginning of feb. Im a bit worried there growing quicker than i expected. I already have a bunch of small seedlings. Will this mean they grow to large for the house and that I have to put them outside before by David 25
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03/03/2013 16:48:52
by David 25
Talkback: Frost
We are getting to the stage where we need to put manure on our allotment again, but are fearful after many horror stories of manure carrying chemical poisons, which have badly affected the ability to grow crops over quite a long period. Does anyone by Gartenzwerg
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28/11/2011 18:37:38
by joseph woosey
Pumpkins
Squash plant and mine is getting eaten too, but there is NOTHING to suggest caterpillars/slugs/snails. As a few of my plants have been being attacked to the point that there is nothing left (Broccoli, strawberries, and a few others too) all the same by heather gent
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12/06/2012 19:06:11
by Shirley5
Vine problems
Hello everyone, I live in Italy and am growing some vines in my garden, one is a rosé grape and the other is called American grape or "uva fragola" (strawberry grape). Both varieties seem to be having a bit of trouble. A lot of the grapes seem by lulustar
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14/09/2012 12:24:25
by Italophile