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cucumber numbers
't let any get too large (especially ones hidden at the back - it's surprisingly easy to miss them sometimes) as it may stop producing flowers if it thinks one of the cucumbers has ripened and produced seeds (what we harvest and eat is actually unripened by diggingdoris
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27/07/2012 14:29:56
by diggingdoris
Aubergines
in my green house- I had given up on them completely having planted them in spring but I suppose the slightly less awful weather two weeks ago must have helped, Will they overwinter inside ready for planting out for a (mammoth harvest next by Linda Pearson
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20/09/2012 07:55:14
by Italophile
Butternut Squash
My butternut squash are a pale yellow/tan colour but the skins are not very hard, I covered them with fleece before our first frost and they are still on the vine but all the leaves are dead and removed. If I harvest the squash and place them in my by Dahlia Lover
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22/10/2012 13:43:33
by Busy-Lizzie
Garden design project needing some help!
to gain insights into any problems that are experienced when using current water saving methods, for example water butts and rainwater harvesting devices. I would be interested to hear about any problems you may have in this ares and any improvements by Harriet Price
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29/10/2012 20:09:12
by flowering rose
STRAWBERRIES
When is the right time to put straw around the strawberry plants. I have a small strawberry patch 40 plants in my allottment and I took up the old straw after I had harvested this years crop. I have now dug up and replanted the plants by Barneyb
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04/11/2012 13:35:13
by Jots Smythe
Weeds
Can anybody recommend the best all-round tool to do a lot of weeding in my vegetable patch now that almost everything is harvested. Unfortunately, I was unable to keep up with the weeding all summer as usual and now I need to throw myself into it by Suecamp
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18/11/2012 21:17:06
by Berghill
Growing best onions possible
be interesting to hear how others grow their onions I only grow sets these days and have been consistently harvesting tennis-ball sized onions for the last few years, since I started using a heat-treated variety called 'Setton'.  I start them in modules (the 24 by Verdun
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24/11/2012 23:17:54
by Verdun
Brussels sprouts
?-a lot of people are harvesting their's Watering?! Wringing out required here For the first time (in over 30 years) I have to admit to total failure of my Brussels.  Usually it is a bit of a tradition to pick sprouts for lunch on Christmas morning by Val8
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12/12/2012 22:25:11
by Shrinking Violet
Onions
.uk/grow-your-own/vegetables/onions/growing-from-sets Hope thats of some help Tracysshed Thank you Paula's I will try that I plant onion sets mid March to mid April, depending on the weather. I find Sturon keeps until June and Red Baron until April the following year. I start harvesting in July, so I by Tracysshed
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20/02/2013 19:38:53
by Tracysshed
Potatoes-Earlies/Lates???
Impulse bought 2 lots of seed potatoes (buy 1 get 1 half-price!) 1 pack of early -Pentland Javelin and 1 pack of lates-Golden Wonder. Just reading the instructions I find the planting time is March and harvest time is June for both types by AJB
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06/03/2013 19:18:51
by AJB