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Talkback: Growing tomatoes: best tomatoes for flavour
to be Ferline for me again. I get blight badly here and the Ferline were hardly touched last year. Good tasting tomatoes & lots of them. JohnSouthWest – this problem-solving project on tomato leaf mould might help youGreenfingers – Gardener’s Delight is a good by Daniel Bolnei
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28/11/2011 18:43:13
by Mike Eagle
Talkback: What to do with a rotting tree
GREENMAN'S BLIGHT ON HIS TOMATOES WAS CONTROLLED. WILL GIVE IT A TRY NEXT YEAR. WHAT IS THERE TO LOSE? how toxic is an oleander plant ?? i have a 2 yr old grandson Oleander is one of the most toxic plants known. According to Wikipedia, a single leaf by greenman
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28/11/2011 18:39:33
by Batty
yellow spots on tomato leaves
I'm getting conflicting diagnoses. Is it the start of blight? Mosaic virus ? Bacterial infection ? Or a deficiency in something ...magnesium ? This was a recent discussion on this subject-my feeling is you will find the answer there http://www by joanna macdonald
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15/07/2012 07:19:51
by Dovefromabove
Talkback: Couch grass
. Tried taking the children (now four and eight) up there in the summer (such as it was),they just argued and demanded the toilet, iccreams, picnics etc. or moaned that their Nintendo DS had run down. Result, every last tomato got blight, runner beans ran by s debattista
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28/11/2011 18:37:23
by Tasia
Talkback: Sowing seeds for home-made ratatouille
for ratatouille for several years - except that I bought the olive oil and salt and pepper. The last couple of summers have really been a challenge. The tomatoes have got blight and the peppers and aubergines didn't ripen - even in containers on the terrace by DABBLER
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28/11/2011 18:40:23
by Anonymous
Talkback: Growing cucumbers
on gardening, as I write this it is pouring down again. Tomatoes I had in hanging baskets have got blight because of this weather, I wish now I had taken them into the greenhouse. The greenhouse tomatoes are doing really well though. It does seem so unfair by mjtclayton
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16/07/2012 21:07:42
by Zoomer44
Talkback: Tomatoes, aubergines and peppers
of warning: as you know allotments are a magnet for every conceivable pest and disease so beware of tomato blight. After 3 years of blight wiping out all my tomatoes, both outside and in a polytunnel, just as they were ripening, despite regular spraying, I by southwickman
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11/05/2012 14:09:28
by Excitable Boy
Wind damage to your plants..
did find some discoloured leaves on my outdoor tomatoes - could this be the cold winds? or could it be the beginnings of blight? I'd have thought it was too cold for blight yet. And yes, I wondered what planet Monty was on last night. He referred back by Don my Ton
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09/06/2012 22:14:57
by Shrinking Violet
potatoes for the winter
.but if its your first attempt wait  awhile till  spring but you need a potato expert.I did some in a bag this year and that too was a poor result . I've been googling potatoes a lot recently (checking on blight symptoms), and came across a couple of articles by flowergirl4
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02/09/2012 17:40:35
by flowergirl4
last years compost
I grow potatoes and tomatoes and cucumbers in pots and grobags abd potato bags and hanging baskets every year .At the end of the season I am left with half full bags pots etc of compost which I usually put on the garden.I am struggling to find more by bartonr
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24/01/2013 19:59:07
by Palaisglide