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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
planting potatoes
and tomatoes are the same family and can both get blight so don't plant tomatoes where potatoes have just grown. But this wasn't your question! debra kazalski growing potatoes in straw or sand is good way to get poor production debra kazalski wrote (see) has by teabag 2
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10/02/2013 17:28:35
by clogherhead
Growing veg with little space
Can I realistically grow much in containers? I don't have much luck with tomatoes so thought I would stick to salad leaves etc, but also love carrots, cucumber, onions, sweet peppers, courgettes and beetroot in particular. I've bought varieties by laarobbins
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11/04/2013 00:22:59
by * Red Dahlia *
Talkback: Potato scab
feel it is important to help native ladybirds, but a picture of what the lavae look like would be helpful for lots of people. Good idea about photo of native ladybirds' larvae - please do it. Grown Nadine for first time, and in a container. Blight by Simmo
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28/11/2011 18:39:12
by AUBenjamin
Curly leaves on tomato plants...
leaves now growing are very green and healthy (so far!).  I was worried about some form of blight, but this seems like logical precautions to make a happy plant!  Many thanks for the advice to all so far! Hi All, I too am seeing the leaves on my tomato by Garden Maniac
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10/05/2012 06:48:04
by Italophile
Talkback: Seed catalogues
plant outside did a little better, only about 60% of the fruit cracked but like all the other tomatoes outside it quicklt succombed to blight in this wet summer. by Barnwell Brian
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28/11/2011 18:39:51
by Adam Pasco
Talkback: Allotment successes
my nadines came up small this year but my king edwards and desire have triumphed sack and sacks and my soils lovely my runner beans are doing good had 2 sunday dinners so far and thats a family off 16 round 4 dinner sorry tomatoes all got blight by S lambert
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28/11/2011 18:39:25
by BARB
Talkback: 'Grow Your Own' Week: Getting started
of mistakes, but I've had a lot of success as well. The first year I lost all my tomatoes to the dreaded blight, my dwarf french beans were covered in aphids, the brassicas were decimated by caterpillars and I stupidly sowed carrot's in modules by Jan
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28/11/2011 18:40:35
by cutie
Tomato leaf problems - help
My greenhouse tomatoes, which were doing well, are now suffering. This started off in the form of curling leaves, which then developed mottled brown patches and are now turning yellow. Some of the yellow leaves are becoming floppy and mould like by Gard
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31/07/2012 17:40:43
by Insomnia1973
Talkback: Harvesting potatoes
my potato plant has produced a small bunch of fruit bodies. they are very similar in look to a small green tomato. when cut open it has small seed and smells like a tomato. when I lifted the plant there were tuber attatched. any ideas ? I by Charles Johnston
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28/11/2011 18:37:12
by mandy