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Cells or Flats and for what?
, broad beans, carrots, peppers, tomatoes and coriander. Planning to sow calendula, Brassicas and parsley this week. I sow small seeds, mostly flowers in trays and large seeds, eg courgettes, runner beans in pots. I often put a stick such as short piece by blackest
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19/03/2013 17:30:38
by figrat
what jobs done over easter.
planted 60 broad beans into small pots in the GH and finally planted tomato seeds into modules in windowsill propagators in the south-facing front room bay (they're usually up in 4 days as it's so warm in there, after which they'll go into the cooler by barbury gardener
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03/04/2013 11:28:29
by Joyce Goldenlily
to pinch out or not
catch up. Greenhouse plants are different though, I sow at the first chance i.e tomatoes. Yes, not too deep...just slightly. I agree totally with point about growing conditions and light. They need as much natural light as possible nowCosmos are prob 4 by sthlndngrower
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05/04/2013 15:08:18
by Cheerypeabrain
Leaving tulips in the ground
draining soil. Even if you dig them up dont expect them all to come back when replanted. Some people treat them as annuals. I plant a few pots each year with packs from Lidl.  After dead-heading  I feed with tomato fertiliser, or home-made comfrey by Charlie November
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12/05/2013 23:08:44
by Busy-Lizzie
Make do and mend
friend's roof as cloches to place over big pots of germinating carrots etc to warm up the earth I have an old aluminium tomato house that lost it's fron panels/doors and could not get replacements, it is now a shelving unit in the greenhouse for trays a by artjak
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15/05/2013 20:31:57
by artjak
Help me identify shoots please
interested too (especially if you can give her a little patch of her own) - they always want them to grow yesterday!! A couple of tomato plants on a window sill is a good idea as well as she'll see quite quick progress. Some of the seeds were tiny and my 9 yr by Alan Howard
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16/05/2013 20:23:14
by Verdun
Talkback: Aphids
can't see any insect or anything else around the plants. Does anyone know what it might be and how to treat it. Many thanks all. You haven't mention Whitefly above which affects my greenhouse tomatoes and all allotment Brassica. Tried many solutions by alistair
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22/06/2012 19:54:03
by LisaJ
Talkback: Gardening injuries
to be going to a cocktail party with his then girlfriend, but ended up in A & E instead. The girlfriend dumped him, and he met my mother. She tore down the greenhouse and put up a much better one where she now grows tomatoes and all sorts of lovely things by caroline
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28/11/2011 18:41:09
by Neil H
Talkback: Wet weather on the veg plot
but have been so battered by the high winds and torrents of rain that they are bit hit and miss in growth height. I think the tips have actually been torn off on some of them. Potatoes have been slow to grow as have my other veg but although my tomatoes by YewJay
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15/07/2012 16:47:09
by Maud is in the garden
confused..
that growing Tomatoes in Scotland and Cuba will require different techniques due to climate, but can be done. I have found a lot of information on the web that has proved beneficial. Seed suppliers can be another useful source of information. Good luck TJ by lisa berry
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30/03/2012 12:27:22
by missberry