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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
Is it ever going to STOP!!!!
  then start again then stop again....The outdoor tomatoes are getting waterlogged...Even in the greenhouse things are very different this year..The sweet peppers are only half as big as they should be....the cucumber hasnt started to flower yet although by susan howard2
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02/07/2012 19:51:49
by Gaffelbiter
Completely new to veg growing
all the veg space, it was 6' tall and 6'wide at least. So it had to go. But one plant produces a lot. Also asparagus would be nice. Tomatoes are fun to grow if the summer is half way good. Go for runner beans you get loads for your money and much by jackie frost
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02/01/2013 21:26:07
by hollie hock
Talkback: How to earth up potaotes
it looks fairly straightforward and hope mine are as successful as the Gardeners World team!! Hi im gonna have a go at the potatoes too (first time) and like othergarders here I too am trying veg for first time starting easy with tomatoes lettuce by 3154
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22/05/2012 18:37:51
by Excitable Boy
Talkback: How to insulate a greenhouse
the front on a warm day. I keep the battons in place all year as I use them to attach strings to grow tomatoes. Using "large bubble" for the first time.The Alliclip Extensions do not twist through the expected 90 degrees and fall out quite easily when by bc103963
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31/03/2012 22:47:47
by lolly2