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Where are my vegetables?
Is it just me are is everyone experiencing no show with stuff they've planted?  I dug up half of my garden (because it wasn't getting used for relaxing or entertaining etc) and decided to have a vegetable plot instead ( to try to cut the cost by Diane Horsley
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10/05/2013 18:02:15
by Mummy Muddy Paws
Talkback: Watering vegetables
on my allotment. I have started to remove the plants. Can anyone tell me the best thing to do? Should I spray or is that pointless. Some advice would be appreciated please!! Hi There are many differences of opinions on various vegetable growing by John.J.R.P.
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28/11/2011 18:38:56
by MattR
Digging a vegetable Plot
I moved to a new house and wanted a vegetable plot.  I did not read about digging it properly and now have a plot with turned over sods of grass, some reasonable soil and a lot of clay.  It looks a bit of a mess. I have turned the grass upside down by Jayn
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20/05/2013 15:57:42
by Mummy Muddy Paws
Talkback: Sharing gardens and vegetable plots
It is you there isn't it? All this talk of vegetables is slightly worrying! i grew my own for the first time last year and really enjoyed it, cant wait to start again.starting onion and carrot seeds in the greenhouse this week! it does get very by Lesley
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28/11/2011 18:40:08
by Anonymous
Talkback: Sowing vegetable seeds outdoors
, but I'm going to have a go at growing my own veg. My question is I want to give the soil a boost what should I dig with it, to give it & the veg I want to grow a kick start? Hi Jean, you can improve your soil for growing vegetables by adding compost by Gemma
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25/04/2012 14:27:07
by Ronniekav
Is my soil safe to grow vegetables on?
Hello, I am new to gardening.  Our garden used to have a septic tank and therefore a leaching bed.  It was removed at least 5 years ago.  I would like to have a vegetable plot on the old site of the leaching bed.  Would the soil be safe by now by frenchgardener
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10/03/2012 20:51:45
by frenchgardener
Neighbor waterproofing fence and my vegetables!
space for vegetables and the area is right near his fence. I wait until after he treats his fence to grow anything every year, but I am sure the chemicals are still there. Should I be concerned? Maria,ask him what he uses. It prob is quite harmless by Maria Mercer
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11/04/2013 14:28:37
by Gold1locks
Using Railway Sleepers on tiered raised vegetable beds
We are in the process of converting a rather 'empty' slope in our garden which is approx 8m wide and 4m deep into 2 raised vegetable beds.  We have bought some old Railway Sleepers to hold back the soil which will eventually be placed in there (we by Steph5
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14/04/2012 09:11:20
by Steph5
Talkback: How to build a raised vegetable bed
? Should I have different layers of materials ie Fertilizer, sand whatever as well as good compost. I intend to build a raised vegetable bed and notice that many people have placed a black membrane at the base and coming up the sides. Is this a weed by pattison
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13/05/2012 13:03:42
by Joe_the_Gardener
Will security lightning / street lighting upset my vegetable plot?
Hi, Ive just moved into a flat (renting) that has access to a small garden and have spent the bank holiday preparing a small vegetable plot. Ive now planted the 'usual' suspects.. potatoes, chard, corgettes, spinach, runner beans, cucumbers  etc by veggie patch
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27/05/2013 22:06:42
by nutcutlet