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My toms and basil havebeen in the cold GH for a couple of weeks now. I'm not expecting a frost in the next few days but how low a temperature can they deal with without being set back? They're still small enough to be brought into the kitchen. Maybe

Has anyone else been having trouble with herbs this year?  I grow mine in containers - mint, oregano, feverfew etc - and almost all of them have had diseased leaves, poor growth and when the sun finally did arrive last week, scorched leaves.  Even

whenever you want them.May - JulyJuly - August30 minutes Herbs, e.g. basil, coriander, chives, rosemary, parsleyWindow boxDrillBubble wrapPolystyrene chipsCompostGrit Slate chippingsDrill holes in the bottom of the container and line the sides with bubble

 African Blue Basil  New Guinea Impatiens - various colours      Coleus  Plenty more to do tomorrow Pam LLx Wow Pam, do you have a production line? You put me to shame, started out with good intentions to do cuttings today and got sidetracked. I think I

grow basil as a companion plant to tomatoes.  Stick a plant in with the tomato, and as basil is more sensitive to conditions than tomatoes, if it looks sickly, it will do it before it shows on your tomatoes.  Can't remember where I read this, but worth

pretty garden and home-grown veg.Starting indoors, there's a propagator, containing seedlings of basil and garlic chives, which are in dire need of transplanting. I also need to pot on the sunflowers I'm growing as part of the Gardeners' World sunflower

Just been reading Which? magazine's reviews of the performance of different composts for growing seeds and young plants. Top is Arthur Bower's seed and cutting compost following by 3 different Verve(B&Q) composts -  grow bag then sowing and cutting

with - thank you for sharing your spectacular garden with us. Hope my blue basil grows as well as yours - its doing really well up to now. Very nice formal garden, such pretty colour combinations. Do you live by a very busy main road?  Beautiful garden Pam, I

and rush home to make tomato and mozzerella salads (it was then that I first had the urge to grow basil).The next year I asked my girlfriend what we should try growing on the balcony. "Sweetcorn", she said. So I did. I grew six sweetcorn plants on the sixth

it Verd. I expect it also depends how much you grow and what your own conditions are. Tomatoes are better inside here because of our weather but I've not really had issues with pests....so far  I have grown summer savory this year - supposed to deter black