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year at growing veg can I take it that they are late producing..is it ok just to leave them until they have finished producing beans. Thanks   of course,you are lucky you are doing so well.They do as time goes on get tougher and these you can use

Any ideas what to start growing in the greenhouse for a novice cant wait to start !! It depends on what you want to grow-but it is still relatively early Heated or unheated? unheated veg etc Broad beans can be started-for planting out in a few weeks

and snails paid them a great deal of attention - a lot more than Lizzy and me - and the cold, damp weather seemed to stop them in their tracks. If you need some tips on growing beans take a look at the rhs website.They just sat there for weeks, getting

Hi, I wondered if anybody has any experience in growing soya beans, as this is my first attempt and I havent really got a clue what to do with them. At the moment they are about 4 inches tall in small pots in the greenhouse. Do I grow them up canes

Sow seeds of herbs in pots to grow on your kitchen windowsill, such as coriander, parsley and basilLook out for woolly aphid on fruit trees, and spray any with soapy waterThin out seedlings from earlier sowings to their final spacings

Any tips on dealing with the blackfly please? First time growing runner beans myself and have just cropped them but noticed blackfly on some of the beans and I think they have been left a little too long as some are nearly 12" long now. We live

as he was to old/sick to do it on his own, he has broad beans, he topped the flowers at a certain point to stopblack fly, it seems allour plotters do.I'm going for the mix grow,putting corn and sunflowers next to them, should help each of the other

Make a composting trench to enrich soil where beans will grow next springMake compost from spent cropsDig over vacant areasLift and divide congested clumps of rhubarbCut down asparagus fronds and the tops of Jerusalem artichokesBuy in rotted

from rhubarb plants and let them grow uncoveredSow seeds of the following crops outside or under cloches: carrots, beetroot, broad beans, salad onions, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, spinach, leeks, lettuce, rocket, coriander, mixed salad

I bought a packet of Thompson & Morgan climbing beans 'Fasoid' but they are just growing straight up and not climbing up the cane obelisk I made. I've tried tying them to the sticks but they just grow up and don't curl round it like my runners