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how can i increase the ammount of wallflowers in my garden how do you propegate Hello, I am a wallflower fan . They were the first plants that I grew from seed last year and those plants  are flowering now. The best way I would suggest is to grow

to finish picking before the beans block the sun? I thought greyhound cabbage or sweet corn to grow up through. or pumpkin? Lettuce and radishes will crop quickly and not mind shade. Beetroot and chad are fairly quick growing. You might get golf ball

, I have winter cabbages cauliflowers and kale still growing strongly, but still covered in white fly.  can anyone suggest a green method to get rid of them.  thanks Bunny Guinness back last October on Gardeners' Question Time recommended Neem Oil

Keep lawn edges trimmed by cutting with a half-moon edging toolLook out for cabbage white butterfly eggs and rub them off with your fingersRemove blanket weed from pondsFeed hanging baskets and patio pots every weekPrune fast-growing hedges like

, though not because of pests, just because we got so sick of eating cabbages of all sorts last winter. It was the same story with turnips the year before... note to self, must stop growing things in such vast quantities. But I could eat any amount of broad

Shorten sideshoots growing from the framework of espalier, fan and cordon-trained fruit trees back to about five leaves from their basePick fresh herbs for dryingPick gooseberries, currants, strawberries and other fruits as they ripenSupport heavily

I am surprised to read that you only saw your first cabbage white this month, as I have had several since early May. I have still had the odd one or two despite the torrential rain in the past few weeks. Keep up the good work your articles

growing and we have learnt a few things For example thin out carrots or you end up with something out of a biology lesson. we lost all our cabbages red and white to a catapillar and his 3 million relatives and I was so looking forward to the red

on the plot, it's time for the pre-Christmas dinner harvest - only I've cocked up a bit this year! After growing the most gorgeous little button sprouts last year, it dawned on me in September that I hadn't grown any at all this season. I've brassicas aplenty

hi can anyone tell me why cabbages (red and white) and tomatoes planed in pots using multi-purpose compost would turn the leaves white and what i could do to rescue them?  i thought it may be a nutrient related problem but in brand new compost i