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New Years Day flower count

On 05/01/2013 in forum

out then, they're wide open. Ehh?? flower count......   Big fat ZERO Thats good nutcutlet more for your flower count That is a shame Bagz maybe its a bit cold where you live, it is mild here not had much frost A lot depends on what you grow. I


Talkback: Snail attack

On 28/11/2011 in forum

of the beastly things. Just when I think I am getting somewhere near seeing the back of them and only picking up 3 or 4, the next morning I find 10 or more. What is the answer? They have eaten my courgette and Market More cucumber, climbed the bean poles


When do you buy your seeds?

On 13/06/2012 in forum

seeds starting at 29p a packet and I have always had good results from them. Things like lettuce, beetroot, spring onions, radish, carrot, beans - all types - always grow from seed - dead easy, dead cheap Courgettes, squash, pumkins, cucumbers - nearly


What did you do in your garden today?

On 04/05/2013 in forum

tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes and moving some plants outside to start hardening them off. Also sown some spring onons and watered everything and then it rained!  I potted on some little geranium plugs  last  months magazine. Then it's just weeding, while


Talkback: Autumn heatwave

On 28/11/2011 in forum

would be envious of the wonderful harvest in the Mediterranean Vegetable garden. Even the sweet and hot peppers have performed this year and squashes of every shape and colour, ridge cucumbers, and beans galore in many varities. Sweet corn ripening


Not all bad news in the garden

On 17/07/2012 in forum

! dmball my strawberries were exactly the same but all my other veg is doing well I even have cucumbers growing this year and I thought they needed a lot of sun and as for my flowers they all seam to love the weather at the moment as they are all in pots I


holiday watering in greenhouse

On 04/07/2012 in forum

on automatic 4 times a day for 10 minutes each time.  Thats to do our gro-bags and all our cucumber plants in pots.  I'm using an Autopot system for the first time this year. I have 6 pots at the mo. I can't quite believe the plants are getting enough water


Talkback: Planting out tomatoes

On 01/06/2012 in forum

toms & peppers (in a propagator) relatively late, i.e. mid-April, then housing them in the greenhouse till the end of May (I grow lots for a village plant sale). BUT this year, they've not grown strongly and are so TINY, I may only be able to charge 25p


Why did you all start gardening?

On 01/01/2013 in forum

helped my dad with the weeding and hoeing. Then when l was five l was given my own small patch next to the greenhouse where l would grow radishes,lettuce,a few peas l would always eat raw,candytuff flowers l would grow for the faeries to pick! My jobs


Talkback: Carrot crisis

On 08/06/2012 in forum

only had 1 melon) and bad crop of cucumbers. I noticed that at the end of the season all my veg wanted to start growing and the courgettes etc. put on loads of female flowers just to be struck down by the frost. I dont know when my plot was last worked


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