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Hi there. I'm a complete novice and am trying to grow a lot of different plants from the same start - a windowsill propogator. I have three propogators and they're the type with numerous small cells. I'm a week into growing tomatoes, cucumbers

Hi.. I have had a fresh horse poo tea bag in my water butt for a week now and I am wondering what's ok to put it on and when.. I am growing, cabbage, courgette, runner beans, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumber, aubergine, salad leaves, onions

The cucumber plants in my greenhouse were growing well but started to develop "powdery mildew" which I was told was due to the atmosphere being too moist.I tried to increase ventilation and water carefully.I now have mildew and red spider mite which

I have been given two outdoor cucumbers but i dont no what to do with them. Any advice is welcome. =)  Find a spot that's nice and warm with as much direct sun as possible. Dig in some nice compost, plant not too deeply, and keep well watered

Can anyone tell me why my cucumbers were all very bitter last year. They were grown from seed and kept in my greenhouse - great crop but uneatable. I always grow F1 female cucumbers in my greenhouse and they are never bitter.  I was advised

Train cucumbers and prune back sideshootsPick off flowers on coleus to maintain their colourful leavesWater tomatoes regularly to prevent fruits from splittingTake cuttings from fuchsias, coleus, pelargoniums, marguerites and other tender perennials

it  and I agree with her. Slugs & snails have eaten all my baby cucumbers & all the growing points of the plants. They're just slime covered bare stems.  It's a really bad year for us, they're loving all the rain.  Well ....at least it was a whole

, if something I grow has a bad year I just think i'll try again next year. I lost my cucumber plant last year early as well as my corgette but my tomatoes, lettuce, spring onions and potato's were great all free from chemical use. Interesting, Have just been

Just wondering if anyone can help out at all. I went outside today to discover my cucumber plant looking rather sorry for itself! The leaves are really drooping/ wilting it looks as if it is in dry soil but the compost is really moist. I'm growing

new to growing veg have also sowed some courgette sweet peppers tomatoes broccoli cauliflower and leeks I grew these last year on a spare piece of my allotment and they produced a lot of smallish cucumbers, very tasty, but I found that if ;left to grow