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How can you tell when red cabbage is ready to harvest and do you know any recipes for pickled red cabbage? Toe Can you grow them at this time of year. How long should I keep the netting on my runner and broad beans and other seedlings? My red

to improve, so then will the crop.Baby courgettes fail to develop. Instead of growing into a long or round shape, they quickly rot on the plant.Pollinate the early batch of flowers by hand, rather than relying on insects. Pick an open male flower (which doesn

I have a new, bigger greenhouse. I have seedlings growing in a heated (min 14c) and very warm when sunny, garden room. When will it be safe to put them out in the unheated, but very sunny greenhouse (most of them will stay in the greenhouse

to their baseFlowersGrow early-maturing potatoes in a bag of compostFork compost into beds to prepare soil for plantingChit potatoes Fruit & vegSow cucumbers, tomatoes, aubergines and peppersWater compost with a suitable pesticideSow summer bedding plants

pelargoniumsTrain the main stem of cucumber plants up a wire Water plants in pots and grow bagsGreenhouse50 minutes Find out how to keep your shrubs beautiful

growing from the framework of espalierPick fresh herbs for dryingPick gooseberries, currants, strawberries and other fruitsFruit & vegTrain cucumbers and prune back sideshootsPick off flowers on coleus to maintain their colourful leavesPinch out tomato

will seeds get overheated in a heated propagator within a greenhouse? I am having mixed results Would have thought so Del but I suppose it depends what you're growing. Are you making sure they get ventilation too? I've got heated propagators in my

sunlight - probably no more than a couple of hours a day.  So my question is what should I use it for?  I've tried tomatoes and they just don't really work. I always get lots of green tomatoes so great for chutney but not much else!  Cucumbers seem to work

Sorting out seed today  some packets unopened some opened  that I bought last year and never used . They say past there used by date on some and  some have no dates at all .Should I throw them or still use them .Some tomatoe seeds. courgettes,cucumbers

had wilting cucumbers even tho' we watered them regularly and found that the roots were infested with ants.  Applied ant powder and the plants no longer wilt so maybe ants are the problem? Second year running growing them form seed and t hey are still