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to this and growing in pots but i have potaoes(just showing), 2 types of onions(some at 4 "), garlic, carrots (about 1 inch shoots), peppers( indoors), tomatoes ( indoors) and my chillies which are flowering lots which were planted last sept. im hoping last weeks

! not enough to grow slugs, white fly, blight etc Hey Artjak - Santa brought me a bright pink wheelbarrow Bjay Love the idea of bright pink barrow Tinkling but haven't space to wheel it now.  Yes slugs and snails have had a feast this year i think it's time

'!Besides, I do know a bit about growing garlic. Although the bulbs do need a period of really cold weather to get them started, that period can be as short as a week at about zero to four °C. This seems highly possible during the remainder of February

in for awhile and see if they'll grow more. Is there anything I can do to improve their chances? Will caning them up help at all? We don't seem to have any garlic experts here at the moment, I didn't get any replies when I asked the same question a few days

. Greenfly don't lay eggs. I think the white bits you are finding are the skins shed by the aphids as they grow Pam x I've wondered for years what those white things were......thanks Pam  The garlic mix seems to have got rid of the greenfly

Hi there, I have something which has taken over one of my garden beds. It looks like grass, however, it appears to grow a lot quicker. When I dig it up there are countless numbers of clumps of bulbs. I tried clearing the area last year, however

hand would one day grow into a whole bulb of garlic they were dumbstruck! And we're all very excited about harvesting lots of potatoes from the single seed potato we planted.For so many kids you can see a whole new story start to unravel, and the great

We have had to dig up all our garlic today at our allotment due to rust on the leaves. They were a mixed bunch really of various sizes. Disappointing but, judging from other people's experiences it looks like it's the climate change doing

planting times, autumn and early Spring, it depends on the variety of garlic you plant as some are classified as soft neck and some as hard neck. They do not recommend starting garlic off under cover, just straight in the ground where they are going to grow

Feed tomatoes in growing bags and pots with a liquid high-potash fertiliser Plant nerines, lachenalia and veltheimia bulbs in potsTake leaf cuttings from begonias, Cape primroses and African violetsSow winter lettuces in potsPot up clumps of chives