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on as they grow, in these appalling conditions of high winds, torrential rain, clarty soil, and voracious meeces, slugs and snails. I've been sowing them inside and planting them out when they get big enough but all of them have either been eaten by slugs

variegated one the name of which escapes me for mo. Tempted by nice white variety I see advertised too.I grow in pots too with copper tape under the rimGreat foil for red and blue grasses, ophiopogon and Heucheras. Hiya Verdun   Yes i have patriot

and eaten the leaves 3ft up. If I was French I would be rubbing my hands in glee and saving pounds on meat bills instead I am spending a fortune on pellets! My girlfriend and I have been growing our own vegetables for the first time this year. We were so

they have started to grow, holly seems to be spread greatly by birds, hellebores often are stronger than ones I deliberately plant, and salads benefit greatly from lamb's lettuce which seems impossible to control. I found what could be a rosemary beetle

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

. Potatoes are good, as are broad beans, runner beans, onions and lettuce, but the only carrots we have managed to grow are in a pot, nearly ready to harvest, we haven't any beetroot, sown it 3 times and got nowhere. Soft fruit has cropped well, blackcurrants

of these have bolted, and Garlic left to look forward to, I've found the same with those grown in bags, but the ones I grew in the ground - same variety -  I've had a bumper crop I'm in Lancashire and usually only grow spuds in bags although this year grew a

This isn't about Cosmos, but reminded me of the first plants I tried to grow from seed, aged about 5 or 6 I guess. Lavatera (great success), cornflowers (brilliant success) and aquilegia (total fail), and I can still remember the disappointment

peeking up.  To see sweet peas in flower and new potatoes being lifted, doesn't encourage me to keep viewing.  Get real!   This is really an old chestnut with the greatest respect-it is a matter of making adjustment to your own growing conditions-what do

of the mud on the soles of my boots.Catherine MooreFalkirk Don't get me started on the weather, me taters are rotting under 2" of water, onions just started to grow and stair rod rain just bounced em out of the ground, me strimmer packed in so while it went