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guess it's Friday again Yes TT, wums are out Hiya brum Don't do a lot in annuals ...perennials more important now but cosmos, heliotrope, sweet peas.Got lettuce, peas and shallots under way and will get in carrots, spring onions, Beetroot etc ASAPFor

my Garlic in October. It is doing really well and I hope that it continues. Last years crop along with the onions and shallots were victims of some kind of airborne disease. This killed the leaves so all had to be lifted before they reached maturity

but this is the first time i have tried to grow them.can anyone help? When do I lift my onions and shallots. do I wait for the to dry off? Trying to find tulip blue beauty (triumph?). bought it last year via simple pleasures. thanks. Any idea where I can buy tulipa

. As you say, they're never cheap to buy, and it's lovely to have them really fresh. Norli are a good variety. Personally I think onions are a bit of a waste of space as they're generally cheap to buy and the ones you grow taste much the same as the ones

,  I live in south east near the coast so mild but I always plant garlic (onions/shallots also) direct in the ground and garlic especially does really well.  They say that garlic needs a period of cold for the bulb to 'clove'.  I think that is so

and carrots need to be apart and I grow shallots or onions as a shield for parsley "carrot" fly.   Fill ice cube trays with water, push a borage flower into each cube, put in ice box. Simples! Ecky thump.  We Cornish simpletons would never have thought

Doesn't the smell just make you want to get cooking when you harvest garlic, Pippa? Same with onions and shallots. I have a slatted table so will do the same with mine. Thanks for the tip - I hadn't thought of that. No sign of rust here either

crop) and herbs and salad from seed, garlic in a bed.......have shallots and red onions waiting to go and was thinking of starting leek seeds on the windowsill this week......then I want to do carrots, parsnips, tomatoes, chillies and corn when its a

and onions, the feel of new potatoes as you lift them from the warm soil, all pleasures as great as the sight of a well-tended mixed border. The latter will be good for your children's soul but growing veg. will be great for their health. I am looking

't know, I assumes as they were selling it it could be planted. Now they've done well int he post so far and they have shoots on of between 3 and 4 inches and growing rapidly! Shoul dI move them on now into the ground? And if so where should I put them? I