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bread and chutney one of the great culinary combinations?One of my favourite pickles of all is Delia Smith's spiced pickled runner beans recipe. It's made using runner beans, onions and turmeric.If you want to get cracking and grow your own chutney, now

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

Hi all i'm a newbie on onions, could anyone help, i'm thinking of growing onion's,is it better to grow them from seed's or set's, thank you.  You are a bit late now for seed sown onions so I would suggest the setts route Thanx tee gee for the info

on that is to blame. What we'd like to know is what is safe to grow on the same area once it's been dug over? Also, our onions are falling over. Can anyone advise on this? There is no sign of onion rot or suchlike....we dug one up and had it for our dinner (not on it

Is there any point in leaving my maincrop onions in as they have started to flower? I have picked off the flowers but wonder if they will get any bigger. Some are no larger than when they went in! I could use the space for something else

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

Sow peas in lengths of guttering under cover, so you can plant out seedlings in an instant rowPlant out onion sets in rows, spacing them about 10-15cm apartCarefully dig away grass or plants growing close to the stems of fruit trees to reduce

Watched a couple of Monty's videos re growing spuds and shallots in containers....he had a bin for the spuds but just a metal bucket for the shallots.  Has anyone tried the shallots like this? Was thinking of trying it with shallots and red onions

's the only solution Did you grow these from seed or sets and when did you start them off? They were sets in the autumn, did really well up until now! There is no point in saving the seed. Use the onions that have bolted in the kitchen, they will not store