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Use twigs pushed into the ground to support tall-growing peas, or use short canes and stringFeed strawberries with a high potash feed, such as tomato fertiliserSow flowering companions in your veg plot, such as tagetes and poached egg plants

blighters! Keep a layer of fine horticultural fleece over them, my friend has had wonderful carrots since she started doing this. It is said that growing onions nearby helps, as the onion fly and the carrot fly get confused about the smells. Don't thin out

stems of sedumsClear borders and rake up leaves FlowersKeep harvesting root vegetables as they matureOrder seed potatoes, onion sets and shallotsStretch netting over brassicasFruit & vegSow onion seed under cover, and keep warmCheck overwintering plants

and healthy, I have prepared the ground well 3 months ago with well rotted horse manure. We have erected white shade cloth over the beds. The air temp does get up into the late 30s, will they grow? Thanks for all your good tips. Hi I planted my onions in sept

plants get wet everytime it rains and my greenhouse plants whenever I water them. hiIt is the first time Ive every tryed to grow anything in my garden I bought myself a greenhouse, everything is going great tomatoe onions,beetroot,and losts off other veg

Why do my spring onions take forever to grow? I am still waiting for those planted as seeds last year to get to a size big enough to eat-  the seed packet said they'd only take 6 weeks- not more than 12 months! I have tried them in pots

Depends what you want to grow- but it has to be an economical proposition all my seeds onions tomatoes chillie etc and then cuttings Honestly- it doesn't warrant the cost for the ordinary gardener-it isn't just light you need but heat as well-the idea

Off to plant my onions and shallots now I know how to . Just wondering if it would still be okay to plant out shallots this week with the cold weather coming I don't have heirloom shallots, altho I found the idea of leaving one plant to seed a good

patch of ground. Brassicas i.e cauli,cabbage,sprouts,broccoli,swede. I'd be tempted to have a good dig around or you could end with more potatoes growing. A good acronym for remember crop succession is 'People Like Bunches Of Roses', Potatoes-Legumes-Brassicas-Onions

growing before they have to combat the army of slugs and other pests in my garden. I too love growing shallots. The red banana- shaped shallots look beautiful enough to grow in a flowerbed and grow as big as onions do for me. i have none left as I use