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Yes Jennifer I've had exactly the same happen to my Bishop of Llandaff. Good idea of yours for the cloche, I'll definitely try it. Can anyone tell me how long an adult vine weevil lives? Yes all this is fine for apples and plums but - do you know

Having spent about 5 hours over the last 2 days up a ladder picking plums next to a wasp's nest I can agree with their overabundance this year. Still, for someone petrified of wasps and scared of heights, being up a ladder surrounded by wasps

No 2) for plum jam with a twist of orange, cinnamon and a bit of stem ginger ... absolutely gorgeous. Planning to make these jars gifts for family and friends. I find it so satisfying being able to grow and eat your own. I was lucky enough to be given

Dear gardener, the planting of a dragon fruit is similar to planting an apple tree, a plum tree or a shrub.We dug 600 holes (1hectare) 40 cm deep (the roots-length 10-15 cm).We filled the ground with ceramic fragments and Bokashi (look at compost

I've a very old plum tree in my garden which always fruits well. It has an old 'scar' about a foot above the ground where I believe a huge bough was removed from many years ago. This has cracked and often has seed grow in it from the friendly birds

of the day (lots of building around me!). So far last year my biggest triumph was cherry tomatoes and the really tiny 100's & 1000's both grown in pots.  Picked the last of them in October! Plum tomatoes were a failure (2- sad) but I think they need a baking

be better. Don't grow a tip bearing apple as these aren't suited to being grown this way. I would also suggest pears grown as cordons rather than plum or cherry which are probably too vigorous and not ideal for cordons (free standing, ie standard, or fans

. Apricot trees (Prunus ameniaca) grow particularly well there because of the south-western aspect and because, before the invention of the gutter, they got lots of rain - apricots need lots of water to prevent the fruit from splitting.I mention this because

be tricky. I haven't found a 'regular' sized tomato that I'm ecstatic about, but have had good results from an Italian plum variety...San Daniele maybe? I'm having a go at some "black" ones this year, also Tumbling Tom in hanging basket. Trial and error

favourite for flavour. 'Brandywine' looks great but it doesn't seem like the sort I'd want to put in a salad. Plum type 'Roma' has had mixed reviews, but I'm tempted to try it as it's has a semi-bush habit, enabling me to grow it in troughs hung from