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'm growing garlic,spring onions, carrots, tomatoes, strawberries, blackcurrants, chille peppers, leeks cabbage and curly leafed parsley and mint, this year! Its like livin on a farm! hehe!!!! Any other suggestions are always welcome! It was absolutely

and weekends, though I probably won't make it as far as Bristol. We had a 'Potato Day' up here in Yorkshire last month. I have a hive in my field where a local bee keeper keeps his bees. I don't have to do anything except thank him for some honey each autumn

lunch after doing some biodiversity gardening(planting sugar peas between my rows of potatoes), lesson no.2. We lost our elm trees to the elm tree beetle because they were all of the same species. Last year in Bristol, many Robinia "Freesia" trees died

brought in by the wind. Anyway , watch this space, Adam, as I nearly have enough saved for my deep beds to be built and I will save all the cardboard I can at Xmas.Incidentally, in Edmonton, Canada, where my sister used to live, the only way to grow veg

invasion. I have lost a lot of potatoes to them, and my over wintering greens are being eaten alive. I know one cure would be a good cold spell but has anyone else suffered, and what have they done to overcome slugs in epedemic proportions? Hello Campbell

thing they had in stock were the big grow-bags.  So no potato growing sacks, no tomato food and whatever the other thing was (I was so surprised at all of the stuff they had I went a bit bananas). If I see something in a Morrison's garden centre (they

. They are also very reliable germinators, with few failures. They grow fairly quickly so best not to start them too early in the season. Also pinch them out to get them to bush up and give you more flower. If you regularly dead head you will have masses of flower

Is it too early to plant out my tomato plants out in grow bags in sunny position? They are in a cold frame at the moment getting used to the colder conditions (they were taking up too much space on the windowsill!!) they're looking strong but I don

for several years.  Just recently it has been growing healthily, but no flowers.  Any ideas? maybe you need to up the feed/mulch and i would prune out old growth at the right time to encourage new shoots that will hopefully flower well for you Roie plum

to be consumed thus exacerbating the problem by allowing the cabbage white populations to increase. The same goes for potato blight if people just leave the haulms to propagate spores. Gardeners should look after their crops or compost them? We love to see