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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

got rust due to prolonged torential rain. Nov rainfall was 365mm). The pods are currently about 4 inches (100mm) long and we're looking forward to harvesting them shortly. Any tips on the best way to prepare them for the table will be appreciated. Top

Oh yes, I did harvest the first potatoes and they tasted wonderful. I want to conserve the small ones for next year. The problem we faced last year was that most of the potatoes dried out or rotted away. Now I want to keep them in sawdust, in our

snowfall the country received for 24hrs ,if one recalls .But my Braeburns,and Beauty Of Baths thrived. We have two huge apple trees which without any care give us an enormous crop every year. Unfortunately they are too high to harvest and the squirrels

allomentt said its because of the rain,,,this is our 1st year of growing our own and my it is hard work but now so worth it,everyone is doing there harvest,rasberries still doing well,next year might try different tomatoes to grow and see which ones grow

as they decompose, and this is a useful nutrient that following crops will be able to take up. what is the best killerto use to kill the rootsto bamboo Thanks for the advice Adam I need to harvest mum and dad's dwarf french beans (they're away until the middle

I planted my main potato crop in the middle of April when is the best time to harvest

Watch Monty Don and Chris Beardshaw's video guide to harvesting potatoes grown in a bag.summerMore advice on growing potatoesRead Lila Das Gupta's blog on growing potatoesChitting potatoesGrowing early potatoesGrowing potatoes in a bagEarthing up

I planted Elephant Garlic cloves in containers last Autumn, they look like large leeks now, how do I know when to harvest them please? I generally wait until mid May then gently move the earth away from one to see how it is doing. Mine are looking

I've just grown my first maincrop potatoes - maris peer and a purple skinned one (can't remember what it's called). When I went into the garden this morning the leaves were rotted on all of them. They were fine earlier in the week (a bit chewed by the snails which are plaguing me...