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Icollected my seeds last Sepember and i am pleased to find out how and when to plant them.Many thanks. This spring for the first time ever I have started growing some vegies in pots and have a small raised bed with beans, peas and tomatoes. I have

organic fungicide (maybe Neem Oil). Best luck, ThaiGer, Hi thanks for the advice much apprecieted. Its growing in the middle of my lawn, so its mostly in full sun. and i have planted spring bulbs around it. regards E lizabeth. Think that you can nothing do

Caster Oil plant which is planted in front of the Ivy has also died.  I really do hope the ivy is not dead as it is is so well established will take a long time to grow another one.    Hi all you can do is to cut off the brown leaves and hope that new

was planting beans. I eventually dug up one two inch one and took it to the youngster. That's as far as I can go in killing or, helping to kill, anything living. I have grass snakes in my raised vegetable beds. They disturb the soil and seedlings and I don

When I first started growing shallots I did so on the advice of Sam, on our allotment (aged 90 he was still tending his plot twice a day). He told me to plant shallots on the shortest day and harvest them on the longest. I'm a bit more haphazard

plants witch plants could you grow under conifers because some color would be good. Making nettle soup with spuds, is quite superb as a health pick-me-up ! Two weeks of regular quaffing of this stuff makes one into a Nettle 'Souper Man'! I am a

one looks like it's about to form. I planted 3 plants and potentially they all look like they'll fruit. Quite excited! I like a success story     Congratulations!  You're well ahead of me! Goodness Obama's heard about my courgette! .  I've got 2

before or after? Unless I've had time to establish crops for a few weeks and they are happy in the ground, I always leave sowing or planting till after my holiday: reliable watering friends who will do more than sprinkle the soil are hard to find

flowers are coming out, as are the perennial wall flowers, and amazingly the Communis Ricin caster Oil seeds have germinated where they fell to the ground when the plant went black with the frost- so will pot them on and hope for the best.  Thanks

hi, I have planted broad beans for a while now but consistently suffer from 'misses'. Is there a correct position for the seed when planting to achieve a higher success rate, for example vertical, horizontal, flat etc? No, it doesn't matter exactly