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.  As the soil was cleared through  to the spring i replaced some of the card board having first scattered dried chicken manure and coverd with well rotted farmyard manure or soil. I also planted loads of potatoes to help break it all up. I could then plant

that your clematis are getting too much nitrogen, hence the excess of leaves - when you look at the NPK values, the N value should be about half of the K to get the balance right. I agree with the feeding recommendation.  I use potato fertilizer on all my

significant problem any more. My mum used to pour boiling water (usually excess from the cabbage or potatoes for Sunday dinner) over any weeds that ventured into our back yard and it worked a treat. No weed surely can survive being cooked at 90 odd degrees C

as if I was mad.  When it was all finished we just dug it over and started layering again ready for this Summer and the compost is fantastic.  You can do the same in any place... Even grown potatoes under straw. Incredible! Ah. So large transplants

. My mini balcony compost heap, however, was perfect.The following year I got my first allotment. I made mistakes there too. I sowed radish seeds in trays to transplant (and got laughed at by my new allotment friends), I planted potatoes in frosty

flower will need more attention though. Hans suggests daily watering and regular feeding, and swears by growing the plants in a cocktail of home-made compost and chopped raw potatoes, plus wood chips and bark. (For more of his tips, download the growing

've also dug it into veg beds and into the GH bed, tomartoes love it, as do potatoes. Depending on the weather it breaks down fairly quickly. You can also make a liquid feed from seaweed. I tie up a couple of bags, punch holes in the bags and immerse

Sound more like cutworms than slugs. the only slugs in Britiain that live underground are keeled slugs and they mainly eat things like potatoes. small slugs live under the soil as for this is where the eggs are to be found,and its the small slugs that do

grass in the middle of the pot,usually a  deep purple variety, then put in sweet potato  vines chartreuse and blackie ,and change out the fill plants with the seasons.I even add small gourds and pumpkins in the fall.Things that thrill, things that fill

to be dispatched until September but I was aware of that date when I ordered.  They are ok, will replace if you ring up and moan, I do find they can take their time, especially with things like first early potatoes, mine didn't arrive until end of march last year