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during the dry weather. It is much easier having the raised beds. On Thursday we had our first potatoes, grown in a bag, and also mange touts peas which I have grown for the first time. Hooray, it is another rainy Sunday in Bristol and I popped in a lot

peeking up.  To see sweet peas in flower and new potatoes being lifted, doesn't encourage me to keep viewing.  Get real!   This is really an old chestnut with the greatest respect-it is a matter of making adjustment to your own growing conditions-what do

with a big garden and the more I read the more I found out how little I knew, so kept putting off taking the first steps till suddenly it was May. I went to a nursery and bought cheap (it being so late in the season) seed potatoes, onion sets, leeks, a

for planting other crops the following year. Then next time plant your potatoes in the new area you've cleared.I've heard that drowning the couch grass is a good idea so that it can then be composted. Does anyone have experience of this method - does it work

any tips would really like to here. happy gardening. Have got first veg patch, got plenty growing have eaten cauli already with caterpillar. carrots are doing well but popping out of soil, do i cover them back up, like you do with potatoes? Toms

be raised indoors to plant out later in spring when the weather is warmer (usually towards the end of May).Also Ben, do have a go growing potatoes in pots. You'll find lots of advice on how to do this on web sites.Enjoy yourself, and have a productive year

net over them can anyone help? Chop a red onion into a pan, sweat it but don't fry it, add thin strips of zuchinni sliced lengthways (I use a potato peeler for this bit), add some fresh coriander leaves and a small fresh chilli pepper. Allow

potatoes,beens,carrots and onions red/white over the winter do I use sacks made of paper or sacking.I also moved a gooseberry bush in Feb and it appears to have died should I leave it to see what happens next year how do i get rid of mares tail. I am a new

the spring and planted corn on the cob , cabbage , potatoes,Brussels, Runner Beans ,peas,aubergine,courgette,lettuce.. all grown in multi purpose and horse manure. courgettes have 3 visible only on getting approx 5inches,corns doing ok WHEN DO I KNOW WHEN

up parsley on the windowsil" which i did and true as bob, it came up and its looking good!! BUT, can i transplant it to my allotment...? mmmmmmmmm please help! when can you plant potatoes Hi I am feeling quite pleased with myself Jane, as I did plant