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. Potatoes are good, as are broad beans, runner beans, onions and lettuce, but the only carrots we have managed to grow are in a pot, nearly ready to harvest, we haven't any beetroot, sown it 3 times and got nowhere. Soft fruit has cropped well, blackcurrants

post I had very little hope for this thread, now it's one of my favourites. What's the best type of waxy potato? I do like pink fir apple, but Charlotte seems very popular You lot are so sarcastic and silly. I can see exactly what the original poster

read the pages this site.  I am not a beginner gardener but nowhere near a expert one.I Have an allotment and have in the past thoroughtly enjoyed working the ground but this yesr with all the rain and the plague of snails in the potatoe area (all were

2 lbs potato last season Hello  Jon Cob - here you are again with yet another ID  Dove, I had my suspicions but I won't rise to his comments ! Yes, best ignored. Bookertoo - the thing about cleaning windows occasionally is that the dogwoods appear

's things that are required pronto, several times I've 'missed' the season due to fruit trees being dead or potatoes and garlic not arriving for an age. Last year T&M sent me my autumn onion sets and garlic and daffs the first week of Dec, we had hard frosts

an carrots both in large planter boxes which have polly tunnels over them and ime keeping my fingers crossed. I hav'nt planted my dustbins and pots with potatos although like yours Jane they're there waiting with chits on. Do you just leave all the chits

and they no longer attack the bird feeders or our garden. I'll swap your squirrels for my badgers. I could plant potatoes in the furrows they leave on my lawn! You can have the three fallow deer also. Having had problems with squirrels digging up my crocus bulbs

've been using to grow potatoes in. We didn't want to add anything else to it so the weekend grass clippings can start off the new one. We're going to compost cardboard in this one as well. We have noticed the wildlife in the first one and along

,(paper is made from this)animal and bird manures including night soil if you can get it,but I would not use cat or dog droppings, coal ash may contain sulphur but we used to get some of the best potatoes off our local council tip during the last war,and tomato

.Thanks GW!x Irish Potato glad you have found frogs. we have had tadpoles in our pond but they and the frogs we usually see have all gone. Where one might ask. All my neigbours have said the same thing, no frogs big or small anywhere. I HAVE FROGS IN MY