Search - Sitewide

are left, and whether I can start digging in the muck this coming weekend With the ground frozen solid there want be any leek and potato soup just yet, the garlic's in so I played in the garden with my vac and hoovered the leaves, shredded them

made apoint of asking if he used any products containing the chemical and he assured me he didn't.My potatoes are looking distorted and some other crops are not looking to good, not sure what the futures holds.I don't think farmers are aware

have suffered a total potato crop loss three years ago it was just over a hundred kilos that rotted in my garage due to blight. I read up on a cure but wanting to stay organic I found that the only recomended spray for organic gardening is Bordaux

was. As for growing on them on clay I discovered that a small amount of gravel in the bottom of an over large bulb hole (about the size you might dig for potatoes)seems to have done the trick for planting on our heavy clay. I now grow 4 varieties (well

around £10 works very well indeed. hi can anyone tell me what to do with my potatoes. they are growing extremely tall and leggy, they are in bags, and when I looked to see if there were any tubers, there were none. Only one plant has flowered so far. I

and exhausted vixen, but they became the enemy in vegetable garden, playing in the beds and breaking onion and potato plants. Neither the electronic device nor spraying dented their enthusiasm for our garden. The first time I ever saw a fox I must have been

the feeders come easter, then hopefully ill see my flock of greenfinches in the summer as well as stripping the sunflowers in the winter. I provide water, lard, porridge oats and dried fruit; Niger seeds, crushed peanuts, cooked potato, chips, sausages, (but

usual with most hedgerows displaying them in full bloom. Seed potatoes going in tomorrow (Jersey Royals) and rhubarb unfurling leaves. Feels hopeful despite returning to very cold temps. today. My bulbs are just showing through but my neighbour has

and weekends, though I probably won't make it as far as Bristol. We had a 'Potato Day' up here in Yorkshire last month. I have a hive in my field where a local bee keeper keeps his bees. I don't have to do anything except thank him for some honey each autumn

lunch after doing some biodiversity gardening(planting sugar peas between my rows of potatoes), lesson no.2. We lost our elm trees to the elm tree beetle because they were all of the same species. Last year in Bristol, many Robinia "Freesia" trees died