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fancy chilli varieties? Try growing 'Cayenne', and avoid growing them in a greenhouse as they're likely to attract red spider mite etc. A large pot and a sunny windowsill and you're laughing.Gardening Express - I agree that many plants sown too early

Invigorator. I'm also using this as a regular preventive spray on greenhouse cucumbers to avoid red spider mite and whitefly taking hold, and it appears to be working. I have loads of blackfly on my runner beans, well I did have until I washed and squashed a

comfortably in our conservatory (S.E.England) as it has done for the last 4 years. It seems happy to flower & fruit (with a bit of manual pollination) all through the winter & only requires a bit of judicious pruning if it gets leggy. Yes, white fly & spider

's leaves if it gets too dry, and is a martyr to red spider mite and scale insect. Not that I want to put you off, as it's a lovely plant! When it gets big, the leaves are coarser and less interesting, but I can guarantee you won't get that far. If it starts

not need pruning except to keep them in bounds.  I'm thinking of the alpinas - definitely not the montanas - and the Atragenes like Purple Spider, Frances Rivis and Brunette.   These are not evergreen so would still be on teh arches in winter but looking a

or can you get by with adding nutrients and feed to it? Hope you don't mind all the questions. Hope you've warmed up bunnysgarden. It was an exotic -4 where I live! Let's think..  Aphids, spider mite, tomato moth, white fly, vine weevil.. Oh, sorry, you

pesticides and we have a diverse amount of wildlife include slowworms, beetles earwigs, ladybugs, cattapilars, hoverflies, lacewings, bees, quee bees, honey bees butterflies, moths, toads, may slugs, spiders and worms, but the house sparrows tend to be fat

and put them into the log store; I have been putting this off for 3 years as am terrified of spiders    I apologise for being so smug Sorry to be a pedant but any Dad's Army fan will tell you it is Captain Mainwaring, pronounced Mannering.  Except

My greenhouse tomatoes, which were doing well, are now suffering. This started off in the form of curling leaves, which then developed mottled brown patches and are now turning yellow. Some of the yellow leaves are becoming floppy and mould like in small patches. This is working ...

I had never given ants much thought until twenty minutes ago but I not only have them in my compost bin, they're now in my greenhouse. Help how do I get rid of them?P.s. Im not a killer I usualy pick up spiders and put them outside whilst others