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mixed salad leaves for the first time this year. I sowed them in lines in the space where I intended them to stay and then thinned out the seedlings once they'd sprouted. I'm intending to use mine as baby leaf so I've thinned them to a couple of inches

they get going remove the smaller plant. Then pop the whole tube and plant into well dug soil in the garden. This doesn't disturb the plant at all (which they hate), and you can evenly spread them out without the hassle of thinning them. The tube will rot

to go into the garden  - for this year could you thin out some of the branches so that you can 'see through' it and still get (and give) the benefit of the butterflies and bees - and then take some cuttings - then when your cuttings are big enough

is important. The "heel" will usually end in a long wispy bit, usually of bark with no inner wood showing. That's the bit you can shorten to tidy it up. Ah, so I'm just trimming the extremity of the heel. That explains it.  Thank you!  It's the thin end which

please the plant has long thin leaves with crop of floweres on top which are a lighter green Hello Jean. I'm sorry you've had problems uploading an image. I've just tested the upload facility, and it worked fine. Can I just confirm that the image you

blighters! Keep a layer of fine horticultural fleece over them, my friend has had wonderful carrots since she started doing this. It is said that growing onions nearby helps, as the onion fly and the carrot fly get confused about the smells. Don't thin out

I have some seedling tomato plants, a few of which are being munched by what I can only describe as tiny, thin, white spiders. They are eating the leaves, and the infected plants I have thrown out. They are in my greenhouse, but I had the same thing

-so sowing then in a flowerpot will not work. Sow them outside where you want them to grow -direct into the soil and thin out once they have germinated-they are a comparatively easy veg . Thanks for your advice. i shall sow them on my alottment

Slugs may be diverted from your container-grown plants by fixing copper tape to your pots. The tape is thin, easy to cut and simple to apply. The copper will gradually turn green over time.A roll of copper adhesive tapeCraft pinking shearsall year

, preventing the flower from opening. An invisible soft, slimy layer of mycelium then fuses the petals together. The problem is most acute on roses with a multitude of thin petals.Apparently healthy rose buds develop and fatten but fail to open. They eventually