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windowbox for the lovely seeds to look at!Kate, are you related to Julia Bradbury?Thanks for the tips! You be proud of your grass seedlings! Those planting chilies and tomatoes are dealing with leggy, straggly seedlings about now. Yours are fab

from the weather forecast, alpine strawberries might be the only fruits worth growing. Shame there are no alpine tomatoes. In my former, old established, cottage garden, I had wild strawbs everywhere. Although many were only pea-sized, they had a

want the rain to stop. I've had my wobbly moments in these last few weeks - I went to dig some potatoes the toher day nd was almost in tears when I found how few there were. The French beans and tomatoes and courgettes are not yet a disaster but are way

etc. as you pot them on, then I reckon that would work. And now I am kicking myself for not doing so on my blackberries and raspberries that I planted a month ago. I have just bought some bush tomato plantlets, and have two more blackberries (Reuben

, we feed it with erricacious feed and mulch but still no flowers. Any ideas please. Dai I would incorporate giving it some potash  in the form of Tomato feed, (Tomorite) as this helps initaites flowers and fruits. It may just be lacking this, so worth

with peony trees. They take a while to mature. And at this time of year they do put on a spurt of growth. new leaves etc. They are also hungry plants, so it might be worth feeding them with some Tomato fertiliser until after the flowering season

with several cans worth of water is better than watering a little but often(that simply encourages weak surface roots).lastly, in may/june give your rose a good feed with rose feed or tomato feed, to boost those blooms. Thank you Daisybird - I want my rector

pushing up from your base is probably shooting from the original rootstock.  Give it a feed of liquid rose or tomato food to help it along and some slow release pelleted chicken manure or blood fish and bone. Oh dear.  Thanks for the reply.  Everything I

I have a small back garden and a small allotment plot, I use 2 of the plastic mini greenhouses (4 tiers) to start most of my crops off.  I have just been out to have a quick look at everything and find slugs have eaten 3/4 of my tomato seedlings.  I

am in the middle. Plan is to grow Tomatoes, Onions, garlic, potatoes (growing in pots), french beans, spinach, rocket, might have a crack at carrots, would like to grow brussel sprouts but believe they need alot of room around each plant. Thanks again