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then you can leave them in pots and just add a good quality feed every few months during the growing season. You can also feet tomato feed once a week when the fruit are starting to swell if you keep them in their pots. I have cherry, apple and plum trees

. They are on module trays but the pot part is 2x2x3" can see some roots at the healthy plants. Just wondering if I should feed or change the compost as it was old tomato compost!! I took cuttings about same time as you RD and re-potted them about 4-6 weeks ago

frost-free, but often that's still only just above zero. My little rudbeckias and antirrhinums – both from the Seed Club 'Blooms for Bees' pack – have been so unhappy they simply stopped growing. Worse, the tomato seedlings turned an ominous shade

heard MDon saying that you should pinch out when planting them out, so I may try this year. They have been out every day and in at night; I think I treat them the same as tomatoes - it is going to have to be pretty warm before I let either go 'clubbing

(last year's crop was dire due to the drought), so I'm trying tomatoes (Ferline) instead with Borlotti beans this year in the squash bed.  Whatever you try, the squash will soon cover everything, so either a fast-gowing salad (beetroot might just make it

of long grass around the edges of the lawn (which has no straight lines or clipped edges). I’m also far too soft with my frogs. When I cut down my tomato haulms the other week, I found five frogs snuggled together in the grow bag. I couldn’t bear to turf

and Purple sprouting broccoli in the veg garden, onions and butternut squash in the garage, and tomato soup and runner beans (from the garden) in the freezer. Click on the arrow next to the smiley on top and a selection for you to choose from should appear

of courgettes, beans, tomatoes and chillis. My favourite recipe is ratatouille,which is basically a french vegetable stew.Soften onions, garlic, courgettes, mushrooms,aubergines,in olive oil.Add in lots of peeled and chopped tomatoes,about 1/4 bottle of red wine

Hi! At the beginning of the year we used the free tomato seeds from Gardeners World and are still eating our crop - they were very good little tomatoes with a lovely flavour and which suited our limited space for growing. Trouble is I can't remember

. changing the subject, can anyone tell me why the vines on supermarket tomatoes last so much longer than home picked vine tomatoes? what do they spray them with to make them last. this year i was amazed at the number of people on our allotments were all