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it comes again. Does anyone have any knowledge of using epsom salts as a spray on greenhouse tomato plants? The bottom leaves on my plants are curling, with brown mottling, before turning yellow - I'm told it's either a watering problem or magnesium

, salad leaves, aubergines, tomatoes, courgettes in pots..the only thing i would say is when growing any root veg in pots make sure the pots are deethis is my 1st year at planting vegp enough or you will end with with stubby veg....this is my 1st year

will not thrive if the nutrient levels are too low! They counted germinated seeds and the size and quality of the seedlings. Then they tested for growing on young plants and seedlings - 20 snapdragon and 20 tomato seedlings were potted up in each compost. Again

to sow, fertilise, thin out etc. Some things grow very well in pots, such as tomatoes like Tumbling Tom, strawberries specially for pots, spring onions, dwarf runner beans, such as Hestia, carrots (as they like light soils, not clay). jon lets just say

year of growing in a greenhouse and it is my pride and joy. I have been able to get decent tomato crops at last without the dreaded blight getting them. I also grow lots and lots of chillies  cucumbers and herbs and also start off all my other veg

then like tomatoes indoors in the cool greenhouse, but never earlier than that.  Hi chilli lover , I was in a shop recently named "Dealz" and they were selling compressed recycled cardboard pot in 3" and 4" pots for €1 ;49c I started to use them last week

.  This year I'm hoping to have a basket of tomatoes (well, I've just sown the seeds).         Hi swisssue,Have you ever tried rosebud geraniums(very tight rose like flowers), long season,good trailer.John Tomatoes and Strawberries in the back, fuchsias

, broad beans, carrots, peppers, tomatoes and coriander. Planning to sow calendula, Brassicas and parsley this week. I sow small seeds, mostly flowers in trays and large seeds, eg courgettes, runner beans in pots. I often put a stick such as short piece

planted 60 broad beans into small pots in the GH and finally planted tomato seeds into modules in windowsill propagators in the south-facing front room bay (they're usually up in 4 days as it's so warm in there, after which they'll go into the cooler

catch up. Greenhouse plants are different though, I sow at the first chance i.e tomatoes. Yes, not too deep...just slightly. I agree totally with point about growing conditions and light. They need as much natural light as possible nowCosmos are prob 4