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. It is time to bounce into 2010 with a light step and the feeling that valleys can be crossed in a single bound.Many people will have decided that the time has come to start growing their own vegetables. All those excellent Gardeners World projects and blogs

I moved to a new house and wanted a vegetable plot.  I did not read about digging it properly and now have a plot with turned over sods of grass, some reasonable soil and a lot of clay.  It looks a bit of a mess. I have turned the grass upside down

Hi Everyone. I'm new here and new to gardening! I have a good sized veggie plot and have already planted 2nd early seed potatoes (before the snow) and put my onion sets in last week. I have runner and broad beans, carrots, spinach, cabbage

It is you there isn't it? All this talk of vegetables is slightly worrying! i grew my own for the first time last year and really enjoyed it, cant wait to start again.starting onion and carrot seeds in the greenhouse this week! it does get very

Yes, they're a right pain in the backside - walking over the vegetable plot, seed beds etc. I try to keep them out but to little avail. What's the best form of deterrent - ultrasound, chemical sprays etc...?? we have foxes and badgers that come

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Learn how to hoe your vegetable patch effectively with advice and a practical demonstration from Monty Don. Find out about tool sharpening and how frequently to hoe your plot. all year roundMore advice on common garden tasksWeeding by hand

Hi Can anyone help with this? I am a very novice gardener, I hired a(non professional) odd job man to help me prepare a small vegetable plot so my kids could grow some vegetables. The thing is, when doing it, he found 3 wasp nests in the ground so

Hello, I am new to gardening.  Our garden used to have a septic tank and therefore a leaching bed.  It was removed at least 5 years ago.  I would like to have a vegetable plot on the old site of the leaching bed.  Would the soil be safe by now

How do you control/eliminate chickweed but without chemicals in a vegetable plot. I seem to get rid of it every year and lo and behold it comes back!!! The problem is that it will be seeding, so for best results you need to remove it before