Sorry - they are honey bear's not baby bears.

I fed them with our homegrown liquid feed - comfrey leaves that have been left in a large container of water for some time - it really stinks but seems to work well.

Hi - we've grown sweet potatoes for the first time this year, in potato bags outside. The temptation to see what was beneath the soil got too much last week and we emptied out 1 bag. We had several good sized sweet potato and quite a few quite thin & long specimen's. I shall now leave them til t...

Thanks to the last 2 replies. The onion squash are now curing well. I also have a good crop of butternut squash, festival squash and some baby bear squash - these are supposed to have black skins but they have only gone a very dark green and as soon as I touched them they came away from the plant. H...

Thank you, I've just brought back 21 beautiful looking squash!

Thank you Peter - I'm off up the lottie!

I've grown a really good crop of onion squash this year. The plants have started to die back quite quickly in the last couple of weeks and the skins of the squash are now hard. Is it too early to harvest them? I'm worried that if I leave them they will start to rot but if I harvest them now will the...

Hi - my squash plants have really taken off this week and are now spreading vey quickly. The question is, should I prune them to stop them spreading and if so how much do you take off each plant?

Having had no luck with smoking garlic has anyone a good recipe for pickling and any do's or don'ts ,what vinegar is best etc

Morning all, Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to smoke garlic, I have had a good harvest and wanted to try this method with some surplus. I have a stove top "hot" smoker which is great for chicken, fish etc but dont know if it can be used for garlic or if only the cold smoking ...