Could you hear their plaintive cry in the night? "Why? why? why?"

JB your point is a good one and the efforts of unscroupulous traders to 'cash in' on the grow your own movement makes my blood boil too. If we had a good swap scheme they wouldn't te so succesful. I was in Homebase in Millbrook near Southampton yesterday to pick up some tiles and was astounded to se...

Wonderful!

Thanks JB. I dont post too much but always read your replies to others with great interest. The Knighthood can't be far off now surely? On the question 48" beds, we bought some from Harrods as Mrs B has incorporated them into her garden design for the new house and old floorborads wern't quite ...

Hi all

I wonder if anyone can rcommend a spacing distance for cabbages in raised beds, especially Greyhound or Hispi

On the grounds that spacings are closer in raised bed systems I'm hoping to pack em in but wonder what success others have had.

Thanks for any advice

David

I'll watch this space eagerly as I am in the same boat.

Thanks

I have been guilty of this too of course and I suspect that with me it is more the 'jackpot' principle at work - same as not being able to stop buying chocolate from the machine as every success feels like a win. When I see those waving armies of seedlings stretching into the haze of great distance ...

Does this apply to cabbages as well? I'm told not to use manure on cabbage beds in the same season, like carrotts but have always been confused. If I use three year old composted manure can I put it on my cabbage beds now or does it have to be on the bed for a season before I plant? or is that all h...

The one time I tried caulies (with help from the kind folks on here) they were a huge success, so I would be listening carefully to thier advice.

What spoilt it for me was an invasion of fleabeetle! Didnt fancy eating them after that and havnt grown them since.

David

Thanks Richard. dont know why I didnt think of him myself, I'll go take a look

cheers

Hi all

I wonder if anyone has this book and can recommend it?

Greenhouse Gardeners Companion - by Shane Smith.

Alternatively perhaps you could recommend another title. I'm mainly looking for a schedule of veg and flower plants sowing, cropping, rotation etc.

Thanks

David

Thankyou all for your advice. Richard my ghouse is 10X8 so a lot smaller than a tunnel I think and glass of course. Do you think the crops will be succesful in what I think might be a hotter environment.

Ive never even been in a tunnel so have no idea what conditions are like.

Thanks again

Hi all I saw it wriiten that I should start peas and broad beans in the greenhouse. I did that last month and they are now up a few inches. My question is should I now be planting them out in the ghouse beds for an early crop or hardening them for outside planting later? I just dont know if they wil...

Isnt it amazing the lengths we will go to.

I watched a program about the Home Guard last week and it's clear that spirit of determination and inventiveness is still alive - now its bugs and not stormtroopers but a wonderful thing to see anyway - well done!