For some reason, all my beetroot seedlings (outside - direct sown) appear to be toppled over (as if first stages of damping off) - they seem as if weak at the base of the stems as well ?! However, this happened several weeks ago and since then, none of them have died and all are growing well .... on...

I also tried bringing indoors peppers at end of last year - all large, strong, healthy plants. Within a week, everything (including the room they were in) was infested with whitefly - and that was that .... Few days after - when deciding on what to do - couple of huge caterpillars appeared (seemingl...

Having looked around on the internet, dill appears to come out pretty much on top also for attracting all things which munch on aphids: lacewings, hoverfly larvae, and ladybirds (larvae and adults) ....

Agreed ... I never had problems with toms either but there again, if there's something which may not help but can also be eaten / useful / looks nice, then why not .... Peppers I am worried about - last yeat there were couple of weeks when they were infested and growth of some plants was checked qui...

Thanks for the advice - I'll certainly be giving them a try this year ...

Somewhere I read (maybe here but can't find it now) that sowing poppies close to peppers can / will help to reduce aphid infestations .... they attract hoverflies - of which (as I remember) their larvae (?) eat the aphids ... is this true ? On a similar note, I also heard that basil (which we grow a...

As we have a relatively small veggie plot but some areas of narrow hardstanding (concrete) doing nothing alongside our and the neigbours garage, we'd like to try to grow potatoes in used compost bags. Anyone tried this, and how to know how many seed potatoes per bag .... seems obvious but assume it ...