heya, thanks for that tip....now I just have to find out what perlite is and where to get it from Can I ask, when you say its a disappointing crop, how many seed potatoes did you put in and at a rough guess how many did you get out? I have no clue as to how many I should hope/expect to get out of th...

Heya, thanks for your replies. I've just this minute ordered one of them to give it a shot thanks to your advice For the free spuds, I've requested the Arran Pilots, as a quick google said they were first earlies, whereas most of the others seem to be maincrop or 2nd earlies. Their site does say on ...

hey there, if any of you have read my other two posts, you'll know I'm just starting out and a complete thicko so far when it's coming to gardening. I'm slowly getting there tho, shame I seem to see a lot of the things I'd like to grow seem to be too late in the year to start on (the garlic for exam...

you're not kidding there. wish I hadn't cut my hair short on a #3 a couple of days ago to reveal my near balding head. bit of sunstroke suffering ongoing now I think, stonking headache!! It didnt even look that hot outside either, but sun was very intense. just got home to check, and I've noticed th...

wow...thats some in depth info, many thanks I really appreciate it. I'll keep my shallots in and see what happens. A couple of them from the bag that I bought (it was a council run garden centre - had about 30 shallots in - only 50p so not the end of the world if fails) had some green shoots stickin...

hi there, many thanks for the indepth responses. In the end I did buy a load of composts and dug it in thoroughly with the main soil from the garden. Initially I bought a load of peat based stuff from tesco at £1 for 20litres. Bought about 14of them packs (had to push 2 trolleys about - had grocerie...

aha - thanks for that I'll prob adjust it a little again to make use of the most I can get in there

any ideas on the storage of the remaining bulbs? will they go off quickly?

Hey again, I posted the other day asking advice about filling my raised bed. I've sorted that now thankfully (well need to get more bags to finish job) but anyways... I nipped to a local garden centre today and of the things I bought was a bag of set Shallots Red Sun. the cost was just 50p and must ...

heya all, and thanks for the responses. I'll have to quiz my parents what the actual sand is they have at their house, but presumably it'll be the wrong type anyway. Not to worry I guess, as tho the soil is prob quite claylike, its far from being claggy enough to recreate the scene from Ghost, so I ...

doh

glad I read this in advance

hiya Malk, I just this minute got back from tesco, where I was told the compost was currently on sale at £1 per 20litre bag, so quite a good price, and smaller bags for me to kart around . Its not peat free however sadly (not that I know much of the difference, but I presume that it doesnt have as m...

thanks for reassuring me Malk I'll whizz to b&q either shortly or tomorrow morning and get maybe a mix of both topsoil and compost if they do have it. I believe our soil does have a lot of clay so I might pinch some spare sand from our sons sandpit - not too much, but I'm sure just a little wont...

Hey there all, ok so here's the deal....I'm useless Computers are and have always been my thing, and have only just recently started getting the gardening bug with loving the idea of growing our own veg, aswell as for our young son to learn with and my lady to do the hard graft when I put the bad ba...