Thanks - I thought as much. It's not a great problem because we also have a little greenhouse that will hold the cornichons once some other things have been planted out. I just didn't think about it until all of them had germinated!

I am planning 2 all female F1 cucumbers in the tunnel - Socrates, which was very successful last year and Saturn. I have also got some seedlings of a gherkin cucumber called Cornichon de Paris. The cornichon packet does not mention male flowers, so presumably they will have them and need them to for...

Thanks for suggestions. The other thing I tried was wrapping them in foil and leaving them overnight in the aga. They were cooked to softness and the skin was easier to pierce. I'm glad they improve with time - we've got forty something to get through and it could take some time! The other one we tr...

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/7565 ... ginger-jam

is astonishingly delicious. Not chutney but really worth trying!

Sungold gets my vote too for growing both outside and under cover. I spoke to a grower on the tomato growers association stand at some show this summer where they were sampling a variety called Piccolo. He said that Sungold are hardly ever grown commercially because they split so easily. Which they ...

The variety in the BBC free seeds was Hunter, which is supposed to be more suited to this climate. I had already bought some and I've had about six fruits per plant, mostly fairly small but they have almost all ripened before I picked the lot last week. Previously we've grown a variety from Seeds of...

thought it might be too late for this year but I've found a few. Do you want to send me a personal mail with your address and i"ll send them. And what is a potato onion???

Jude

We had excellent trees from Frank Matthews last year but looking at their web site today, it suggests they only supply trade and you can't as an individual buy direct. I rang them winter 07/08 and said we were nothing like commercial but wanted to plant a small orchard and could I buy from them and ...

My daughter has a small but thriving business making preserves which she sells through Country Markets Ltd (WI market as was) and at other local produce markets. I grow the fruit and drive the car! Jars have to be certain standard sizes and lids must always be new and we use: m Very helpful people t...

Yes and yes.

Not much consolation though, is it?

If you use Dithane in a tunnel what precautions do you use to avoid breathing in spray?

Does it wash off fruit when they are picked?

thanks

Terribly glad that I read this just after planting broccoli in the tunnel! I grew 10 seedlings of (I think and I can't so far find the remains of the packet) Autumn Sprouting Broccoli from T&M. Just to try it out, I planted half in the tunnel and half outside. Outside we have already had lots of...

I've had the same thing on sorrel - black grubs and then shiny green/black beetles. No idea what they are. I squashed them and have only seen tiny numbers since, but I'd like to know what they are and what else might get attacked.

Thank you all for your suggestions. What we did was use JB's small balance. Presumably my big kitchen scales would work as well (after all a balance is a balance) but it would have been clumsier and I was grateful to use a balance that is hardly bigger than the chemical balance I used at school. We ...

That makes it much easier - I can use a thin plastic pot to weigh the powder and then know how much to use in future (by nice, portable volume) and err on the side of weaker rather than stronger.

thanks