Thanks Alan & Weed As you will see not many replies so I shall have to try with sets now & see what happens. Many years ago I was fortunate enough to see Bernard Salt's Keder House - he had smashing onions growing in there - about May I think it was. They were sets he had planted in the autu...

Hi Monica Having had a horse for many years I always had a generous supply of manure & needed to get rid of it! My potatoes had lavish helpings. I dug out a trench & put about a foot of manure in there put a spud on top. then dug out the next spit another foot of manure & continued down ...

My onions were awful last year - many just rotted in ground & others succumbed when stored.

So what I would like to know is...

Does anyone have experience of planting onion sets in a poly tunnel in March?

Will I get a successful crop?

Help!!

I have an old pear tree in the garden. The pears are a good size & ripened nicely after picking but...

They are very gritty near the pips. The grittiness persists after cooking.

Is this down to variety, growing conditions or what?

Not the actual figs or berries!!!! I have a friend who wants to grow some plants on a south facing brick wall ( garage). He would like plants that retain their leaves in winter & ones that hopefully produce something edible. I wondered about figs or loganberries. But maybe readers will have othe...

I never wash mine - just dry them off on a sunny breezy day. But even so I do check them during the first few weeks of storage. And yes I did find a couple of rotten ones. I put this down to blight - really bad here this year. If anyone is interested I put my potatos in paper sacks in a wooden chest...

I have been getting my seeds from Edwin Tucker for a number of years now & have not been at all disappointed with germination or other aspects of results.

My damson trees carried a very heavy crop but the problem is they are so tall I can only reach a few branches to pick them. Shaking the tree did not work too well - brought down too much rubbish!

Does anyone know whether it is possible to reduce the height of branches successsfully please.