Centipedes are carnivorous therefore do not damage plants at all. They will eat any insect they can overpower and kill. So they are really a gardeners friend, although they do eat spiders which are also a gardeners friend.:

Two girls took over an overgrown 10 rod plot on our site and with help from their friends cleared the plot last Autumn and covered it in cardboard and then black plastic.Come Spring the plastic was removed,the cardboard left down and then covered. This was covered to a depth of 1"-2" of so...

Welcome back Stravaig.Good to learn that you and your family are safe and well.

Well Colin you surprised me!! I did not know that potatoes were determinate and indeterminate but coming from the same family as tomatoes it may be expected.Googling the subject First Earlies,Second Earlies are mostly determinate and do not need earthing up when in the ground just mulching.Main crop...

Welcome to the forum staceygrows. I,too,am going to put potatoes in containers;my experiment for this year.I have been advised to put 3 inches of compost/soil in the bottom of the container and put two potatoes on top of this opposite each other.Turn container through 180 degrees top up with another...

In the Google pages. This red tomato was grown in the village of Blaby in Leicestershire England just until the end of WWII. It was the main tomato crop supplied during the war, grown by Shoult’s Tomato Farm. The farm ceased operations just after the war and the seed was believed to be extinct for a...

"Allotment law states [councils] have a duty to provide if the demand is there." In Woodbridge there is only one site with 10 plots divided up into quarter or half plots on a rolling one year contract and 28 people on a waiting list. It has been decided that 18 of the sitting tenants have ...

I know that we haven't heard from Stravaig for a while.Hope she and her family are O.K.They are/were living in Kiev.

Spent a couple of hours on my plot today,tidying and marking off roughly what is going where.Bit of a nip in the air even though the thermometer on the shed was showing 14C.Ground warming up but still a bit wet to work.
Sap rising,time to start sowing.!!

Have you checked the fuse in the plug? Did you switch on the socket when you plugged the charger into it?Was the connection between battery and charger good?

I have ditched the car for short journeys and bought and use a tricycle.At my age safer than a bike;and the basket on the back is most useful.

"Some people eat snails. They must not like fast food." A man walks into a library and asks the librarian for books about paranoia. She whispers, "They're right behind you!" Want to hear a roof joke? The first one's on the house. What should you do if you're attacked by a group o...

Looking at Compo's photo's I wonder if there is more blue water pipe being used on allotment sites and gardens for protection than there is for carrying water around the streets!!!