Evening Colin,
J.Parkers have Sweet Potato Plug Plants for sale 6 for £12.99 and delivery £4.99 no matter how many you order and three different varieties.Go on their site and put Sweet Potato in the search box.Hope this helps.

Morning OH. Didn't Johnboy advocate something similar when sowitg Parsnips along the lines of dibbing a hole six inches deep.backfilling wih compost.sowing seed covering with more compost and watering in. With regard to Leeks Johnboy used to dig a trench a spit deep and then dib holes in the bottom ...

Called in at the allotment today,very wet but from experience three good days of a drying wind will enable me to get on with winter digging.Trimmed back some branches on the apple tree and cut out crossing branches and the weak ones.Disappointed with the size of the Kestral potatoes which I received...

Hello Stravaig.Your food items will have to be binned.Farmers are not allowed to make or feed Pig Swill from kichen or commercial food waste since the EU and UK banned the practice after an outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in 2001.

trying to get on with the winter digging but ground still frozen in places and some parts saturated after last night's heavy rain.And it was a pleasant day for digging today.Annoying, Onion sets,shallots and garlic sown before Christmas showing green shoots and looking good.Daren't sow Broad Beans d...

Now that I have turned 80 my pension has increased by a whole 25 pence per week!In the same delivery the taxman wrote that my tax codes were changing because I owed the Government money from my savings interest.What is given by one hand is taken away by the other!!!

Coincidence with regards to above post about manure ??.Just found out that the Compost Centre in Woking has ceased trading.They supplied the local garden centres locally and were very reasonable with their pricing.We are going to miss them.A lot of the plot holders on the site used their products ye...

Notice on gate to site "Organic Manure for sale £140 a load,£90 half load".Doesn.t state what constitutes a load or half load.Can't see many takers at that price .

Had a rummage and a tidy up of my shed and found that I ws low on specially formulated fertiliser for the likes of onions,brasssicas,potatoes etc.I have a 20Kg bag of growmore and that got thinking"Do I need to order more of the special formulas?Should I just use the growmore instead?"Look...

Both seem to do the same job when added to compost for potting up etc water retention,opening up said compost.using as a medium in which to grow cuttings.What is the difference between them,if any?If you use either of them,what for and how and why?

I don't grow a lot of potatoes now because in my household I am the only one who eats them on a regular basis,threeto four times a week and it seems to me that the scab in my ground is getting worse.I will buy 2.5Kgs of Kestral or similar but looking around the suppliers the prices for that size bag...

Discussion at the allotment about which plantlet to grow on from the strawberry runner.The neareest to the parent plant or the one at the tip?I take the one nearest the parent plant .Thoughts everyone.

Collecting a bucket of acorns daily.Becoming a bit fed up..!!

I used to use Mustard as a green maure when I had my plots in Cardiff.Bought kilogramme packs from the local Asian store and broadcast them on the area which I wanted "improving".Can't say that it was effective . I have bought in Phacellia seeds this year But like Geoff when I have used th...