Hi - have done a very silly thing and got my mangetout/sugarsnap seeds mixed up with my sweetpea seeds. Only just realised, have gone to pick my lovely (what I thought were mangetout) when saw they were in my pot marked sweetpea!!! I am assuming it is too early for sweetpea to be podding - and I hav...

Hi Cath and John - will stop watering so much - and will definitely spray leaves with water as well - thanks for your tips - just not used to all this hot weather so early in the year.

Hi, not really a newbie, but am perplexed by my cucumber plants which are browning at the edges - not all the leaves are affected - they are in the greenhouse, and i am keeping them well watered - anyone got any ideas or reasons as to why this might be happening - have grown cucumbers for years and ...

Hi does anyone have a cucumber relish recipe that they can recommend - we have had a wonderful crop of cucumbers this year and I would love to make a cucumber relish - thanks

Hi, not sure if this is the right place for this question, but has anyone used the watering spikes that you can attach to 2litre plastic bottles, and if they have used them, what do they think of them. Can anyone recommend the best ones to use. Thanking you muchly.

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to post this query, but here goes. I have acquired a rotating composter (sick of rats in my compost), but I am not sure how it works. I know you have to rotate the bin, but I have been told that the compost can be ready in 3-4 weeks to use. Does anyone out the...

Hi,would like others thoughts on this. I have quite a large area of soil right next to our oil tank which I would like to use to grow more vegetables in. I am intending to put a raised bed there. This might seem a silly question to ask, but would it be safe to grow vegetables next to the oil tank - ...

Hi, One of my courgette plants is looking very unhealthy. I planted it out a week ago, and the leaves are going brown and shrivelled. I have not done anything different, apart from putting some slow release granuals in the soil underneath (someone said it would be a good idea to do this). Is this wh...

Chantal - thanks for that - I just happen to be doing my monthly shop tomorrow - let's hope they have some left

Peter - a few years back I put a wanted notice on our local village notice board - I had about 5 people contact me and I ended up eventually with a lovely FREE aluminium frame greenhouse which just needed a few panes of glass (these were expensive at about 70 pounds) - worth a try