I grow my toms in the buckets that chicken manure pellets come in, just drill holes in the bottom, the chicken manure is pretty good too!!

There is something kinda good about boiling your own water, especially if you have whistling kettle. I keep tea and coffee in my shed, and some biscuits, am contemplating taking some snorkers and egg and bacon next time and have a cook up for me lunch, adding some home grown shallots and leeks for f...

It's ok they have germinated without any extra help from me at all.

Nice to see!!

Good weather this afternoon in Somerset, started t0 dig my bean trench (does anyone line theres with newspaper? started to fill mine with old sprout stalks, semi-mature compost and some horse manure, my lotment neighbour did this last year and got a bumper crop, and this year he has put his broad b...

Good weather this afternoon in Somerset, started t0 dig my beant trench (does anyone line theres with newspaper, started to fill mine with old sprout stalks, semi mature compost and some horse manure, my lotment neighbour did this last year and got a bumper crop, and this year he has put his broad b...

OK thanks I will hang on there and sew some more as well, what about covering the seedbed after sewing to promote warmth, i have some polycarbonate sheeting and also some coldframes to use?

Planted parsnip seeds direct in the ground about three weeks ago and only one or two showing, am I expecting too much, should I spread some polythene over the seed bed to help em along? We have had a couple of ground frosts here in somerset over the last weekend..

Now that one is tricky!! The kids are so far behind our ideas aren't they, yet it is their planet we are trying to save as they will need it for longer than we will

Hope you are right speedy but somehow I think this problem will get worse before it gets better

My allotment neighbour has a plastic council hut which he uses as a shed and Mrs Hedgehog has roosted in there looking quite fat...would she be pregnant? if so when are her babies due and when can he expect them to leave home? We have figured out that moving her is not a good idea, as she has bedded...

Ok Tigger you passed my test, I got four waterbutts at home and am about to put a small electric pump in them to spread the water around the garden a bit more, I use gel and mulch too, would love to have a well or waterhole but hey we cant have it all can we, I also have waterbutts on my allotment. ...

I tend to agree Tigger, but how about collecting your own water and saving some money? I know its not a lot but if we all had a few water butts for out gardens and allotments, collected from gutters etc, we would surely help the problem, whilst the government ofwat and every other man and his dog fi...

Hey folks I know that the water companies have a lot to answer for taking profit and not investing in water collection, but I am a little surprised that everyone is looking at ways of cheating the ban, how about water butts? guttering on sheds and greenhouses? Surely we are all responsible for savin...

I echo everyone's sentiment, but I don't think that it comes to everyone though, my Father in Law got very enthusiastic last year and helped me to dig over the new plot, he took no pleasure in winter digging and weeding and then no pleasure in pulling up the winter brassicas, he has retreated to his...

I think you would be better off just planting in holes using a bulb planter about four inches deep, when you earth up you will naturally weed out any weeds anyway, then as the plants get bigger less weed will grow under them anyway, choose a vigorous type with bushy growth, you will have cleaner plo...