I have grown these before and although they have not cropped fantastically, they have provided a return and the huge amount of foliage produced has given my greenhouse a jungly feel and provided some shade for other planting! So I took advantage of the offer in KG earlier this year. Many of the slip...

I too have been perplexed by the receipt of potato planters without a message! At last an explanation - thank you!

I fancied trying to grow some new potatoes for christmas lunch in my polytunnel. I bought some from a supplier a few weeks ago but I put them 'in a safe place' on receipt and only found them again yesterday. I was going to plant up some pots for my tunnel but got thinking about blight. All my outsid...

I was quite confused by this since our local council will not (at the moment?) accept vegetable peelings in the garden recycling bin/bag! I've never had to use one of these bags before (oh the luxury of a large compost heap), but a new house needing lots of attention and a brand new wormery (with so...

Excellent news it is! Hopefully Mortons / the KG readers will be able to persuade more shops to take it - I have been an irregular reader of Organic Garden magazine in the past as I have only ever found it in the Wisley shop and I only ever go there once a year or so (it being a 100 mile round trip ...

Watching GW this evening. Did MD plant the garlic upside down? Will garlic right itself if planted the wrong way up? Help! Planning to plant tomorrow (rain and work permitting).

Thank you

Hi Primrose I had the same thing last year with my green cabbages. I don't know what caused it, but assumed it was underwatering. However this year, when they've had even less water, they were fine (both green and red cabbages) - well at least the slugs thought they were as there is not a lot of the...

Mine too - well at least starting to show signs. I dug up all the outside plants yesterday and removed all the toms - loads (and loads) of green tomatoes - hopefully they're not infected and will ripen.

We can't have bonfires yet on our plots - what are you doing with the infected haulms?

Euch, but intersting to know that the huge orange things I find lurking in my greenhouse at ths time of year are black slugs! On slug disposal, I have always found the busy road at the bottom of our garden useful - any slugs that survive the game of 'chicken' (crossing the road) deserve to be allowe...

Following on from Johnboys explantion of how to grow horseradish non-invasively, if it is all picked at once, how do you keep it? I've just dug up my plants and replanted some young thongs, but can't possibly use all of the roots I now have - can it be preserved or frozen?

Thanks

Jacquie

Hi I don't think the crops that the Spanish grow for themselves ever make it to our supermarkets. Tomatoes in Spain are usually mottled green and red and very tasty - they wouldn't quiet get past our supermarket buyers - we get the red tasteless ones grown in huge polytunnels that the Spaniards woul...

My October planted seeds are now 1/2 to an inch hugh and looking healthy despite the cold - which is more than you can say for me. If it is going to be really cold this winter, should I cover them with fleece? I would hate to lose ANY of my favourite veggie plants.