i'm planning on buying a new greenhouse soon but i dont know if i should get glass panes or polycarbonate.
my allotment site can get quite windy and flooded last year.
which would you recommend? thanks

thanks so much for all your advice, its a massive help. i can now crack on with ordering. x

my allotment society is selling seed potatoes in 5,7 and 14lb bags or 2.5kg. last year it said on the order form approx how many seeds per weight so i could calculate how much i needed, this year they haven't so i haven't a clue how much to order. could someone please advise me on approx how many fi...

thanks for the quick response.
fortunately i dont have loads left so i shall make some chutney and try tying them up in ropes next year.

my onoins have started to rot i harvested them after the stalks had died down and i thought they were dry. i even left them spread out at home for a while before i removed the roots and excess stalk and have kept them in a cardboard box in my kitchen. most of them have now gone soft around the top a...

i think i'd like to try some green manure on my allotment this year. i've never tried it and dont know a great deal about it. what would you suggest as a good general one to use? i seem to recall reading somewhere that some green manures shouldn't be used before certain crops. any advice, suggestion...

thanks for all the great suggestions, i haven't planted anything yet. i'm probably going away for at least a month after christmas so i'm not really sure if theres any point putting any veg in. i think i'll have ago with some green manure, i've never done it before so i've started a new post on the ...

i'm currently making a designated bee/insect corner where i'm going to plant lots of wild flowers and have some insect habitats in an unused corner of my allotment as well as having insect friendly flowers in my more 'formal' flower bed.

the grass between the beds on our allotment is covered with buttercups, is there anyway of getting rid of them as they spread really quickly. we strim to keep the weeds down but it doesnt make much difference to the buttercups. thanks

is there anything i could be planting now for a winter crop in the beds which are becomming available. i dont really want to plant stuff to overwinter as the allotment flooded last year. thanks

i have grown some tomatoes, chilli pepppers and sweet peppers in pots on my windowsills (hoping to get a greenhouse on the allotment for next year) the tomatoes and chilli peppers are quite tall, should i have cut the tops off? if so at what hight? thanks

i'm just about to have my first go at pickling beetroot, when i've cooked the beets and boiled the vinegar do i add it all to the jar hot or should i wait untill they're cold? thanks

it didn't look like any of the asparagus spears came up so i strimmed the weeds. could it be dead?

OH I planted four early in the year, then a month later I planted two more just in case! The two later plants have caught up with the first four so now I have six fruiting, four yellow and two green. so we are having spaghetti courgette bolognese, veggie courgette chilli, veggie courgette curry, ro...

i took over my allotment 16 months ago and rather too hastily decided to plant an asparagus bed. the trouble is because the plot was such a mess and i had such a lot to do i probably didn't remove the weed roots thoroughly enough and over the year it has reverted back to a weedy mess in the corner s...