Septembers KG had an offer for broccolli and carrots (amongst others) that can be planted now for an early crop next year. How do I acheive this as looking at all the carrot and broccoli seed packets they say not to plant over thw winter. Do I need to build a cloche for each??

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Ben

over half of my potato plants have snapped in the wind about halfway up the main stems. Will they still continue to develop?

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Ben

I watered them when the soil seemed dry. didn't want to "drown" them with to much water. When planting/growing potato bags/sacks how much soil is best under neath each seed potato? thinking now I should have had about 6 inch underneath.

JB Thanks for the pointers. Been out and dug up my 1sts (maris baird) and got enough for 1 meal!!!! Very disappointing! They were in a potato grow sack. I noticed at the bottom there were lots of tiny/un-developed ones. I've been using standard shop bought compost but think my problem might be the p...

I've come home today and found the stems on some of my main crop have snapped with the wind (about halfway up the stem), will they be ok to leave?

I've had the same issue. I planted out my chitted maris bards on 13th March but no flowers yet. However my estima's were planted out on 2nd April which are now starting to flower? Any ideas?

Thanks for the thread JB (and thank you for the welcome!) I guess now I need to decide what to do next. If the plants haven't grown much but look healthy enough (i.e. nice and green) do I just let them carry on growing and hope for the bor will I have "damaged" them and their potential cro...

Hello, I'm in my first year of growing tomato's, sweet and chilli peppers from seed and I seem to be struggling a little. I planted the seeds at the end of February in an unheated propogator in the sun on an indoor window ledge. The seeds appeared to germinate pretty well. I transplanted them all ou...