Hi Colin, Valor are delicious, dicovered them in sainsbury once the other year and my husband and i were bowled over by how nice they were and i have grown them every year since.

Good evening to you both, yes looking at the two bags, one is definitely more elongated so i guess they must be the Charlottes and the rounder ones must be the Valour. Thank you

I bought 2 bags of seed potatoes, 1 of charlotte and the other valour. They are both on the windowsill chitting but like a wally i removed both labels and now i have no idea which is which. Any ideas? I take it the charlottes wont grow first being earlies (they all grow at the same rate don't they?)...

Hi and thank you both for tips. Yes I think I'll try half and half. Did that with my citrus trees (and delighted to say they survived the unheated greenhouse.)I too find onion sets disappointing and expensive. Most my onions now are at least as long as my middle finger if not longer

Good morning all This is my 1st attempt at growing onions from seed. It's started off well. Planted them in seed trays on warm windowsills end of December. About 3 weeks ago I transplanted them into individual small pots and put them in an out house. Its not heated but it is frost free and they seem...

Hiya. With a bit of luck it'll eat them for me

I have just found a newt in a half full bag of compost that has been sat untouched all year in a damp part of the garden. I left it where it was so as not to disturb it. The thing is in the brief glimpse i got i also noticed some small white eggs in there too. Personally i thought they look like slu...

Hiya, thanks for the tip, i have picked off and disposed of the worst effected leaves and will keep an eye on it.

Hello, I have a dwarf cherry tree in pot currently in greenhouse to protect from peach leaf curl and birds, doing well but just noticed its got cherry black fly..will this blackfly migrate to other plants in greenhouse...i have all sorts of seedlings in there plus over winter broad beans and peas (a...

No it isn't raised...i too was wondeing if it was anything to do with the continual deluge.

Dear Snooky,

Thanks for your reply, i read the link and that sounds exactly like what i,ve got...start all over again. Ho hum

I've had 4 wonderful yrs of home grown asparagus. Though last year I noticed the beetles I tried to pick and kill many but over all they didn't seem to do any harm. Sadly this spring the asparagus is all coming up a couple of inches and then dying. Will it recover on its own for the following year? ...

Ok thank you, that makes sense. I have been snipping away at it, will try to leave it alone this year

I decided some years ago to plant a hawthorn hege around my kitchen garden as a wind break, value to wildlife and because they look beautiful when they flower, but after 5 yrs, despite eager anticipation every spring, it has never flowered...does anyone know if there are more than one type of hawtho...

Hi Geoff, thank you for your post. It has given me plenty of food for thought, it is something I will have to think about...what I am actually testing, seedlings starting or length of time they can sustain growth? It leads me to question, when businesses and/or individuals say they could not manage ...