Thankyou for all your concerns, Im currently doing the "Point & Plant" I point & my partner plants digging & bending is pretty much out for me now anyway I have three raised beds which I'm going to start the lasagne method of the no dig bed to see if I can actually get away wit...

Thankyou so much for all your good wishes & brilliant advice & PM! this year is certainly not a lost cause A chance conversation with an elderly chap weeding his front garden yesterday yielded me some climbing beans, sweetcorn & squash plants I walked past his garden with my dogs & h...

Hi Folks! Haven't been on the board for a while due to health probs but just wondered if you can help me out? I need some advice on what I can still sow now? so far my partner who is not green fingered managed to keep the toms aive so they were planted outside a few days ago but I would still love t...

Bio-Friend Pest Defence, its sold by Victoriana Nursery in Kent

About 10/12 yrs ago I bought what I thought were called propapacks from a seed catologue, they were polystyrene module trays (not the strip type that you buy bedding plants in), but I cannot find them anywhere now Does anyone know who sells them?

Hi Piglet! 70p isn't bad, I think what we all have to remember is that gardening is a hobby & when we have a hobby we spend money on it, its not like paying the leccy bill for the household things, we need to think of it as paying towards something that we enjoy doing after all Do we give the pr...

I see what your saying although if it was on only half the time thats only a fiver & the leccy is "On Tap" as it were no trips out to buy the parafin so there probably is not a huge amount in it

Now for some maths! just to give you an idea how to work out how much something costs to run Appliance wattage "Divide by" 1000 "X" Time on = Units used example of 3kw heater 3000 "div" 1000 = 3 "X" 10 (10hrs) = 30 units used Price per unit will depend on who ...

I've now had a chat with a local fruit grower who has advised me to lightly cultivate the soil beneath the tree so that this desturbs the pupae, you do this around feb/mar time & again in april just going over the soil with a hoe moving the top 2" or so, hopefully the birds will be attracte...

I grew them last year & I would not grow them again either very bland, I'll go back to Gardeners Delight again this year

Helen

Brilliant info John Thankyou just one question! I have two raised veggy beds & just wondered if I could plant them closer together then gradually thin them once the "thinnings" are of a useable size?

Helen

Any hints & tips for growing swedes? can they be started off in pots?

Hi
I only have two smallish veggy beds so needless to say an ordinary pkt of seeds will last several seasons usually past there "Sow By" date is there a better way of checking the seed is still viable at the beginning of the season than sowing them & hopeing for the best?

No its not, one of the many that got banned!

Thanks Sue, I'm suffering from itchy fingers!