Is it possible to overwinter sweet potato cuttings for planting out next year.

all toms do well indoors. the trick to keeping an indoor crops healthy is ventilation. blight in particular will thrive in humid conditions so keep those doors open even overnight during the summer even during the winter indoor crops need to breathe.

My crysanths have got some form of blistering on the leaves and have not grown as well as i would have liked although they have flowered well , i have been told that they may take a while to acclimatise to my garden and next years cuttings will flourish? They were bought as rooted cuttings by mail o...

the site from what i can gather has been there since at least the war with an additional few plots added on to accomodate some refugees from a nearby site which was built on. Its these plots which the council has got the jitters about. my plot is one of these i think. i need to do some digging with ...

Well thats nice!!! had a hand delivered letter from my council this week warning me of possible heavy metal contamination on my allotment site. it made headline news in the doncaster edition of our local rag. all plots are to received further testing foloowing on from tests made earlier on in the ye...

As with all undercover growing ventilation is important. Even during the winter i will ventilate my tunnel overnight during cold snaps to prevent condensation and use fleece to protect the crops. beware that excessive heat and humidity can be just as damaging as a lick of frost.

Dear brooklyndog, do you intend to put a path around the outside of the tunnel or do you want to cultivate a border like i do. either way you will lose some square footage of land to cultivate. the trick is good planning. the tunnel itself is more productive with a path down the centre instead of a ...

thanks for all the help guys.

monika, colin,thanks for the advice i dont know where the infection has come from as i always clean my tools and never accept plants from other gardeners. luckily my whole plot is bedded out with paths in between to enable me to keep track of crop rotation i can only hope that this is an isolated in...

whilst i was cleaning the old dead leaves from my purple sprouting bed i noticed what looks like clubroot on three plants. the plants themselves were poorly looking anyway so i pulled them and discovered clubroot so i burnt them. upon inspection of the other plants i found further infection in half ...

My usual went up in price considerably but my merchant saw it coming and switched suppliers . i was paying £4.95 per 20kg and now paying £5.20 per 20kg with a different supplier with no drop in egg production. i only keep poultry for my immediate needs and any extra are sold to cover feed costs.

dear di, nowt wrong with overdoing the ordering this will give you the chance to pick out the strongest chitted spuds and firmest optimum sized onion set to plant in the space you have. i deliberately over do it and select the seed to plant to gain maximum yeild. i have no qualms about binning a tra...

cheers guys, will try to lock them up at night, i say try, as my work hours are 7 till 7 ,3 on 3 off alternating days and nights. i visit the plot twice a day regardless to feed up and water before and after work and just let the livestock come and go into their house as they please. the chickens kn...

it seems my chooks have gone into a late moult very early on in their lives suffice to say i wont be buying any more. i have gone back to my original feed supplier to find that they no longer stock dobson and horrels. its a good job the ducks have started laying but trying to get them to lay in the ...

I have a small flock of 14 hybrid rhodey/sussex crosses which i purchased at pol in june this year. they settled in fine but recentley their laying performance has dropped dramatically. is this particular breed (first generation crosses)susceptable to following the laying pattern of its pure breed p...