Thanks for the advice - I guess I'll start picking

How do can you tell when gooseberries are ready for picking?

Sounds tastey doesn't it. Unfortunately its not a recipe but a problem. Both my cucumber plants appear to be ok (growth wise) except that the leaves are going yellow, "crispy" and dry and no fruit is forming on them. I thought it might have been the sunlight and tried to shade them a bit -...

Chantal, Thanks for the reply. I can understand the need to log onto a forum to post messages but not for reading them. Especially for such an important forum as "seasonal tips" as there is alot of useful advice present that I used to read until it recently disappeared from the menu. If I ...

Went to the allotment yesterday to find the leaves on most of my early potatoes have gone brown or black. My first reaction was blight (but isn't it a bit early for that?) I checked around and discovered the same on other plots (except one). What could have caused this? I now suspect frost damage (b...

I used to be able to access this forum without logging on - now I can't. Just wondering what the reason was for the change in access rights.