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- Sun Jul 01, 2018 10:20 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: A Pictorial Trip Around the Plot
- Replies: 22
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Re: A Pictorial Trip Around the Plot
Good morning. I need advice about raised beds, please. I have a veggie plot in a city garden and am finding it more and more difficult getting down to ground level! Are beds tailored to the height of the gardener? And I see from your pictures that you have beds of varying heights. Why? Also, how muc...
- Tue Jun 12, 2018 7:40 am
- Forum: Ask the team
- Topic: Courgette seed failure, is it too late to start again
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8546
Re: Courgette seed failure, is it too late to start again
Hi Westi Good luck with your yellows. Mine are coming along quite well, so far! I have never grown them before and wonder if they have a different taste to the green ones. Do they? I have now resorted to using grey water. Has anyone else? I see rain is on its way - pity it may be at the weekend for ...
- Mon Jun 11, 2018 5:07 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: What distracts you on the plot ??
- Replies: 18
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Re: What distracts you on the plot ??
Nothing as noteworthy as special planes flying overhead to distract me in my city veggie patch, I have to say, but I often stop to watch and listen to the birds. Also, I have at last found a squirrel-proof bird feeder (now hanging in the small apple tree near the house) which really works.
- Mon Jun 11, 2018 4:56 pm
- Forum: Ask the team
- Topic: Courgette seed failure, is it too late to start again
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8546
Re: Courgette seed failure, is it too late to start again
Hello everyone, I have finally worked out how to take part in the forum again! Re courgettes this year I was feeling chuffed that I had raised six plantlets so gave two away. Then when I was planting my four out it was too windy and the stems snapped on two of them! I am now back to four plants....,...
- Thu Oct 20, 2016 6:09 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Autumn Bliss raspberry canes
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7704
Re: Autumn Bliss raspberry canes
Hello everyone and many thanks for quite a variety of answers to my question. The manure arrives in packets tomorrow (I live in a city and without a car) and in due course shall knuckle down to gradually dealing with it. Also, good idea about the slates.....sorry, forget who suggested that.
- Sat Oct 15, 2016 12:59 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Autumn Bliss raspberry canes
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7704
Autumn Bliss raspberry canes
I need some advice about my Autumn Bliss raspberry canes, please? I pruned them yesterday and today whilst tidying them before the rain and manure laying would like to move some 'escapees'. Can I do this?