For 30 odd years I have sown aquadulce in November and produced enough to put about 30 x 2 portion meals in the freezer. This year I have healthy plant as usual but very few beans! Plant after plant is has no beans at all, some have just a few. I am sure I have done nothing wrong. Could it be that w...

Thanks everyone.

Can anyone please tell me why I can buy radishes in shops, which must have been out of the ground sometime, and are firm and crisp but the ones I pull from the garden start to wither in hours unless they are put in water?

Brilliant, thank you, Barkelberrybear.

Thank you, Sally. Very useful.

I love them, Poppy, just roasted in with meat as you would parsnips. I can put up with the wind, they are worth it but I have never had pains.

Does the rule about not growing parsnips etc on freshly matured ground apply to green manure? It will have been chopped up and dug in about 4 weeks before sowing.

For the last few years my kale and sprouts have been ruined by severe infestations of whitefly, so this year I did not grow any. Sods law, there isn't any whitefly anywhere on our allotment site. Has anyone any idea why this is? Is it general? Could it be a bonus from climate change? I am in Glouces...

For years I had a patch of bunching onion we called everlasting I think they were also called Welsh onions. They looked like spring onions and were very useful.They multiplied profusely and needed splitting every spring and autumn. I would take a handful and put one back in the ground to multiply. A...

Thanks for replies. It seems it's the stems that make it smell then?

Can someone give me some answers about making comfry fertiliser, please? 1. do I use whole plant or just the leaves 2. how long after adding water before it starts to smell bad, 3. for how long does it smell, 4. can it be stored for any length of time, neat or ready diluted. For instance could I tip...