Thanks - where is Alan's link?

When planting out toilet rolls, make sure that the cardboard is below the soil surface, otherwise it will wick water up and become dry.

Please could you tell me which tomato variety is the hardiest for outdoor cultivation? Presumably one originating in Siberia?
Also, where may I obtain seeds for Sasha's Akai (or is it Altai?)

Here in North Yorkshire, on the coast, things seem to be fine - I see no problems like some of you describe.

Hello folks, I happened upon a thread relating to John Yeoman and his books, and since I belonged to the Gardening Guild when it was functioning, I tried to get to gardening guild.org as mentioned in a post by JY himself, admittedly some time ago. Does anyone know whether this site still exists and ...