Today two items on gardening in the media.

1) I saw as soon as I opened the newspaper: Weeding, writing and arithmetic… why green fingers are good...

A couple of months ago my beetroot were attacked by leaf miner and lots of leaves began to turn brown. I thought I'd had it as far as a good crop was...

I have just got an pressure cooker and was having difficultly getting recipes for one person ( dividing ingredients does not always work because of...

Hi,

I was looking for some information on blanching and freezing and found this forum. I had a look around and liked what I saw so I decided to join...

There is lots of adds for potatoes to sow for Christmas, so wondering if I can resow some of the spuds I have just harvested?

Watermelon "sugar baby" grows really well on the balcony, in a large container. As the balcony is extremely hot, luckily I don't need a...

I have Gem Squash growing fantastically. They are producing tubers and flowering, however once the fruit starts forming the flowers are tending to...

I lost all the tops of my potatoes with blight last week, first early, second and main. I have chopped all the tops off the potatoes. Tonight I...

Can anyone tell me why my heathy pumpkins form, flower opens, bees seem to enter the flower. the flower dies back and the pumpkin appears to be fine...

My husband helped organise our annual charity village fete on Saturday, a feature of which was the village draw to help rise money for village good...

Dear Poddington Pea, hope you have a wonderful Birthday and keep up the good work on the allotment.

Probably because I followed recipes that may have been poorly researched and I do know that many cook books in the past had 'page fillers'. Then...

My bulbs are a good size and have dried nicely so I used one clove in a stir fry. I've never grown them before so was rather disappointed that it...

Today we received our National Trustmagazine . It came packaged in an outer wrapping which said

"I am 100% compostable and contain Potato...

My partner is interested in saving seed, and has asked (for his birthday!) for a set of seed sieves.

I've tried Googling, but all I can find are...