I seem to be having difficulty in growing spouting broccoli, can grow normal broccoli (calabrese) ok.

I suspect they need to be over wintered, any...

Do you recall me saying my pumpkins & squash did nothing when I sowed them but the seeds looked just fine, like out of the packet? So I sowed...

The drive belt keeps jumping off the large drive belt pulley. I think the reason it is doing this is because the drive belt is not sitting correctly...

The Pallet wood Hydro-driver is a ‘mechanical’ way of actively driving moisture out of water-saturated ‘heavy-clay‘ soils during the critical root...

Surprised this hasn't been posted already,

If you have not taken part before the link leads you to a page where you may click on a 'survey...

Autumn is a period of pumpkins) I work as an essay writer , but I like cooking, especially from the own-raising pumpkin. Pumpkin Gingerbread sounds...

Decided to roast some of the tomatillos - just spread them out on a baking tray and popped them in the oven for 12-15 mins. They sort of exploded...

Is there anything I can add to make tomato skins softer?

Hi

I have the following seeds if anyone would like them. They were all bought earlier this year.
1 full unopened new packet of Leek 'De Carentan...

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Beryl.

The Organic Academy helps people learn to grow organic food. Growers join our friendly online community and build their skills with courses that take...

I had a lovely lot of Persian silk tree babies growing in a seed tray in the greenhouse. Checked them today and half have bent over with the cold....

I was sorting out my seed boxes today and came across this one dated 2008. (Yes, i know but we all have a few oldies lurking in our collections,...

My garden started off empty with just an apple tree, 2 roses plus a few plants brought on special offer.

The apple tree had a very small amount of...

Today I picked up a rose bush at the range for £2.50
The only label on it calls it Rosa the fairy. And says its a 0.40m mini rose bushes. Other than...

I've kept finding damage to my peaches and thought it was slugs or snails, but for a change they are innocent, it is woodlice. I've picked some ripe...

Well not the show actually but kind of related!

Red Arrows did the show in Bournemouth this evening. (The day events cancelled due to the high...

My onions, which are almost ready to be lifted, have all suddenly developped black upper leaves, although those below have remained green and the...

Having problems with my Toms again. This is on a plant of Ailsa Craig. The fruit has grown to a quite big size but are mealy inside. This is grown in...

I know this has been done before and there are hundreds of recipes out there but does anyone have a simple recipe without all the frostings and cream...

My cordons have always been a bit untidy - I'm an untidy gardener - so they haven't really been shaped very well. Although the advice for summer...

Does anyone have an answer to this problem of squirrels trashing carrots even though they are well protected. My tunnel was surrounded with bricks...

I'm feeding everything using a mix of pee and comfrey tea , I'm hoping this will result in a fairly balanced fertiliser as the two have quite...

Is there a way to access past reviews of garden tools that have appeared in the magazine on line?

Got a wee e-mail about this book today. Looks OK from the preview & only £6.99!

Think I will order it - mind with cookbooks I need little...

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

-- John Adams...

Just opened an e-mail from KG Zeddit folk with a recipe for this. It looked so colourful & I thought actually it could be a good way to preserve...

Bought a packet of yellow Patty pan Squash at Lidl's. Was reading the instructions re: planting & found this gem. 'The ideal place for these...

I had to stop by a field on the way home yesterday to watch the lambs! Utterly captivating. There are ewes along the private lane here but no lambs...

Well, just after my community garden I closed due to lack of funding, my grow wild pack with seeds ect arrives...
Typical lol. On the plus, I now...

So, as previously promised, here it is, I'm starting my photo project in my garden. Here I'll be documenting my garden through photos, Some will be...

I need to re-stain / put a fresh coat of wood preserver on a fully boarded fence but some panels seem to have been affected by a light mossy coating...

Many of the digital max-min thermometers look almost the same but they don't seem to work for very long, the reset button fails on the ones I've had....

If you're anything like me, you occasionally stumble across a line in a seed catalogue that makes you chuckle... well heres a couple of mine (please...

I'm thinking about how I can keep my crops suitably watered in my new polytunnel and it I'm wondering if there is any mileage in planting through...

Since the TKG changed I can no longer reach the Home Page from the Forum page. Any ideas why?

Beryl.

Hi everyone, down on our allotment we are getting small thin worms eating into all our greens mainly cabbage and sprouts , for all intense and...

Just dug up the chrysanthemum from the plot. On preparing them for the winter, I notice the are shooting like hell from the base. As I normally...

Just made a huge veggie soup with all our veggies from our allotment, added red lentils and harissa paste. Then made four dishes of cooked veggies...

It was a bit of a surprise to find a strawberry perfectly ripe today. I thought it was a fluke as it was on an escaped plant that found it's way into...

We have had a lot of tomatoes of various sizes, the big ones were tasteless, for some unknown reason. So over the last two days I have been roasting...

After losing a malus, a few years ago, and last year a fuchsia (confirmed as HF by the RHS) I now see my beautiful magnolia stellata is going the...

Oops I made this chutney I printed off the internet. I read the recipe and then forgot to put four onions into the pan :oops: or the cinnamon stick....

Are there any bokashi enthusiasts on the forum? Since moving to this smaller garden 5 years ago, I've been using the bokashi system to compost...

this year I have been experimenting with quadgrow planters and watering kits. I have 6 planters(four pots each) very pleased with them. watering the...

hi. Managed to let my last remaining" Ellams Early Dwarf " cabbage run to seed. Should one or two of you like a pinch [and I do mean...

I know the Welsh are renowned for their love of music so this particularly acknowledges our Welsh colleagues on this forum. I've just been listening...

green lemon taste very refreshing . just make juice with it and add ice and a little sugar . done!! delicious and very healthy .
just use two or...

Good afternoon all,

I've got some seeds (Approx 2200!) of Holy Basil... I think my garden will only fit a few plants - I know you're meant to re-sow...