This year Allium leaf minor has devastated the majority of onions on our Allotment site in Derbyshire. One day the onions were looking good, two days later they have all been devastated. Whether the wet weather has had an influence I do not know. I think I will have to dig them all up and put in the...

how do I do that please!

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I would like to think I may be smarter than my phone

Just seen this which will be of interest to all.

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Tracie

I sprinkled a load of rock dust at the start of the winter onto my raised beds, but I think I wasted my time.

I have added loads of organic matter over the years so I hope this will stand me in good stead this year, but it still is a concern.

I suppose with all of the rain we are experiencing all of the nutrients will have washed out of the soil.

Will it be a case of applying some sort of fertilizer or do we need to add other materials to boost the soil again.

Thanks

Tracie

Hi All, we self manage our site with a elected committee on behalf of the local parish Council. At the moment we have a significant problem with a collapsed land drain flooding several plots. From my understanding the Council put the land drains in when the site was earmarked for allotments. Does an...

The best form of advertising is yourself. Go to Primark for example and buy some cheap sweatshirts and get them printed up locally it is not expensive, then make sure you wear them everywhere you go. If you have a dark colour top then have large fluorescent print, make it easy to read. Visit vista p...

The problem I have is being right handed I wear the ends out of the fore finger and the middle finger.

I have a pile of left handed gloves which are fine but holes in the right handed gloves.

Tracie

Rats and Mice love peanut butter, mix some of the poison with this and they will eat it all. You can wrap the mix in cling film if you want to keep it dry this time of year, they will still eat it.

Tracie

Christmas Pie, a village in Surrey near Guildford

I also have too many tomato's and this is what I do. largest roasting tin you have, pile in all of your tomatoes, cutting the larger ones in half. Slice 4-5 cloves of garlic and add to the tomatoes, add large glug of olive oil and a good grind of sea salt, and good quantity of basil, stir and put in...

Hi All,

can anybody recommend a petrol leaf blower that is not too expensive!!.

Thanks

Tracie

Hi All,

any ideas on how to get rid of moss in a tarmac driveway. I have tried grass moss killer but it just came back again.

Many thanks

Tracie