Hi Primroes and PP, Saving your own pea seeds is probably the easiest of seeds to save. I select pods down the row, whilst growing, and tie some red wool to then and I then pick and use the others for eating and leave the row to die down naturally and when all the foliage is totally brown I pull up ...

Hi Primrose, You can sow Peas up to the end of the month and about a couple of weeks later and still get a perfectly good late crop. I am toying with doing just that as I have enought seed left over for a thirty foot row and next year all the seed will be new. At the latter part of the year they hav...

Hi PP.
I would suggest that the flowers mix is another way to say cross pollination and you would have to sow the progeny on to note the difference.

Hi Geoff,
Not sure that you are quite right about Poplar wood because I think you will find that Poplar wood is used to make matches. Of course there are several different Poplars and the wood of one might have flame resistent qualities and another the exact opposite.

Well I must be honest. I needed garlic for a recipe and the cupboard was bare so pulled the garlic slightly early out of desperation and by strict convention it is not quite ready for harvest but will be in about a week. For your delight Geoff it was sort of spring sown. The Frenchy Rose' garlic is ...

I started my garlic off by pre-germinating it in moist vermiculite in a sealed polyethylene bag filled th air and sealed placed in my airing cupboard in an Endeavour to induce a root show before planting out. This I achieved and I am about to harvest and pulled a sample tonight and the variety is Fr...

Hi PP,
Onions grown in this fashion are called scallions and they are very widely grown in the Netherlands and are simply called onions in the green.

Hi Primrose,
The more up to date name of Purple Toadflax is Linaria Purpurea and it is a perennial. It is not a native plant and it is a plant originally from Italy which is quite popular in herbaceous borders and gives good colour.

Hi Richard,
Is the fertilizer additive Fe or FE. Fe is iron but do not recognize FE.

Hi John,
It doesn't matter which straw you use and as we grow Barley I said Barley but I really meant just straw. Masses of grass can almost liquify and the straw helps to prevent this and a foul smelling mess.

Channel 4 later on no doubt taking the P155 out of it all.
I'm prepared to emigrate if it doesn't go my way.

Hmmmmmm!

Hi Primrose,
To regenerate an onion it would be better to use scaling as used in lily production. In the dim and distant past I experimented to simply see if it worked but never actually grew on as a crop. I stopped when I had produced the bulblets.

Over a considerably long gardening period I have found it best to be a tad late with sowing than a tad early and as PP says things sown later always catch up. Sown too soon in the year and you are likely to give yourself problems.

Hi Steve, With you last posting you seem to have entirely missed the point. Spring Onions are sown from seed not sets and other varieties is nobody's guess and everybody can cheat but you have got onions for salad early maybe but not those classified as salad onions. There is no difficulty cheating ...