Hi My guide on this is Sarah Raven her website is good on what to plant. I have sown and now planted out Nigella, Calendula, Cornflower, Euphorbia Oblongata, Burpleurum, Malope Trifia, Orlaya Wallflowers on order Sweet peas in cold frame with Foxgloves Never tried it before so who knows Best wishes ...

Hi All,
What good weather for a change!
I rad an article in independent mentioning hawthorn chutney. Any of you guys tried it? I have lots of berries I could use.
Best regards Penny

Hi All, I have ventured into my brassicas cages this afternoon and find them alight with white fly and a sort of dusting on the leaves. The plants though are growing well if a bit brittle. They are mostly brussels and psb because underplanting with cabbage was a really silly idea!!! Any suggestions?...

I have grown some outside that are not yet flowering I guess I could dig them up and put inside?
Penny

Hi We eat lots of green beans and having enjoyed them all summer I can't seem to face buying them in over winter. I am going to grow winter salads in some window boxes on my gravel bed in my unheated green house would it work for dwarf benas too? I thought maybe pongo? Your help as usual appreciated...

Great ideas thanks. I think I'll mix and mulch some and save some too for spring.
Penny

I have about 2/3rd of a compost bin's worth of last year's leaves rotted down from 2 bins originally. What is best to use it for? I have about another bin's worth of ordinary compost(household /allotment/coffee grains and shredded paper) well rotted now Should I mix the two together and spread as a ...

thanks but not straggly trunks then whippy new growth. Thanks for the inf though looks good. Regards
Penny

I could do with a windbreak too. I have some old hawthorn at the end of my plot and I was wondering about attempting some rudimentary training. What does the team think? Regards Penny

Hi, I am going to try moving my squashes,courgettes etc out of their growbags which they seem to hate (som-one insisted I have them when I had no more space!!). Also am going to try strawbery popcorn for fun and some phacelia for the bees. Who knows it's my first year so it's all an experiment! Penny

but now i am worried about the rain... Penny

hello everyone,
my shallots look ready to harvest we had one set's worth last night. Could they be ready?
What's best way to store - plait or onion bag?
Thanks in advance
Penny

some enterprising soul has broken our padlock driven half way up the road and tipped all his builders rubbish in the road... and I thought allotments were meant to relieve stress! Penny

PS My 6 month anniversary today. I am going to take some pickies.

I am using savona from the organic garden catalogue which is working reasonably well.
http://www.organiccatalog.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=61_181&products_id=550
Regards
Penny

I bought the Showa gloves at Chelsea they are outstanding. Many thnks for the suggestion. Regards Penny