Once again the debate between Realistic Organic and Legal Organic. I believe the Legal Organic movement is doing a serious disservice to the health of the nation. We need a classification based on real safety rather than unproved theory. The objective should be food that is free of residues from pes...

Has anybody tried using a fish tank light, or even a complete fish tank, for a propagator?

How do you get the earliest tomatoes? I’m always disappointed with how slowly my first tomatoes ripen, it would be great to have some with the early summer weather in June. Unfortunately I don’t record first tomato in my diary so I can’t quote dates. I have a heated propagator, a small heated greenh...

Towards the end of the life of the old forum I asked a question about cloche hoops - it may have gone unnoticed or perhaps nobody knew an answer. I have some old galvanised cloche hoops that are not tubular but rather a sort of m section with wire clips that hold the polythene in the top of the m - ...

But if we all revolt and only use General Chatter doesn't it become the old format?