if you could only grow one variety of french climbing bean would you grow blue lake or cobra or maybe something better again.i will hopefully selling them so i need a variety that produces good healthy strong plants,that will produce masses of tasty string less beans. your replies will hopefully hel...

hello Bren its a dieing art growing food to feed your family.growing vegetables is a necessity for us so nothing is wasted and making good veg stock from all the peelings except potato peelings. all the fruit jams we make are made from our own fruit bar the blackberry's .the so called credit crunch ...

i make chilly jam sweet chili sauce roast tomato sauce which has herbs onions and garlic when the sauce is to our liking we freeze it one portion per plastic bag. roast pepper sauce as above mixed black and red currant jam blueberries are frozen we put them on our porridge in the morning pumpkin sou...

hello everyone it the time of the year to collect seaweed that gets washed up on the strand/beach so if you live near the coast seaweed is a very good soil conditioner it also acts as a mulch to keep down weeds . i also use it to make home made seaweed liquid feed.ONLY PICK SEAWEED THAT GETS WASHED ...

thanks everyone

i have been to many agricultural shows etc in Munster south west ireland and have never seen or heard of a show for your vegetable etc.so suck it up and be happy there are a few shows in you locality that show vegetable.things could be worse as it is here

this might be a silly question but will vegetable seed from Italian varieties grow happily in south west ireland .will the constant rain be too much for them .

i have a peat soil so its very acid i dig a hole add some lime and then plant the brassicas .i might be wrong but my neighbour is gardening the same soil for years and his soil had club root disease,he calls it finger and toe disease.this is how he grows brassicas he just adds lime to the planting h...

the male flowers grow on a little stalk the female flowers have the flower on a swelling the swelling on a butternut squash looks like a small butternut squash.does this help

we always shoot one magpie then we hang it by its legs some where it is visible some where high up .it never fails to work .the same method works well for crows as well. so we don't need netting etc.if you don't have a gun i am sure a game keeper will supply you with one for free

best to use a quick growing variety like Cara or something similar

thanks for getting back i will try using a little paint brush

my butternut squash is doing my nut in its flowered i pollinated it the squashes all grew to a small pear size before they started to rot from the flowering end . i tried breaking the flower head from it but with no success. what am i doing wrong

i will be lifting my shallots next week i will dry them well before i store them . the first year i grew them i didn't dry them properly and stored them in onion bags i lost a lot of them as they rotted be sure to dry your properly first

hello cevenol jardin
just a short note to thank you for the lovely lettuce seed you sent me .How did you get on with the pepper seed baurn mine are fruiting well how are yours