Talkback: Eastern European vegetable varieties

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  February 2010

  Russian tomatoes are becoming a hit in the US - Black Krim has a religious following.

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  February 2010

  You are right about the cold. I am english and live in Czech Republic. The temp. went below freezing here the second week in December and stayed that way until third week in Feb. We still have a good 8 inches of snow on the ground. Most plants will grow here but you have to start sowing much later. I have found looking in other peoples gardens is best, if it grows in their garden hopefully it will grow in mine.

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  February 2010

  Navrsi, that is cold!
  
  Pruning blackcurrants to a standard shape is not at all common, though I'm sure they look lovely. Some people prune at harvest time: in the summer take off a third of the older branches and cut them low in. Blackcurrants fruit on new wood and this will help with branch production. The following year take out another third and so on.

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  February 2011

  hi sue
  check the roots see if they r ok?
  if they r theres good chance there fine plants,place them in a warm window with a plastic bag over them.in a dish of water that should bring them round.
  good luck

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• Gardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147

  November 2011

  I have geraniums in a cold greenhouse covered in bubble-wrap but they look dead so should i throw them out or is there any chance they may recover thanks

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