just had agreat weekend planting loads of veg in my little paradise.this is my second year gardening so still learning,so as i finished just went to put my sweetcorn in when i heard a crashing sound.turned round to see my little paradise was a bomb sight next doors tree just fell over my garden i could have cried , so got a lot of clearing up to get on with what a day
Reply to eileen: It's quite tricky knowing exactly when carrots are ready to harvest, and much depends on when you sowed them and what type of carrot you are growing. It goes without saying that small salad carrots can be harvested much earlier than large maincrop ones. Try gently brushing soil away from around the neck of one or two carrots to determine how thick they have grown. If large enough then dig away, but if still quite small put teh soil back and leave longer.
Reply to smudge: Yes, you can grow potatoes in a bag. They really only need to go indoors when conditions are cool – either early or late in the year – otherwise they're happy outside. Did you have a particular reason for growing under glass?
Remember that potatoes can still be planted in bags soon to produce a crop late in the year. Check the mail-order suppliers for Second Cropping Potatoes like Carlingford. Delivery of these seed potatoes will be from June.
answer to the gardener with the tiny white mites, these sound like white fly, if they were vine weeval the parent would be brownish/black and the grubs would be under the plant eating the roots these must be dug out and destroyed, I give them to the robins that frequent my garden, they love them cnn't get to them themselves as they are actually under the plant.
we have had really harsh winds that seen to tunnel thro garden to woodland, ferns suffering wind burn, sad sight,in front of house we have c,acre paddoc we are willing to sacrifice sone of this to wind break, wondering if betula jacqumonti planted in same hole and grouped would help, love multi stemmed birch, look forward to your comments
Despite being in the greenhouse my tomato and veg seedlings this year seem to have just seized up with vitually no growth in the last few weeks. I am in the West of Scotland where the weather has been very wet and very cooleven more so than normal. Has anyone else found the same or it me!
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It goes without saying that small salad carrots can be harvested much earlier than large maincrop ones.
Try gently brushing soil away from around the neck of one or two carrots to determine how thick they have grown. If large enough then dig away, but if still quite small put teh soil back and leave longer.
Remember that potatoes can still be planted in bags soon to produce a crop late in the year. Check the mail-order suppliers for Second Cropping Potatoes like Carlingford. Delivery of these seed potatoes will be from June.