Most apple trees need companion pollinators that bloom at the same time. Why not try a different variety that does, or, if you do not have room, put a tub of crab apple blossom near your tree when it is flowering. Having a neighbour who keeps bees also helps a great deal or one with an apple tree that flowers when yours does. I am sure there is a lot you can do to get a good crop of apples, charlesmire. But isn't the blossom lovely in the spring? Good luck.
i have put tin foil behind my hanging basket of cherry tomatoes to reflect the sun around the plants and I already have a number of ripening tomatoes despite the lack of sunny days.
Please help. My husband and I both contracted 'Giardia Lamblia'. We water our vegetable with water from the cistern and our doctor suspects that this may be the cause. However, she says that we can continue eating our vegetables so long as we wash them properly. Is this the case even with cucumbers and gourgettes for example? We live in Italy and nobody seems to know for certain. Many thanks in advance
Everything is starting to grow at last! But I've come home this evening and something has eaten most of the red flowers on my runner beans:( just tiny green stalks left where the flowers used to be...french beans untouched and growing nicely.....any ideas what I'm dealing with? Not birds I don't think as have moggy that patrols the garden:) Hubby getting impatient for the beans to be on his dinnerplate too so hopefully some of you out there can solve this problem for me:)))
Is it safe to eat watercress growing in a garden pond? There is no runthrough of water but the plants have gone rampant and it seems such a waste to pull them out of the water and discard them. We have the usual things in the pond, fish, frogs other plants and natural creatures but no snails.Everything looks healthy.
susieblue; I think you will find it is the birds,sparrows in particular. We have the same problem with red flowered varieties. The flowers are often left strewn around on the floor so like crocuses it must be a particular bit of the flower that they are after. We have grown white flowered beans and they do not seem to be attacked so much.
When growing tomatoes outside plant a French Marigold at the base of each plant. This will keep at bay most of he known infections during the growing season.
That sounds a real success and I'm hungry just reading about it. I've had terrible trouble with tomatoes (cherry ones) this year as we haven't had the sun but I'll keep my fingers crossed all the same and hope that in a little while it will all be worth it. If all else fails (ie sweet corn, onions and carrots) I hope to get a good potato crop to satisfy my hunger.
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My husband and I both contracted 'Giardia Lamblia'. We water our vegetable with water from the cistern and our doctor suspects that this may be the cause. However, she says that we can continue eating our vegetables so long as we wash them properly. Is this the case even with cucumbers and gourgettes for example?
We live in Italy and nobody seems to know for certain.
Many thanks in advance
I think you will find it is the birds,sparrows in particular. We have the same problem with red flowered varieties. The flowers are often left strewn around on the floor so like crocuses it must be a particular bit of the flower that they are after. We have grown white flowered beans and they do not seem to be attacked so much.
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