Hello everyone. Great info from all. I've grown a few fruits & veg in my garden in the last couple of years...tomatoes, green beans,chillies, blueberries, strawberries & plums. This year I'm trying Butternut Squash & Pumpkin 'Mars' too. Having grown from seed they're starting off well. But i do hear that they grow quite big! Any ideas on what to grow them in & how to support them please??
hi everyone im a begginer gardener and this year im growing tomatoes and strawberries im doing quite well and really enjoying it any advice for growing these would be really apreciated.
Leek Moth, what can I use to get ride of it, It devastated my leeks last year, got it on Garlic Shallots Onions and Leeks this year, hope someone has a solution to this problem.
I did follow the procedures suggested in the "how to plant an apple tree" video, planting the tree during late autumn last year. However, despite watering the ground around tree many times during periods of dry weather; after the initial period of growth during this years spring and summer the leaves turned brown and the tree now resembles a dead plant. Why has this happened and what should I do to revive the tree?
I have a very good display of sweetpeas this year, also a bounty crop of courgettes, but I have only harvested one small broccolli head, the caterpillers are enjoying the taste of my broccolli plants before they produce any more heads.
I have just managed to get a small plot in a gardeners club, its small but its all I need for the moment. Problem is I dont know what to grow, I want to grow vegtables but can you tell me what ones I can grow now that I will be able to crop over the winter. I live in Scotland. Thank you
I'm new to veg gardening and have just taken on a jungle of an allotment and trying to weed out long grass thistle and nettle roots from well beneath the soil but struggling to get everything, (no car to pick up a rotovator so down to grafting ! and want to grow organically so chemicals are out of the question) have put down barrier fabric but want to sow green manure over winter. Can anyone tell me if it's more likely that the weeds will have grown up by the time the clover etc is big enough to overshadow them ? Is it possible to sow my manure then cover with the barrier over until the seeds start to sprout and then take the sheet off so they get a chance to grow before the weeds are unmanageable ? Please help anyone !!
On my new allotment, I have inherited several "berry bushes" The raspberries are going mad but have produced some lovely fruit, I have discovered a black currant bush which is very nice, but there is a bush which I'm unsure of, the leaves are "wobbly" like an oak leaf and it has thorns, It looks healthy and seeing it is with the black current I'm sure It's a fruit. It's probably obvious to you all, but what berry has thorns? any ideas?
So many Questions! I am new to this web discussion lark, but not entirely new to Allotment gardening.
John 14 did you get any advice? Its tricky, but you could try to scrape a little bark off one of the branches (just a little bit) if it's green then its alive and new leves etc should appear in spring. Try liquid seaweed feed (in sping) this can stimulate stronger more drought resitant growth. If you ever plant another tree I cant recomend RootGrow or any equivalent highly enough. This gives a symbiotic fungal growth which acts like a secondary root sytem which helps trees and shubs take up water & nutrients. It's quite new to home gardeners & not cheap but well worth it.
Chelle 2 Another difficult one. By now you may know the answer, if the green manure did not smother the weeds then I would cover the area with Black plastic or membrane now & leave it all winter. In spring when you uncover there should be no top growth. Dig out all perennial weeds you can but be prepared for re-growth, it will take time but it will work. A rotovator would just chop up the roots & spread them & unless you can keep rotovating as soon as they re-appear. Potatoes traditionally help clear ground as you cultivate at least 4 times in season, (dig to prepare, dig to plant, earth up, Dig to harvest). There are other methods such as cover with cardboard, mulch with very thick layer of compost & grow into that (by implication you need a lot of compost). Try some of each! Good luck.
This is my 2nd year as a garden fruit and veg grower, last year I had good results with my caulies, and yet this year has been very poor, I've been lucky to even get them bigger than 1 florrette probably due to the weather I think? My carrots grew very stubby and had no length to them, and my onions and leeks just don't seem to be growing at all. last year I had a good crop of beetroots and this year I had really good success with potatoes.So it seems to be hit and miss with me. I'm going to try growing garlic next year, so hopefully I'll have luck with them. I've decided that maybe growing 'greens' is not my forte, as I just seem to feed the catrepillers. (ended up with cabbages full of holes) I'm learning all the time so any ideas would be helpful on what best to grow.
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Hello everyone. Great info from all. I've grown a few fruits & veg in my garden in the last couple of years...tomatoes, green beans,chillies, blueberries, strawberries & plums. This year I'm trying Butternut Squash & Pumpkin 'Mars' too. Having grown from seed they're starting off well. But i do hear that they grow quite big! Any ideas on what to grow them in & how to support them please??
hi everyone im a begginer gardener and this year im growing tomatoes and strawberries im doing quite well and really enjoying it any advice for growing these would be really apreciated.
Cheers Barrie...
I did follow the procedures suggested in the "how to plant an apple tree" video, planting the tree during late autumn last year. However, despite watering the ground around tree many times during periods of dry weather; after the initial period of growth during this years spring and summer the leaves turned brown and the tree now resembles a dead plant. Why has this happened and what should I do to revive the tree?
John B (21st August 2012)
Hello all,
I have a very good display of sweetpeas this year, also a bounty crop of courgettes, but I have only harvested one small broccolli head, the caterpillers are enjoying the taste of my broccolli plants before they produce any more heads.
John B Aug 2012
I have just managed to get a small plot in a gardeners club, its small but its all I need for the moment. Problem is I dont know what to grow, I want to grow vegtables but can you tell me what ones I can grow now that I will be able to crop over the winter. I live in Scotland. Thank you
I'm new to veg gardening and have just taken on a jungle of an allotment and trying to weed out long grass thistle and nettle roots from well beneath the soil but struggling to get everything, (no car to pick up a rotovator so down to grafting ! and want to grow organically so chemicals are out of the question) have put down barrier fabric but want to sow green manure over winter. Can anyone tell me if it's more likely that the weeds will have grown up by the time the clover etc is big enough to overshadow them ? Is it possible to sow my manure then cover with the barrier over until the seeds start to sprout and then take the sheet off so they get a chance to grow before the weeds are unmanageable ? Please help anyone !!
On my new allotment, I have inherited several "berry bushes" The raspberries are going mad but have produced some lovely fruit, I have discovered a black currant bush which is very nice, but there is a bush which I'm unsure of, the leaves are "wobbly" like an oak leaf and it has thorns, It looks healthy and seeing it is with the black current I'm sure It's a fruit. It's probably obvious to you all, but what berry has thorns? any ideas?
Nene
So many Questions! I am new to this web discussion lark, but not entirely new to Allotment gardening.
John 14 did you get any advice? Its tricky, but you could try to scrape a little bark off one of the branches (just a little bit) if it's green then its alive and new leves etc should appear in spring. Try liquid seaweed feed (in sping) this can stimulate stronger more drought resitant growth. If you ever plant another tree I cant recomend RootGrow or any equivalent highly enough. This gives a symbiotic fungal growth which acts like a secondary root sytem which helps trees and shubs take up water & nutrients. It's quite new to home gardeners & not cheap but well worth it.
Chelle 2 Another difficult one. By now you may know the answer, if the green manure did not smother the weeds then I would cover the area with Black plastic or membrane now & leave it all winter. In spring when you uncover there should be no top growth. Dig out all perennial weeds you can but be prepared for re-growth, it will take time but it will work. A rotovator would just chop up the roots & spread them & unless you can keep rotovating as soon as they re-appear. Potatoes traditionally help clear ground as you cultivate at least 4 times in season, (dig to prepare, dig to plant, earth up, Dig to harvest). There are other methods such as cover with cardboard, mulch with very thick layer of compost & grow into that (by implication you need a lot of compost). Try some of each! Good luck.
Nene- Gooseberry!
Iain R
This is my 2nd year as a garden fruit and veg grower, last year I had good results with my caulies, and yet this year has been very poor, I've been lucky to even get them bigger than 1 florrette
probably due to the weather I think? My carrots grew very stubby and had no length to them, and my onions and leeks just don't seem to be growing at all. last year I had a good crop of beetroots and this year I had really good success with potatoes.So it seems to be hit and miss with me. I'm going to try growing garlic next year, so hopefully I'll have luck with them. I've decided that maybe growing 'greens' is not my forte, as I just seem to feed the catrepillers. (ended up with cabbages full of holes) I'm learning all the time so any ideas would be helpful on what best to grow.