I grew my first veg last year & was so inspired by the results & encouraging comments from my elderly French neighbours (who garden from birth to death), that I tripled the size of my veg patch for this year. I lost most of my lovely pink fir apple crop & all my tomatoes to blight, & the courgettes have been poor. I understand that the unusual weather has been to blame for these occurances, but can anyone please help with another problem I have? .
I was given a raspberry cane & a blackcurrant bush last year & planted them next to each other against a corrugated iron shed where they've grown big & bushy, but produced no fruit whatsoever. They receive full sun for the first half of the day and shade the second half. What should I do? Thanking you in anticipation.
I am a new gardener with an allotment.I would like to know how to store my potatoes,beens,carrots and onions red/white over the winter do I use sacks made of paper or sacking.I also moved a gooseberry bush in Feb and it appears to have died should I leave it to see what happens next year
I am a new gardener with an allotment.I would like to know how to store my carrots,swede,leeks over the winter do I use sacks made of paper or sacking box of sawdust or sand, plastic bag or newspaper,what about brocolli and red cabbage, ive got ooddles of it? thanks awaiting eagerly.
Tent pegs are useful for holding any sort of netting/fleece down. I need to know how to prune my raspberries,(I am new to this game) the leaves are begining to alter colour now, but still cropping heavily.
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I grew my first veg last year & was so inspired by the results & encouraging comments from my elderly French neighbours (who garden from birth to death), that I tripled the size of my veg patch for this year. I lost most of my lovely pink fir apple crop & all my tomatoes to blight, & the courgettes have been poor. I understand that the unusual weather has been to blame for these occurances, but can anyone please help with another problem I have? .
I was given a raspberry cane & a blackcurrant bush last year & planted them next to each other against a corrugated iron shed where they've grown big & bushy, but produced no fruit whatsoever. They receive full sun for the first half of the day and shade the second half. What should I do? Thanking you in anticipation.
Re Mare's Tail - I had lots of this growing - here's how I got rid of it:
Dig up as much as you can and any remaining that are not in close proximity to plants you want to keep - put 35ml to 5l of Weedol RootKill Plus.
Then - plant snowball turnips - the turnips excrete into the soil a suppressor for the mare's tail.
This year I've had a few mare's tail heads poke thorugh and that's it - more turnips at the ready!!!