i have 12 drawers for my seeds, almost one for each month except the busy months like march april and may there's more of them ;-) i also made a seed planner from my seed packets in excel and i can never remember the follow up (particularly with perennials) i scanned all my packets and printed them and put them in a photoalbum front and back, so i can alsway look them up, it's like a personal encyclopedia... i have sown my carrots and covered them with polythene, so hopefully they'll be ok, should be according to the packet :-p...i had cucmber in the greenhouse as well as courgettes and kiwanos but they didn't survavie the mild forsts from las week...blah...the rest of my seedlings are still at home except for broadbeans and mais they colour the allotment already..:-D here's to another season
my neighbour swears by mixing in turf ash to the soil before planting. can you tell me if this is ok before i plant my veg seeds please? he always has a lovely flower garden but what about veg patches? Thanks
I sowed my carrots mid April last year (autumn king) As soon as they were sown I fleeced the bed completely and left in on the whole time, only pulling it back to harvest as I needed. No carrot fly damage AT ALL yippeeeeee!! and the most wonderful, tasty, carrots I've eaten for years I'll be growing them this way in future.
hi all iam having trouble with my cabbage seedlings they keep dying on me the leaves go dry and fold under themseleves have tried different composts but it keeps happening any ideas
I am having the same problem growing cabbage. I tried using a propagator but that did not work, so I sowed some seeds out in the garden and only one came up.
Our local tip has compost going for free - does anyone have any experience or knowledge of the quality of this sort of 'free' compost? I was going to get some but not sure it's ok for growing veg and flowers in. Any info would be great as I'm just a novice starting off - thanks.
I have had an allotment since last year and on the whole had a successful season. This year I want to make a polytunnel to protect my strawberries. All the other allotmenteers on site seem to use blue pipe (water pipes I think) but when I priced them they were really expensive. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make cheap and cheerful polytunnels? Thanks.
I've done it again...planted seeds in my electric propogator. They sprout up, thin and weedy or the seed dissolves into a muddle of white threads. How do i use the thing to produce plants?
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i also made a seed planner from my seed packets in excel and i can never remember the follow up (particularly with perennials) i scanned all my packets and printed them and put them in a photoalbum front and back, so i can alsway look them up, it's like a personal encyclopedia...
i have sown my carrots and covered them with polythene, so hopefully they'll be ok, should be according to the packet :-p...i had cucmber in the greenhouse as well as courgettes and kiwanos but they didn't survavie the mild forsts from las week...blah...the rest of my seedlings are still at home except for broadbeans and mais they colour the allotment already..:-D here's to another season
iam having trouble with my cabbage seedlings they keep dying on me the leaves go dry and fold under themseleves have tried different composts but it keeps happening any ideas