Your garlic should be ready by mid June or early July. It's always hard to tell when it's ready to harvest so I usually dig up a bulb or two to see - green garlic is fab for roasting! Also my garlic nearly always ends up with a touch of rust on the leaves which makes me hurry up and get it out!
Denzilden don't worry! The spuds will all be fine I bet. I have bunged them all in, earlies and maincrops, within a week or so of each other before now whan I was really pushed for time due to a holiday and got good crops. The timings given are for a perfect world when jobs, holidays and domestic stuff don't encroach on your gardening time! Treat timings as a guideline in general - although I reckon you may have sown your carrots a bit early. They're really fussy about temperature when it comes to germination so I would resow now.
Are there potatoes I can plant now? Ive just emptied one bag of new potatoes (some a little small). Im growing in pots so any other things I can grow now tips please. I have onions, beetroot, sweetcorn, peas and mangetout on the go now.
the same thing has happened to me! first time ever, and I have been growing spuds for 10 years. do I need to take off the black leaves? only some of them are black. serves me right for watering them in the evening, i guess. just didn't get chance in the day, and was so excited about the first flowers coming...can someone answer about the pruning please...
I took over my allotment in Aug 2010,I have a space covered in black plastic all winter for potatoes. As soon as the grounds not frozen we (thats my husband, who has agreed to do the hard work) intend to dig some trenches put in well rotted horse manure then put the soil back. Is what we plan to do OK? I have got my potatoes, when should I start to chit? how long does it take? when do I plant potatoes in the north east. Help I am new Veg gardener
Hi new to all this aswell. Have i done wrong? i put all my spuds in at the same time.Should i have waited a few weeks between earlys,seconds and main?.Carrots been in a month but nothing showing yet.HELP!!
I have ordered my potatoes from my supplier, kept them in a dark cool place.This morning I have taken them from their resting place and find that they have chitted long pale green shoots. Can I rectify this in anyway. Pat
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Also my garlic nearly always ends up with a touch of rust on the leaves which makes me hurry up and get it out!
As soon as the grounds not frozen we (thats my husband, who has agreed to do the hard work) intend to dig some trenches put in well rotted horse manure then put the soil back.
Is what we plan to do OK?
I have got my potatoes, when should I start to chit? how long does it take? when do I plant potatoes in the north east.
Help I am new Veg gardener
i am trying to work out when to put my spuds in. when do first earlys go in and maincrop/ second earlys etc not sure when to do them help
Pat