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Please can someone help, we have a lovely lot of brussel sprouts developing but one plant is covered in little grey bugs, looking on the internet I think they are cabbage aphids. Can anyone advise on ...

Thanks, I figured we had got it a bit wrong, will cut when needed. Definitely going to plan it all out better next year. Smile

Due to bad planning we have quite a few large stone head cabbages ready to eat. However we are worried they will get over ready and be wasted. Can they be stored at all? We also have some savoy cabbag ...

your flowers got pollinated. Smile

I had amazing success with the picking slugs from the cabbages, had one today and had no slug damage inside the head. Smile

female flowers have a small cucumber behind them just like courgettes.

Michael, just with reference to your comment of keeping only pest and disease free ones, a lot of our second earlies have scab (think it because it was only converted from grass last year) I think the ...

I dont know if this helps but I'm sure I was told you/read could use tights/stockings for storing onions in?

Thanks for that Michael, I was really worried I had lost them all just as they start flowering, when is the best time to water them and should I remove lower leaves to help improve circulation?

I think my tomatoes have blight, they are outdoors, tumbling tomato variety (decided to make my hanging baskets useful and pretty) They have started to look a bit wilted and some have black edges to s ...

Thanks sunnymount. Sounds like one is ready to harvest. Smile

Thanks, will look them up. Smile

Checked my cauliflowers again today and one of the heads is quite big, this may sound stupid but how do u know they are ready to harvest?

Thats great, thanks Michael. More food and less wastage is always a good thing. Smile

Very excited as our cauliflower are beginning to develop, I have broken leaves over the curd to protect it as I read in a book. What I am wondering though is they are huge plants with a lot of foliage ...

Thanks for the advice Simon J. Will look into it. Michael, we think we have got most of them out, is there any way to prevent them getting in? Some seem fine but worried about them suffering the same ...