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Thanks all. I usually get them in Johnstown garden centre or newlands cross, the whites anyway are usually heat treated and i've never had a problem with them bolting thankfully, but the reds, not gon ...

never tried them, I usually get mine from seedaholic.com

sharon

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I made a silly mistake last year and forgot to note which varieties of onions I put where and now I can't remember which ones I don't want to do again this year. I planted setton, sturon, r ...

You've left it too long on the plant Nozebleed. Try and pick them before the curd starts to split. Its a flower and opens as time goes on, should still be edible, no harm in trying, although it could ...

harvested some first earlies, aran pilots, chard, some strawberries, literally a couple of small florets of broccoli from cabbage root fly damaged plants, couple of turnips, had to replant all the bro ...

Not sure other than their growing habit. After a while you should be able to tell. The tumblers will tend to have a lot of branching stems and will grow more 'bushy' the cordon should have one main th ...

I had the same problem this year, lost most my cauliflower and broccoli. Managed to get plants to replace the broccoli but can't get cauliflowers and I think its too late to re-sow. made sure I used ...

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planted out my outdoor girl tomatoes today on the allotment and himself says he'll give a hand, so told him to plant out the plants in the ground with about half a bag of compost mixed in. ...

Can anyone shed any light on this? Got 2 nice healthy blueberry bushes and planted them out on the allotment with loads of ericaceous compost since I know they like acidic soil and (thankfully) the so ...

Woohoo! gardening in full swing now! Over the weekend got the following done.

Dug and manured the cauliflower and broccoli beds and covered with weed suppressing membrane,

Planted out 15 Broad b ...

I use it on the allotment to grow transplants through. Just cut an x in the fabric and plant through it. Brilliant stuff, really helped with the weeding, don't know how we managed the first year or tw ...

busy, busy, busy over the weekend, got loads done.

got some chicken wire and got the rabbit fence built around the plot, planted onion sets, planted earlies, dug the carrot bed and sowed some carro ...

I'd definately net your brassicas if I were you, cauli, cabbage, kale, broccoli or the dreaded caterpillars will devastate them.

good luck

Last week began work on our new allotment, we've moved from our old one which was a 40 minute drive away to a new one 15 minutes walk away Very Happy

Marked out the beds and put mulch on the paths, manur ...

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Had a bit of a surprise down on the plot at the weekend Confused

In march/april we bought some plugs of calabrese since these did so well last year and we had broccoli for months in the freez ...