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How long until potatoes are ready?

I am going to try out potatoes in my garden for this first time this year and was just curious how long they take to grow from start to finish. Idealy I would like to get some Russets and gold...

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Romaine lettuce

Take an intact stem and put it in 1/2 inch of water and in the window sill. In 2 weeks you will see water and in 4 a whole head of lettuce

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most successful crop

For me it was tomatoes. What is the most successful crop you have grown? What tips can you give to others?

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Lettuces among the onions...

I've got lettuces that will need thinning out very soon. Would it be ok to transplant the thinnings to in between the onions and garlic in one of our raised beds? Not too much competition for the...

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Daft question about carrots

I have previously planted carrots from seed, but this year I got some seedlings from the PYO farm... now the daft question is... There is just one clump of carrot top showing in each cell... and there...

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Swiss Chard Salad.

Swiss chard is something I seem to be able to grow well, I think it's pretty easy, and the Bright Lights version with multicoloured stems is quite striking to look at. I've always cut the stems off and...

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Radish and carrot salad

I harvested our very first radishes yesterday (the first time I've grown them), and was looking for a salad to make with them. View attachment 3621 I found this:...

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Odd bean growth

I sowed some climbing beans in pots, and the first one to come up is a bit odd. It looks a bit like it's grown a root upwards, and some little rootlets have formed, but then died back. This morning I...

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Eating radish seed pods.

My boss was saying the other day, she likes to eat radish seed pods. I had no idea they were edible, but apparently they are a little like sugar snap peas, and each plant yields many pods, as opposed...

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Poorly Broad Bean

Over at our patch in a neighbour's garden I noticed that one of the broad bean plants had some leaves that were curled up. All the rest looked fine. I decided to be brutal and pull up the odd one, and...

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Regrow Tomato Plants from a Cutting

Great Idea. I didn't know you could do this. How to Regrow Tomato Plants by Michael Nolan on May 16, 2013 X Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates...

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Hardening Plants in a Makeshift Poly Tunnel

We have been growing our tomato plants on the inside window sill where they have been doing really well in margarine tubs. Arch decided it was time to get them outside into larger tubs but they needed...

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Broad bean tips.

I knew you are supposed to pinch out the tips of broad beans once the beans start to form, to put the energy into the beans (and deter black fly who are attracted to the tips). I was checking online....

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What's the most satisfying thing to harvest?

We were helping to harvest parsnips and beetroot today, and I was thinking how satisfying it is harvesting root veg, partly because you have that element of not knowing what you're going to get. When...

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Tomatoes Need trimming?

View attachment 3946 These get close to full sun all day. Looking alright. View attachment 3947 These 2 on other hand probably have lost the sun by 1 pm latest. In with them is a Nasturtium and quite a...

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Caterpillars on Onions

I have caterpillars eating my onions, small green/brown ones smooth they're not hairy. they seem to crawl up inside the hollow leaf and eat it from the inside. They've been picked off and I only found...

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Self Sufficient smugness!

I've got a lot of squirrelling genes, so one of the things I love about growing our own fruit and veg is when we have enough to store in some form. I've just shucked a pound of broad beans to freeze!...

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Carrot tops.

Down at the allotment yesterday, someone was thinning some carrots - tiny little roots, with loads of green tops. I asked if anyone knew if the tops were edible. No one knew, so I googled and found...

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We call him Alan

View attachment 4029 I remade the garden this year from a totally dead brown mud bath, foraged to death by the chickens. Already this year I've been eating home grown broad beans, plenty of fruity...

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Pumpkins

My need is desperate. I have finally after many years grown a pumpkin of reasonable size. Unfortunately it is only around 60% Orange and my good lady is intending to carve it up next week for...

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