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Slugs have been absolutely terrible this year... I have a polytunnel for early crops and everything apart from Shallots has been got at by slugs... been beer trapping for about 3 weeks now and yet still they come. the bastards have even started eating the leaves of my Onion sets. I planted a few...

Put them somewhere warm and you should get a result in 7-10 days, if nothing after 2 weeks I would re sow.

No hint of Asparagus up the plot today, I do have my first crop of Purple Sprouting Broccoli though :)

Will check my Asparagus in the morning, not checked yet.

Long before the current financial crisis we often had thefts at our site, they put security fencing up and barbed wire but still people would occasionally get in and steal stuff..One time the guy next to me had lifted his onions and had them drying in the sun and someone stole the whole 30lb of...

Worms are the sign that the compost is ready to use...they don't like it too hot so, lots of small Bloodworms is good.

Thanks dear.

Nice!

looking good !

I'm growing Gardeners Delight and I'm having no problem. It looks like a nutrient deficiency of some sort to me... Try Epsom Salts or a liquid seaweed feed alternately with tomato fertiliser and see what happens.. Here is my solitary Tomato plant in its Quadgrow in my greenhouse..

I see, that should keep the fudging pigeons off !

Yes, I use old Blackcurrant stems as support for Peas and as rustic row markers.....,, this year two used as row markers are now sprouting leaves and flowers !

They will probably take very well, did this accidently with a Blackcurrant bush when I trod on a low level branch and cracked it and left it pushed in to the topsoil inadvertently.... last Autumn I pruned my Blackcurrant bushes to get the old wood out and was going to dry the stems out and use...

Ours turn the water supply off over winter to prevent frost damage cracking the pipes.... normally back on by time of last frosts about late April.

I have it on good authority from an old boy that if your spuds get frosted, cut the affected shoots off just below the soil surface level, otherwise the frost damage can go all the way down to the tuber and kill it.

Put all the seed potatoes I had bought in about 3 weeks ago but have noticed that when I go to the supermarket lots of the " Baby Potato's" are in fact last years crop that has been stored. Had a bag of Charlottes that I bought 3 weeks ago go sprouting crazy so I'm going to put those in in the...

Pretty much perfect, the more you water the better but put plenty of compost and paper in and the rain alone will be enough to get a crop.... it should always be remembered that Runner Beans have somehow managed to keep reproducing without help from mankind.

If you sow the beans outside in a border or plot they will be fine, if you plant in growbags or pots that's when you will have the problem.

Poor start to the year for me, managed to get my Spuds, Shallots and Parsnips in but its been too wet and cold to do much else. Bought the Rick Stein book on Mexican cooking a month back and i'm inspired to grow some different chillies and Tomatillo's for the first time. Going to grow lots of...