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Hi Sarah,I'm a 'newby' to Butternut growing,trying it for the first time this year,as it's one of my favourite veg. I put three plants in a raised bed,and whilst they produced about eight fruitlets,only two of them amounted to anything. Mind you,I'm very pleased with the result overall,as the two su...

I've used them in soups and stews before from 'fresh',and they are fine.
I suppose that they should be equally as good from 'dried'.

Our 'Victoria' Plum tree was planted three years ago,and has produced a first, bumper crop of delicious fruit this year. However,I was a bit greedy,and didn't thin the fruit out. Unfortunately (and it's totally my own fault),the weight of fruit caused one of the main branches to split almost in half...

We grew Spag. Squash a couple of years back-it really is amazing stuff-people that I fed it to just coudn't believe I was spooning 'Spaghetti' out of a Squash!
As easy to grow as Pumpkins or Courgettes too

In the North East of England,these are known as 'Proggy mats' or 'Clippy mats'.
There's some fine examples in your pictures.

P.S. - Look what I've just found from a quick search-
http://www.4ormore.co.uk/projects/ragpic.htm

I agree with you Cheezy about the constant 'trailing' thing-but isn't this the way with most programmes these days? Same as when they 'trail' films at the cinema-you've already seen the best bits when you go! T.V and Film producers must think that we all have attention deficiency syndrome,but then a...

I've never had any trouble with Ants.True,I do see them running about the allotment,somewhat randomly,and one day when we were re-laying some paving,we uncovered an Ants' nest,and watched in wonder as the workers picked up the eggs and took them to safety,-but they have never done me any harm. So,it...

Parsnips ARE tricky-we have a grand total of THREE coming up.
Then again thats THREE more than last year!

Congrats Cheezy!
I got my first Toms off last night-3 'Ildi' yellow mini-plums,and a red 'Tumbling Tom' grown outside in a large pot.
We've got lots of other varieties at the green stage-I thing August is going to be Tomato month!

Coz the bloke on the plot next to us has HUGe cabbages and he said he manured then Limed.......... Never manure and Lime at the same time,because a chemical reaction occurs which robs the manure of it's Nitrogen content. I normally manure my intended Brassica bed in late autumn/early winter,then Li...

I don't know what it is,but we can almost guarantee that within a couple of days of planting out our runners,we get 'the wind from nowhere' that causes havoc!

I'm 'over the moon' with the yield that I've had so far off my first early Potatoes-I've given quite a few away to friends,and was rather chuffed yesterday when an old gardener,who used to run a smallholding (smallholding?-he had pigs,Turkeys and three hundred Chickens at one time!) described them a...

After writing my little bit yesterday,I went down to the 'Lotty,and decided that I couldn't wait until sunday to try the spuds! So I got digging with my hands in the bed,and soon unearthed enough spuds for four of us,for dinner. The 'Winston's had very thin skins that simply rubbed off,and creamy wh...

So far,we've had: Rhubarb - I gave loads of the stuff away! Broad Beans Mizuna (first time that I've grown it- recommended-it's HIGHLY prolific as 'cut and come again' salad). Rocket Land cress Overwintered Onions Asparagus (better than any shop bought stuff) Purple sprouting Broccolli Our 'winston'...