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Perfectly natural. I have a large fig tree in my greenhouse that's about 15 years old and about 15 feet tall and it is now just about leafless. As it's a deciduous tree it loses it's leaves every year about this time, so nothing to worry about. It will grow new leaves fairly early in the year, proba...

I have had my polytunnel for 2 complete seasons now and I am still experimenting with what I can and can't grow in there. At the moment I have several winter lettuce doing very nicely as are the winter hardy spring onions, also have some broad beans (aquadulce) and peas (meteor) just coming up, whic...

I have to come clean here :lol: With all the "green" things I've done over the years, I have never ever made proper compost :( I've tried all sorts of bins from wooden ones to plastic ones and they all end up the same .... wet smelly gunge, not dissimilar in smell and texture to month old ...

Glad we paid ours of ages ago ... I am confused by this cut ... Yeah, me too. I know I'm not the sharpest tool in the box when it comes to the financial sector, but I thought that banks and building societies got their money from investors and lent it back out again to borrowers, getting their cut ...

No butternuts though, and €7.00 P&P flat charge is way too much for a few packets of seed. :cussing: I really would take a look at Nicky's Nurseries in my post above. I have had veg seeds from them for a couple of years now, no problems with germination, no problems with export orders and a see...

The 5th time I read this, I finally saw the confusion I had caused! Not too bright, me! Anyway, when I said: Is there a reason I shouldn't grow my raspberries and plant something like black~, logan~ or tayberries to grow above them? What I meant (and this will suddenly make a bit more sense, hopefu...

Probably a bit late for this year, but tomato leaves make a pale lemon colour.

Millymollymandy wrote:That's pretty much what I do but what on earth is the Vit C for?

It's to stop scurvy, which you appear to need scratching your head like that

On a recent visit to the UK, I actually spotted ready made mashed potato in the chiller cabinet. But there's more ... right next to the potatoes were ready made omelets. I thought Aunt Bessie's frozen yorkshire puddings and frozen roast potatoes were the height (depth) of laziness, but you live and ...

Choose what you want in the colourful seed catalogs from T&M, Dobies, Suttons etc, then take a look at Nickys Seeds at ... http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/veg.htm
They (she) has most varieties at much better prices, and they (she) posts abroad too.

StripyPixieSocks wrote:(always throwing a couple of ice cubes on the bottom of the oven for extra 'oven spring' and it makes a lovely crust)

I have never heard of this trick, does it work better than a pan of hot water (steam) ?
I will have to look for the ice cube tray and give it a go.

sorry to butt in but do the shoots also have fruit? Yes they do, they are very suitable for replacement plants or if you want to start another row. You dig them up with a piece of root attached (in the winter) and away you go. If you leave them where they are though, you will end up with a jungle ....

Hmm, not too sure I would want rhubarb growing underneath, or in amongst the roots of raspberries, or even within about 6 feet of raspberries. Raspberries tend to throw up lots of shoots up to several feet away from the row. If you don't stop them they will soon make a raspberry thicket, and as rhub...

Can't see any reason why not, although it might be a pain to keep them trained and separate. Also summer fruiting raspberries and loganberries both ripen about the same time and look very similar, except red (unripe) loganberries are VERY sour, which could make for interesting fresh fruit salads :pu...

In the news today. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... ables.html
With all the problems in the world this is well overdue.