My areas of difficulty or concern:
- Carrots - always get carrot fly!
- Brassicas - never get very good cauliflowers or get club root problems
- Pumpkins - never grow beyond a tennis ball and plants are too small
- Sweetcorn - success last year but more fluke I think
- Celery - love it but ahhhh nothing doing total fail each year, may try this year
- Fruit trees - planted new ones (Cherry, Pear and Apple) last year so pruning is a mystery!
Good sources of advice:
- BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/ (great pages of advice)
- RHS: http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/ (really good month by month guide)
- Got an iPhone - get the RHS APP (I unfortunately have a HTC) http://www.rhs.org.uk/News/RHS-Grow-Your-Own-iPhone-app
- Your blogging friends and the Twittersphere (a useful lot indeed) e.g. http://allotment65.blogspot.com/
2 comments:
I grow monsters squashes. Biggest last year weighed 7.3kg! I dont water them once they've been watered in for the first week, but the trick I've found that has worked is...dig a bigish hole. Fill with lots of compost/shredded paper/water the hole really well, at least 2 cans of water and let it soak all the way down. Plant plant, then water in from the top. Dont normally bother mulching around them, and then just let them get on with it. Once several sets of leaves are well formed, nip out the growing tip (if I remember) and that's it.
Awesome advice - will def do that!!!
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