Grow Your Own Magazine

The regular sowing of small amounts seems to have worked very well this year.

I staggered sowing/ planting of:
carrots
beetroot
potatoes
lettuce
spring onions
cabbages
cauliflowers
cucumbers

If I had more space I'd love to be able to produce more than one crop of sweetcorn in a year, but it means that we savour those we get even more.

Cutecumber

I've just been on another forum this morning. Home Page as in north east eco friendly people (aberdeenshire fab forum) Apparently Homebase made an error and was selling 6 by 8 wooden sheds for £30!!!!!!

WAS WAS WAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Several people managed to order them before Homebase became aware of their mistake, stopped but sold some at £69. The excitement!!! My Credit card did somersaults in anticipation but all were gone.....

To have bought a shed and...

Forget-me-Not

ecstatic, i actually have a decent sized watermelon on my plant. this is my first time growing any kind of melon and i am well chuffed. just hope it continues with my new baby melons that are appearing. i must admit i went a bit daft when pollinating it, i must have put about 10 male flowers to the female one!
Beginners luck i think!!

milly2306

I bought an arch months ago in Woolworths for £3.95, its light metal and its 8 foot high and its at the back of the garden with a rambling rose next to it which I hope to train up. Its a north facing wall though and it doesn't get much sun (its under the plum tree and against the wall). The rose (beginning with 'A') is supposed to be ok for north facing wall though. Dh and I did made it together on the lawn.
Everything is looking good and the honeysuckle is going a treat, no flowers though....

Marthaclematis

Has anyone noticed that bought in seed compost from large "Home & Garden" outlets is not as good as it used to be. For example once seeds germinate, dispite using damping of fluid. Plants die or rot off beneath soil level. Has anyone any ideas why this should be happening or have any sugestions to counter it

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