Grow Your Own Magazine

A roll of duct ( sometimes called duck) tape is a useful thing to have stashed in your shed for emergency first aid on broken plants.

So long as the plant has not been completely severed in half a band aid of this sticky vinyl fabric tape might just save the plant from complete loss.

So far this year i have joined two snapped courgette plants back together with it and one tomato plant and all have gone on to grow as if nothing ever happened to them!

I also use it to tape plants onto supports as it does not cut into tender stems like string does, and is useful for wrapping around a stem to stop string chaffing or cutting into tomato branches when supporting fruit.

Excellent plant first aid and stocked by most hardware stores so its easy to get hold of.

Wren

My son was given a sunflower as a birthday party take home present. He loves it and it is now 4 ft tall all in a few months. At one point, a bird we presume, ripped off some of the leaves and dragged a huges great chunk of the stalk off it.

My quick thinking partner put celephone around it and said to our son it may die. We subsequently bought a few more sunflowers just in case but the original one is going strong and growing by the day.

The kids broke their garden goal set so I am thinking of using the plastic poles with the addition of some enviromesh or fleece as a polytunnel. It is fun to think of what you can recycle in the garden.

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I'm new to veggies, but trying !

Wren, I had visions of all these plants with bandages round them, surname is not Frankenstein by any chance?

Think she may be aka "Flowery Nightingale"!!

lol...

Desperate measures are needed when you have tended a plant to full size and girlie throwing means that the dogs ball end up in the tomato plants. Trying to stop the dog from going after his ball is like trying to steer a cannon ball in mid flight.

Wren