Fruit and Vegetable Gardening

black spots on my tomato leaves

Just got back into gardening after many years of not bothering and grow my own tomato plants from seeds I probably put...

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posted by martin.godliman.2b70aa8

8 comments posted 18yrs posted by martin.godliman.2b70aa8

Sudden hail storm :-(

...wiped out my garden today. Tomatoes and peppers that I had grown from seed are totally destroyed. The storm was a co...

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posted by zxcvbob

7 comments posted 18yrs posted by zxcvbob

Tomato feeding

Hi. I have several tomato plants in the greenhouse, Gardeners Delight Shirley F1 and Striped Roman. My liquid tomato fo...

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posted by Dave.Whipp.2b661e6

3 comments posted 18yrs posted by Dave.Whipp.2b661e6

Difficulty germinating Licorice

There seems to be a shortage of suppliers at the moment (I was offered 3inch tall specimen for just under a fiver and t...

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posted by HJW.2b661e6

10 comments posted 18yrs posted by HJW.2b661e6

Pepper problem

Hi. Thanks in advance for your ideas. When I bought my pepper plants at the nursury the leaves where dark green. As soo...

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posted by hfh1

2 comments posted 18yrs posted by hfh1

Cheap Watering Can and Compost Sifter

Cheap watering "can" that works better than most store bought: Two gallon cat litter jugs with 1/8" holes drilled in li...

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posted by Charlie

7 comments posted 18yrs posted by Charlie

Weed control help !!

I have a major problem controlling this trouble weed on my backyard. I have sprayed the whole area with the liquid weed...

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posted by xyz

6 comments posted 18yrs posted by xyz

op seeds?

Does anyone know of a mail order source to buy a varieity of vegetable open pollinated seeds. I am wanting them for my '...

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posted by twstovall

11 comments posted 18yrs posted by twstovall

Broad Beans

Hi I am in my first year of having an allotment and things are goin reasonably well. However, despite being told that B...

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posted by mw80.2b467a6

1 comments posted 18yrs posted by mw80.2b467a6

Pesticides in produce

http://www.foodnews.org/walletguide.phpGives a (depressing) guide to percentage of pesticides in produce. Persephone

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posted by Persephone

3 comments posted 18yrs posted by Persephone

Are you suffering from heart burn

Anta-acid drugs are just common today in every home. According to some data more than 30% of people in US are suffering...

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posted by aatray06

11 comments posted 18yrs posted by aatray06

Anyone recommend some colourful garden trees?

Hi all, our house is right on the edge of a forest we have lots o lovely green trees but we'd like to add some trees of...

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posted by Freedom_Spark.2b21906

8 comments posted 18yrs posted by Freedom_Spark.2b21906

shallots and seed tops (could apply to onions)

My experience with the onion family is just chives. They all have beautiful lavendar seed tops. I'm trying to grow shal...

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posted by twstovall

0 comments posted 18yrs posted by twstovall

Gopher Update

That freaking gopher is doing so much damage. I filed the hole with water today to try and drown the sucker, water star...

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posted by no

7 comments posted 18yrs posted by no

How does one prepare broccoli for freezing ?

I pulled in a mess of broccoli tonight. I would like to freeze it. I read somewhere that you blanch it for 3-5 minutes,...

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posted by MrMe

4 comments posted 18yrs posted by MrMe