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Forget The Gym And Get Gardening

Fun piece from today's Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2323825/Forget-gym-gardening-Daily-chore-burn-19-000-calories-y

Started by Southbourne Gardens

0 May 13

shady corners

If any of you have a shady corner, preferably with good rich soil I'd recommend growing wild garlic (Ramsons). When we moved over here I di…

Started by Colin Robinson

3 May 13
Reply by Gareth Howell

Plastic coating for farm land?

More and more plastic covering for fieldas once the crop has been sown (or at the same time) is to be seen round here in Dorset. It seems t…

Started by Gareth Howell

8 May 11
Reply by Gareth Howell

Risk of Legionnaires in bagged compost??

Hi everyone Happy spring at last!  We have a lovely sunny afternoon here so I was going to pot on my tomatoes. I have a bag of New Horizo…

Started by Donna C

6 May 8
Reply by Gareth Howell

What to do about couch grass?!

There's a lovely big patch of couch grass at the end of my allotment, that belongs to my plot neighbour. They haven't done a thing with it,…

Started by Zoe J

3 May 8
Reply by Flighty

William James

A catalogue just came through my postbox - from William James, www.wmjames.co.uk suppliers of crop-protection netting,  fruit cages, polytu…

Started by Mark Willis

3 May 7
Reply by pete

signs of life in the potato patch

I planted my potatoes out then we had snow and a drift settled and refused to go - I thought all the potatoes would be frozen and lost.  I…

Started by elaine rickett

7 May 6
Reply by David Ford

Which cherry to plump for?

I've toyed with buying a cherry tree for years and today spotted 3 varieties in Lidl - Varikse Zwarte, Sunburst and Van. I've googled what…

Started by Lynn Howarth

12 May 4
Reply by Gareth Howell

Garlic and onion bed

My ambitions in life are very simple, although one TV/radio presenter passed me off once as wanting to be Prime minister. Defamatory to the…

Started by Gareth Howell

10 May 3
Reply by Gareth Howell

Bunty's Blog new organic gardening resource

Bunty and I have been working on this new organic gardening resource for the last few years, I hope that everyone here will find it useful…

Started by Alfie Hart

0 Apr 30

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