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I bought too many seed potatoes in my local garden centre. I assumed they'd be OK to eat, but it was suggested by a friend that maybe they'd be sprayed/treated in some way.
Can I grow potatoes in the same ground 2 years running? Have grown them successfully but usually skipped a year.
I work in a school garden. Because the children get holidays at the end of June, we try to sow the chitted seed potatoes by mid March at latest. This year Easter hols are very early so we probably need to sow next week. With the bouts of frost and cold....Is this going to affect the potatoes in the ground or will they just start growing in the soil when temperatures start rising. Ideally I would like to leave sowing them until until slightly later in March.....last year with late harsh frosts... I had to cover foliage as it appeared.
My box hedge which surrounds the vegetable patch has recently been infected with blight. i am treating it and hoping for the best. However I am wondering if it is safe to grow potatoes in this area. I realise the two blights are caused by different fungi but am concerned that it will increase the likelihood of blight in the potato crop. could you please advise?
I enclose a photo of rhubarb plants which are being eaten. I'm wondering what could be attacking them at this time of year and what remedy you would recommend. The variety is 'Timperly Early'. I have applied slug pellets to no avail.
I want to start a vegetable plot, my garden had 10ins of soil on top of hard compacted stones and yellow subsoil and poor drainage,i scraped off the soil with a digger and removed 12 ins deep of subsoil i put back the soil and then filled in with new topsoil i tested the new soil and found it was alkaline is there anything i can do to remedy or improve the soil for vegetable growing,the garden is 24 ft x 14 ft any help appreciated.
What can I start growing in my garden at this time of year as in fruit and veg?
What's likely cause? it occurred on the potatoes from just one plant. Plants either side are okay
I have a new raised veg bed this year that is producing very well. However I used railway sleepers at the front and sides of the bed without really thinking about the danger involved from wood preservative leaking into the soil. Do you know if the veg will be contaminated and what I could do to rectify this now?
I found wasps on my potato stalks today. They were on two different plants. They were grown from the fruit that formed on the stalks of sharpo axon is that l had growing last year. I was wondering what was the attraction. I have never seen it before.
can you grow new potatoes for Christmas?
I accidentally sprayed vinegar on my vegetable garden. I sprayed with the hose right away with water of course. What is the probability that my plants will die??
Something is munching my Brocolli plants both those bought as plants and those I have grown from seeds. Doesn't seem to be slugs, cant see any tiny eggs or caterpillars although there are small tracks on the reverse of larger leaves? Might it be Vine Weevel although there are lots of big bits from the edges of leaves as well as the middle? The photos below give you a better idea, some of the larger plants have had whole leaves devoured while others have survived attacks, my seedlings are coming on and it looks like they will be victims as well 🙁
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