Health & Outdoors How to ripen green tomatoes – ethylene borrowing 30th August 2019 In an ideal world we’d obviously like our tomatoes to ripen the best way, on…
Health & Outdoors Metaldehyde Slug Pellets Finally Banned, What Are The Alternatives? 21st December 2018 The UK government might not be doing a lot to impress anybody of late but…
Pests & Diseases Powdery Mildew Prevention for Pumpkins 23rd August 2018 As we approach the end of summer and move into autumn you should not be…
Pests & Diseases Does copper tape stop slugs and snails? Here’s the video evidence… 26th April 2018 It’s that time of year when slugs and snails creep out of the woodwork (quite…
Pests & Diseases You say tomato, I say ‘blight’, let’s call the whole thing off 17th August 2017 Each and every year I grow tomatoes and each and every year they get blight.…
Pests & Diseases Netting Brassicas using Build-a-Ball Connectors 21st June 2017 Rooks, pigeons and pheasants are a real nuisance at my allotment and given half the…
Pests & Diseases Snail Control Problems? Egg Shells NO, Brambles & Gypsum YES 24th May 2017 If I had a pound for each time I heard somebody recommend crushed egg shells…