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A friend of mine said that her father slides a piece of copper wire through the base of the stem of plats susceptible to blight and it works in the same way as a copper spray but is less messy and extravagant in the amount of copper used. Anyone have any actual experience of using this method? A lo...

Thanks for all the advice everyone.

I am pleased to announce that after putting my sweet potatoes in light sand and sticking them in the greenhouse that I have sprouts

Thanks for the info Richard, very helpful. Can I ask you more questions? Did you use the whole potato to get shoots? Do they shoot like a normal potato? Do I immerse the whole thing in light compost? Would a light sand work? I've tried googling and there's not much info, except to put them in a jar ...

Anyone tried and succeeded? Any tips?

I want to grow from a sweet potato, how do I get it to sprout?

Last time I tried growing SPs I bought a vine, dug it in and waited, and waited, and waited for the potatoes to sprout from the beautiful purple flowers on the vine *doh*

Salut Absfairy When you say squash, you're talking butternut squash? Yes? Or any type of squash, gourd, potimarron etc.?

Thanks for the advice everyone very helpful.

Hi Kitty, oui c'est moi Just had a couple of thoughts on your chilli seeds. On my chilli seed packets it normally says 100 days, whether that's a 100 days from seed to chilli or for a green shoot I'm not sure but they do take a while to show. Other thought was, how about wrapping your propagator wit...

Murky bouquets MW.

Hello everyone, nooby on board, be gentle with me. Two questions so I thought I'd lump them together. Firstly, a friend gave me several sacks of horse manure about 6 months ago, after googling and finding out that I had to build another composter to heat it to a certain temperature blah blah blah, I...

Brit living in France and enjoying the sunshine.

Gardening since I was 4 years old, believe me that's a long time. Been in France for 5 years now and loving it. I love growing veg and herbs, the more unusual the better.