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Welcome @SusanneinHastings. Which Hastings might that be? We have a Hastings here in England but I’m guessing there might be one or two...

hello! I have just joined up after reading through this and the 2024 bean thread. I will be growing out a couple of beans too. It is...

The forest has finally opened up. The snow & ice has pretty much melted, it's dry enough to be out walking around. I don't think I've...

I’m beginning to understand why England is associated with pea growing and feel humbly grateful for our comparatively mild winters and...

It was particularly moving as she still cared enough about the beans and the seeds and your kind generosity to want to do something to...

We have frosts down to -8 but not often and not for days on end. I was assuming that by March peas would be able to survive your...

Peas are a cool weather crop though. They don’t like summer heat as they’re prone to mildew when it gets hot and dry. I grow them as an...

That is very odd. I’ve grown the wild tomato Solanum pimpinellifolium and it didn’t protest at all at being in a pot. . It’s difficult...

I completely agree! It’s difficult at many stages. Further down the line, for example, yesterday I was potting on tomatoes and in some...

Is the idea behind this that the roots develop more easily in the vermiculite so you get that little bush of sideways roots and not so...

Congratulations!🤩🤗

Thanks for sharing your experience. They’re entirely new to me. Until I read your observations last year, I didn’t know such varieties...

I’ve used the same kind of labels and found them to be both waterproof and sun proof, and in a few cases I’ve used them for a few years...

I started three of the four I had from you at the later end of my tomato starting period but within the same window, so they ended up...

Thanks for your explanation. I have to admit that my experience has more often been that I havebunderstood why certain crops aren’t...