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[Laura Hillier]

Hi Everyone,

What are your best gardening tips? Is there one piece of advice you couldn't do without when it comes to getting the most from your crops?

For your chance to get your tip published in the magazine and win a £40 voucher, just send your tip across to me at laura.hillier@aceville.co.uk

Laura

[Dorothy rouse]

Protect your crops with the appropriate netting!


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[Aberdeenplotter]

The best piece of advice I can give to anyone is just not to become despondent if something goes wrong with whatever you are growing. One of my favourite sayings is 'there is always next year' . If something does go wrong and you don't know what, ask someone with experience (there are loads of experts on this forum and on local allotments) and try again.

Now for my aid to growing onions without having them spoiled by the maggot of the onion fly. ---- Interplant with French marigolds. I used the varieties Orange Boy and Colossus this year and had a super crop of clean undamaged onions for the kitchen as well as a magnificent floral display.

[hamsterhead]

Learn from your mistakes and experience. Learn from the experienced allotmenteers and forum members. Remember, the only silly and stupid question is the one thats not asked!

[Mr Bones]

Sprinkle ground egg shell into the hole when planting tomatoes to keep blossom end rot away.

For superb brassicas, to every planting hole add a small handful each of fish blood and bone, rotted farmyard manure and garden lime. (Don't do this for swede or turnip though or they're likely to develop brown heart).

[Bigmallly]

Hi Everyone,just send your tip across to me at laura.hillier@aceville.co.uk
Laura

The best tip I can give is for everyone to read the OP..................

[Mr Bones]

The best tip I can give is for everyone to read the OP..................

Emailed Laura but posted too to avoid her receiving loads of the same tips

[VirginVegGrower]

When you plant your brassicas, use yearly rotation and pop a one inch stalk of rhubarb plus a sprinkling of lime in your planting hole. Touch wood but I've avoided the dreaded club root.


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[Laura Hillier]

Hi Everyone,

Keep your tips coming in for your chance to appear in the mag and win some great gardening vouchers

Laura

[Scarlet]

Successional sowing is a must especially with lettuce. I can eat it all through summer but you can end up with a glut and then nothing. Sow a pinch of seeds in a tray every fortnight.

[darcyvuqua]

Write everything down!
You can then cross reference everything the year after ie planting to early, to close, to late and so on.

It's been a massive learning curve from day one at the allotment and I'm still learning!

[Scarlet]

The best tip I can give is for everyone to read the OP..................

Oops! .

[ancee]

My computer can be a bit temperamental when sending email through 'windows'. Just wondering if you got my tip Laura?

[Laura Hillier]

Hi ancee,

I'm afraid I didn't receive your tip - but if you are having problems sending via email it is fine to either pop it on here, or send it in a DM

Thanks!

Laura

[Maddiesaur]

As a follow-on from my Allotments on a budget thread, I would advise people not to be put off by what seems to be a huge initial financial outlay. Gardening and growing does NOT have to be expensive! So far this year (my FIRST year) I have spent £10 on my yearly allotment fees, £3 on compost, £4 on seeds. That is it, my total cost. I'm glad I pursued my want to grow, this time last year I had thought about it but the thought of spending lots of money that I didn't have put me off. I have a seriously low budget to live on and so finding cheap alternatives has been fantastic.

Some lovely Grapes sent me some seeds in the post, which helped a lot. I asked friends and relatives to save toilet roll tubes and milk cartons.. You don't need to be rich to get set up.