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Isle of Wight gardeners struggling with tomato blight have sent numerous messages to gardening writer Richard.
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Isle of Wight gardeners struggling with tomato blight have sent numerous messages to gardening writer Richard.
Now is the time to fill gaps in a vegetable patch with quick-germinating Asian vegetables and hardy lettuces
Credit: Andrew Crowley Potatoes Chit your potatoes now. Place them in a single layer somewhere cool, light and frost-free where they can start to sprout, and so hopefully start growing more quickly once they are planted. Peaches Peaches start to flower when there are few pollinators around to finish the job. Step in to the breach with a soft paintbrush and “paint” the insides of each flower, spreading the pollen. Make a note to plant crocuses and other early flowerers as further lures. Meadow Consider planting a stretch of meadow. Pictorial Meadows (pictorialmeadows.co.uk) mixes se...