Useful Advice on Various Gardening Topics
Updated 10th December 2020
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Managing Pest Control
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Vegetables for autumn planting and sowing
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Improving potting composts with Vermiculite, Perlite and Grit
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Lawn Care
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Green House and Vegetables by Ray Broughton
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New Nettle Tea
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Seed Potato Information
Variety
Tuber
Characteristics
Texture
Cooking
Qualities
Blight
Other
Comments
Lady Christl
First Early
AGM
Pale yellow skin and
flesh, oval, medium
sized tubers
Waxy / creamy
Boiling new
potato, good
flavour
Moderate
Ready to harvest
10-13 weeks after
planting. High
yield.
Charlotte
Second early
salad
Long yellow skin
with yellow flesh
Firm / waxy
Boiling salad
potato, good
taste
Moderate
A favourite
amongst EHS
members
Desiree
Early Main
Crop
Oval tubers with red
skin and firm pale
yellow flesh
Firm / flowery
Boiling, frying,
chipping, baking,
mashing roasting
Moderate
Heavy cropping.
Good draught
resistance.
Nicola
Salad
Second early
Long, waxy,
oval-shaped tubers,
light yellow flesh,
thin light brown skin
Nicola
Charlotte
Desiree
Waxy
Boiling.
Ideal for salads.
Excellent flavour
Fair
Resistant to scab
and eelworm.
Suitable for
patio growing.
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ou
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most
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you
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in
the
UK.
When
you've
selected
a
fruit
(apple,
pear
etc)
you
just
choose
your
variety
and
you're
presented
with
a
list
of
compatible
pollinators.
Many
gardeners
are
either
ignorant
of
the
importance
of
pollination
for
good
crops
or
think
it
a
dark,
confusing
art.
Well,
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problem
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them
use
it,
then
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a
welcome
we
are
also
offering
a
15%
discount
on
anything
they
choose
to
buy
from us.
Would this be of interest? If so, I can send over the discount code.
Kind regards,
Julien de Bosdari
Ashridge Trees
Grove Cross Barn, Castle Cary, Somerset, BA7 7NJ
Telephone: 01963 359444
Website:
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Pollination Checker Tool on the Web
Fertiliser Info Sheets
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Breed your own namatodes
This
can
also
apply
to
online
purchases
from
sites
which
are
not
part
of
the
Horticultural
Trades
Associations.
You
may
have
read
in
Gardening
magazines
or
the
daily
newspapers
about
XYLELLA
FASTIDISA.
THIS
IS
A
VIRULENT
BACTERIUM
WHICH
ATTACKS
PLANTS.
This
can
eventually
destroy
plants
and
could
run
through
gardens.
It
is
currently
present
in
parts
of
Italy
and
Spain,
it
is
carried
on
olive
trees,
cherries,
lavender,
rosemary
and
figs.
If
it
arrives
in
the
UK
it
is
a
threat
to
many
species.
When
you
purchase
plants
check
where
they
were
grown
and
try
to
patronise
the
many
local
nurseries which produce
their
own
stock
.
Suzanne Holroyd
Maxi Crop
BEWARE
WHEN
TEMPTED
TO
PURCHASE
PLANTS
WHEN OVERSEAS.
We
are
short
of
1
litre
bottles
to
distribute
Maxi
Crop.
Would
members
be
kind
enough
to
bring
their
own
1
litre
bottle
when
they
want
to
purchase
Maxi
Crop
or
if
they
are
no
longer
using
the
product
and
have
1
litre
bottles
in
their
sheds
perhaps
they
could
drop
them
into
the
hut
on
a Sunday between 10am and 12 noon.
Emsworth Horticultural Society
