no no no!!! don't dig it up, let it die and the ladybirds will overwinter in it, and eat your broad bean black fly next year....

I think they're seet peppers, they're the wrong shape for jalapenos.

Cauliflowers are notoriously dificult to grow, so dont despair :) One month of high summer weather followed by a month of cold put paid to a lot of stuff this year, but that's the way it goes sometimes. Last year I spent nearly every waking moment in the garden and the polytunnel, I was absolutely c...

yeah, but if there's a wrong tool for the job, i will do my level best to find it :)

the bottom leaves going grey and dusty is powdery mildew i think, not fatal, just take the leaves off. The same thing usually happens to courgette plants.

you won't know unless you find the variety on the net and check to see if it's f1 or not.
might as well give it a go though, I did with a variety called santa, tiny plum tomatoes, they came true year after year :)

I have a harris scraper i think it's called, does a very good job and non-brand blades are cheaper...
http://www.screwfix.com/p/heavy-duty-scraper/16530

not me, but i've read about the exploits of people who have. I managed to get one tiny 'apple' from a pink fir apple plant this year, so I'll try it next year. You get a respectable amount from a morrisons bucket, which you can then use as seed potatoes the next year. Apparently, they're a completel...

what you can do if you're not getting both flowers open at once, get a paintbrush or a soft brush, swish it inside the male one, put it in a bag, wait for the female one to open, swish it round the female one. It's worth a go....it's only a thought though, not a tried and tgested method :)

It is too late I'm afraid. You can try watering well, and feeding to see if it'll come back again. If you do that, and they do start showing a spurt, earth up around the bottom of them, they'll send out more roots for stability. Are there more than one plant there? Looks like two in the second pic.....

before and after pictures are fab to look at, they must give you a real boost. Well done :)

it could be rust, and i don't want to upset you, but it might well be. It's really small, I can't see any cobs on it, or a flowrr spike. When did you sow it?

Mo wrote:Is that the fruit/seed? like a tomato?.

but you can extract the seeds and use them to grow new potatoes next year

there's not much choice if you want to have brassicas. You either have to net them, or check every day for little white or yellow patches of eggs and squish them. You'll end up with nothing if you don't because caterpillars are ravenous little so-and-so's, they ate an entire [pre-netted] kale plant ...

if it's only black on white paper, print one, take it to your nearest photocopy shop, the more you get, the cheaper it is, and they'll re-size to fit 2 or 4 on an A4 sheet.