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June 21, 2022

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Help with potatoes please.

September 23, 2022

Hi there! Very amateur gardener here looking for some advice about potatoes.I planted some main crop potatoes in late May. The plants seem to have grown really well through the summer. Flowers have bloomed, died off and bloomed again.I read that I should cut down the foliage once it starts to yellow and die back, and harvest a weeks or so later.So I’m 4 months in and the plants look as healthy as ever. Do I carry on waiting? Or cut back based on the timeframe?

How do I rescue these cucumbers?

April 28, 2023

Hi folks,I've moved my cucumber plants into the greenhouse when they outgrew their pots, and they've been trying to commit suicide ever since. They've started to droop and look like they're dying. I'm not sure what to do to help them. I've tried adding some fertilizer (earthworm poo), some long-term fertilizer (horn shavings), adding more water, nothing seems to help them. The weather hasn't been great, but I do have heating in the greenouse which turns on in case it drops below 1 degree. As far as I know the night temps haven't fallen below 3. The plants are in a raised bed, inside the greenhouse, the top soil layer is quite dry, but it's quite moist when you dig underneath. I don't think they're taking up much water. The other plants are happy in the same conditions, tomatoes are doing well, salads are doing well, but cucumbers look awful. Should I just give up and replace them with something else, or is there a way to rescue them? I can d...