[AlaninCarlisle]

....not grow as many celeriac. After years of failure, two years ago I finally twigged that they need a very long season, copious feeding and very rich soil (heavily manured). I went overboard last February and started a few dozen in the propagator, planting them out in April. Talk about an abundance of riches!

[juvenal]

...Find a way to stop squirrels stealing my sweetcorn.

[mjg000]

After losing all my corn every year for 3 or 4 years I finally erected this last year and had my most successful harvest ever!

[mjg000]

What I definitely need to remember to do is put labels on ALL my seedlings and make sure they don't get removed!

[Tenhens]

After losing all my corn every year for 3 or 4 years I finally erected this last year and had my most successful harvest ever!

What was the cause of the problem?

[Plot 6B]

Net the leeks to protect them from onion/leek fly!

[AlaninCarlisle]

Hahaha, on the subject of leeks, I must remember to only start them off in late April or early May to plant out late June. My entire earlier planting of a couple of hundred leeks have wood-like centre stems so that only the outer part is edible

[mjg000]

My corn was routinely eaten, ripped off the stalk and scattered around just as they ripened, the word on the site was that it was badgers but I believe it was squirrels as they scaled various attempts to fence it in