The French marigold variety 'Boy O Boy' if planted alongside your tomato plants will give off a smell that deters whitefly.
Slugs and snails do not like travelling over gritty surfaces and roofing felt is perfect to stop them reaching your plants.
The smell off the bitumen and the rough surface is too much for them.
The Garden Grower vegetable section contains a selection of how-to articles on growing your own vegetables.
Topics include basic gardening techniques, seasonal tips, advice on pests and diseases and different types and varieties of garden vegetables.
Growing Asparagus
Courgette and Marrow
Capsicum and Chili Peppers
Harvesting Asparagus
How to grow Beetroot
Brussels Sprouts - cultivation and care
How to grow Carrots
Garlic
Growing Leeks
Growing Parsnips
Globe Artichokes
Carrots
- Harvest and store a carrot crop
Buying Carrot Seed
Harvesting
Leeks
How to grow
Runner Beans
Harvesting
Runner Beans
French
Beans, Dwarf Beans
Jerusalem
Artichoke
How to Grow Spinach
for a good all year round crop
Mustard
and Cress
How to grow Millet for Parakeets from Bird Seed
Onion sets
- planting and growing onions
Pickling
Onions From Seed
Asparagus - pests and disease
Carrot pests, problems and diseases
Pests and diseases affecting Parsnips
Solving
Problems with Runner Beans
Nitrogen
deficiency in fruit and vegetables
Strawberry
Pests and Diseases
Controlling garden pests in Winter
How to improve a clay soil
How to get rid of Mealy Bugs
Beeroot pests and diseases
Onion Fly
Carrot Fly
Control Millipedes Using Organic Methods
Methods to Control
Flea Beetles
Why
Grow Organically?
Organic
Pest Control Methods