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Thanks @fairygirlIs a liquid seaweed feed good enough (as I already have it!) or should I pick something up? Potash, I seem to remember vaguely might be good for fruits?As for sacrificing them, that’s kind of what I did last year, keep the ones in the container for eating and the ones in...

I have found that both upright and prostrate varieties of Rosemary start to shed their leaves regularly after a couple of years. As the plants get larger, if they are near paths or paving the sweeping up becomes a chore and I now only grow a small upright variety in a container.

Just be aware that too many pellets around a plant can have the opposite effect - it attracts the slugs, so, annoyingly, it can make the problem even worse.Some snails are so tiny they're almost impossible to see, but the slugs are as bad - or worse. It's slugs here that do the most damage to...

Alpines of many kinds will grow anywhere in the UK if they have the right conditions. The biggest problem is wet, so they need to be in the sort of site shown in @kindredspirit 's lovely container, and in virtually nothing but grit or similar. It's the wet they don't like, as already said. I...

Layers of material is always a better method - so the seaweed/grass, plus some cardboard [which will also rot down] but then add a layer of rotted manure, or something similar - like hefty soil, on top instead of weed fabric, and that will be far better. Soak the soil thoroughly first, add...

In any supermarket I have been in that sells plants, I have not seen any evidence, ever, that would back up the notion that they should be allowed to sell them in the first place.Selling plants is not like selling tins of beans. The live plants need care whilst there to keep them looking nice,...

I agree. Also I look after some disabled people on benefits and one of them has lost his winter Warm Home Discount but not through any higher income (he can't work). They have moved the administration of it from the power companies (who just reduced their bills by the set amount if they were...

Wondering if anybody can recommend a good brand of long handled shears for cutting large wide hedges etc, not long handled grass edging shears. Most of the brands I have had a look at on the net are telescopic which in my experience are dreadful and after the last telescopic tool I bought which...

Yesterday RHS Bridgewater was open till 9pm for a special event, so i went to take advantage of the golden hour, when the sun is low in the sky. There was some thin cloud at times but the light was still good. The Camassias, Bistort and Candelabra Primulas were at their peak. There was a coot...

Spittlebug...

Mayflower, or Hawthorn. There are loads of varieties and all of them are lovely Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) - Woodland Trust