General Gardening Discussion

Firstly avoid the temptation to water it. Cordylines are fine in pots...they simply grow more slowly that's all. Plus the architectural quality is enhanced in pots in my opinion. However, a larger pot would be my next move. Sam, I suspect you have used ordinary mpc which is not really...

Covered my newly planted, (last spring) grape vine which had 2 inch shoots, also a couple of Crape myrtle plants. I used fleece bags on the crape myrtles but they were not quite big enough, so some of the bottom shoots were not covered. Strange thing, the covered parts are damaged, the parts let...

I agree, roders...maybe the BBC should move GW from BBC2 to BBC4, then there won't be any needless cancellations.

I had some Marigold seed pods lying on the ground last year and they started to germinate before the frost hit them. From the pods I did collect and store very few have germinated.

Tis the same down here, i have lots of stories

Hi Chris.When I did my old garden the grass area was about 20x5m. I gave it a couple of treatments of round up, then after a couple of weeks I rotavated it and raked all the junk and stones out. I then rolled it and sowed the grass seed. I then gave it a light raking and that was it. I did...

I have several of these. and they are so very tough. However, in my area now they are just emerging. I want to see them flower in place etc. If I were to move them out it would be in the fall.

The above is attached to a metal rod with a spike which you stick in the ground. Absolutely brilliant. It's so simple the is b all to go wrong with it! Used it for 20 years without any bothers whatsoever and it reached a great area. I would still be using it today but our private water supply...

It's hard to get round this problem if you're growing in beds. E.g. if you have 2 beds and you inoculate plants in one but not the other, you essentially only have 1 independent replicate (each bed, not each individual plant). This makes a statistical comparison impossible. For instance, one bed...

One of the Bi Product of Sedum, is when you cut back the old dry stuff it makes great Kindling for a log burner, and sounds fun as cracks. The Ash makes good compost when applied to the Garden, or added in your Compost.

Not been at it for too long, but keep it in my head, plus I have a copy of my allotment map, that I print and each year rotate it along, Tatties, Brassicas, other and move it along I have settled on Tatties Red Duke of York, Pentland Dell, and Sempster Brassicas, cabbage, cauli, Broccoli, and...

No more than a couple of inches, based on those wee sprinkler heads I linked to.

With blackthorn you will be able to harvest sloes for sloe gin in due course too!

Just some plants around the pond to soften the straight lines and also give the visitors some cover.

Growing cerinthe also salvia splendens, cleome and ricinus.. eager to pick up some more unusuals

I missed it too Very nice

I can't imagine this technique makes any measurable difference if it did then farmers would use it. My father used to grow 40 acres of maincrop and the extra work of peeling off the rose end off tons and tons of seed potatoes would have been impossible. Maybe these days seed potatoes are shipped...

I've just started the April thread which can be found here.