General Gardening Discussion

Woo Hoo! Mine are due this week too, as always by this time of year my greenhouse is already stuffed full, so I'll have to start making compromises, the Brookside Nursery plugs will be given a good cosy position as I've paid good money for them but all my cuttings will have to take their chances...

Thanks silu I do deadhead all my rhodos but appreciate the advice.

Shucks, I feel honoured to be blown a few xxxx's. It's been a while....Borrow a couple of pigs from the farmer. They'll do the weeding for you

I have heard many of you rave about pre-sprouting seeds, i.e. on damp paper, so you don't commit to compost until you know they are viable seeds...I've done it for the first time, and now have signs of sprouting on my seeds. cosmos, mangetout peas, lettuce, pepper, etc.My question is - When...

I haven't tried that, so no idea.However, I did find an alternative use for an old hose ... I turned it into a planter: one old hose, a packet or three of cable ties ...A hour later ...

That sounds similar to mine. Mine get afternoon sun.Forgot to say earlier on , but, doing them like this means that you can start cuttings off in there as well as it's easy to just mist them and then being enclosed it helps to keep the humidity in. Works brilliantly for Fuchsias

That, unfortunately, Sandy has been said many times about many chemical eradication solutions to organic material. I, like you, suspect that any chemical poison that kills plants of any sort stands a real chance of being poisonous to Humans and through many means is infiltrated into the food...

Thanks, thought as much but thought I'd check just in case, and found my Jeyes Fluid too eventually. Now have a sparkly greenhouse all ready for the season so feel I have achieved something today for a change

Id not realised what a problem they could be. Just read up on them and they sound a nightmare

Hi,Most of my Fuchsais have been kept in the frost free greenhouse over winter and are just starting to break out the first new leaves, though still very small.However before the leaves really come out they also push out flower buds.I have been pinching out these buds on the basis its...

I'd add:- Buy concentrate and mix your own solution of glyphosate. The ready-mixed stuff is over diluted and you'll need a strong solution to kill all the roots of ground elder in one application. I wouldn't dig, either. If by any chance the roots aren't dead, you'll only break them up and...

@NigelJ ,@strongylodon , thanks for the reassurance . We have had a very mild winter here as well. The only thing I can do now is wait and see . Planting dry root plants never fills me with confidence as it seems you are planting some dead sticks !The description on the three varieties I have...

The sprout will be green...rub them off, then stand them in trays or egg boxes and put them somewhere in light that is frost free and not too warm.If it is too dark or too warm the chits will become etiated and when you put them in the soil and bury, they will snap so your back at square...

Oh, that sounds terrible what happened to your garden Silu :( very nice of her to come visit though and she's my favourite out of them, I think it's Jim I'm not too keen on. He is very "hoochter choochterish" as you put it! Yes, Gardeners World is a bit too ideal but I did find the hour long...

I've grown many an orange plant from seed, got a few that are pretty old, never had one flower as yet. I seem to remember that some citrus root from cuttings and others don't, so those ones are usually grafted, but air layering might do the trick I guess. I have airlayered a few plants, but...

I've used Parkers and also Garthwaites. Both are good with Garthwaites being more expensive but much bigger roots. Parkers roots were great but smaller [I've just received 9 Cleopatra variety Foxtail lilies from them] and they can take up to 28 days to get to you while Garthwaites are with...

One of the ways to combat dryness is to use one of the large pot saucers and half fill it with agricultural grit and then just put enough water in to dampen it, and that will moisten the air around the plant helping to prevent the brown edges of the leaves. I've just had delivered today a...

If the rhizomes are big get yourself some buckets from wickes or B&Q and pot them up in multi purpose compost and put them in the GH. If the rhizomes are smaller pot up into small pots with multi purpose compost and place in a windowsill. There is a fantastic thread on here Canna 2016