General Gardening Discussion

If you are growing your radish in pots and grow bags but getting nothing from them to harvest it might be due to a lack of water especially if you get a lot of sun where you are growing them.If you grow them in the same containers and pots next year it might be a good idea to use a good fresh...

I have 2 sprinklers. One is a fairly expensive hozelock one. It is rubbish. The other was a 2.99 spinning one from Wilko. It's excellent.But I wonder, is he still interested and able enough to look after the veg patch? Forgive me if that seems insensitive, that's not my intention, just trying...

Good to see you posting again Could you use them on the floor of your chicken run? The chooks would have a field day scratching around plus, their droppings would accelerate the rotting down process. Just a thought.

Picked some up paperwhites from wilko, 3 for £4 and they're poking through already. Did see some in tesco/asda for £8/£10.. The amaryllis has shot up and got a bud, I'm so happy last one was just leaf!

sal73, how do you know fata confetto is root cold hardy and down to what degree?

I planted 250 daffodil bulbs along the side of my drive and footpath to the front door. That area in total was approximately 80 x 3ft. Over the years they now amass about 400-500 and next year will probably need lifting to split them up. The picture below is showing about 15ft x 3ft of that...

Thought I would give this a bump

Taylors Clematis are running a pruning course for Clematis next Feb. Limited tickets .Maybe a good chance to really know how to correctly prune your favourites !

There are supposed to be varieties that are suitable to grow in the UK. I've never tried them myself so reserve judgement, but I tend to think you will always be struggling to provide enough heat and humidity for long enough.If you have ever tried water melons? Its a similar problem, cold...

I've just dumped a bucket full of compost on each of my Agapanthus in the borders just to give them some protection should a period of hard frost come along......just in case!!

Thanks Silu. I'm a couple of miles north of Inverness. I spotted a road sign to a local nursery last week so if the rain holds off tomorrow I'll be wending my way there. Mr S and I hope to stay in the area when we buy our own place and looking at the gardens here they are good for Rhodo's and...

Thank you both for the replies, will get them in this afternoon and trim up Most of my fuchsia's are tender, 3 are hardy. One's been in forever which I don't worry about but Alice Hoffman is in a small pot and I just put a hardy pink/white one (will need you to ID it @Anthony Rogers next year ...

Well, this is Bonis Hall, which is very English, and everyone loved the place. My office was a lovely building that used to be a Fruit Store!! I have to say that McCann realised the historic image value of the Hall and spent a lot of money on keeping the Building pristine, the small...

You are quite the most annoying red headed Somerset dwelling wee sh1t I know but you do make me laugh. Just off to stir the gruel on the open fire, while making some Oatcakes with 1 hand and darning my kilt with the other.Make sure you do some nodding, a nid nid nodding, nodding in your...

That's a fabulous glasshouse David - thanks for the pictures.

Thanks, I thought so. I spent the latter part of the summer spraying with roundup/de-weeding and then subsequently digging most of it over but never actually getting round to planting any grass or sorting the soil out properly.A few small leafy things starting to sprout up now so may do as you...

I hope they thrive Zigs.

I like Tete a tete too. I have it growing in one of my borders but it is quite short. I want one that is a little taller that can cope with the grass verge and ditch edge that I intend to plant them in.

The exotic bed was looking good until Wednesday's one night of -1c and frost.Top of the Brug has collapsed.Begonias Santa Cruz and Gryphon gone to mush but are tuberous so not lost. Hypoestes have partly gone black too.Perilla Magilla gone completely but fortunately as with the...

I've always preferred lichen.