General Gardening Discussion

Ive got a few hostas in pots that must be pot bound now as they havent been potted on for 8 years or so.They seem happy,lots of foliage and flowers and dont need watered alot.They only plants I keep in tight pots are palms and cycads. I dont want to keep potting them on as they will get just...

They lose their leaves over winter in any case, so the first one should grow some leaves now it's got space to do so I'd give them a feed with Growmore now (available from most gardening places and also places like Asda) In terms of pruning I'd just deadhead them, ie cut the dead flowers off...

Looks like your worm tea is starting to work! Hopefully the plants will continue to improve throughout the summer.

Good one Ian

I'd blitz it with roundup first. Give that a couple of weeks to work, then trim any long/overgrown stuff down a bit (not fully) and blitz again. Give it another two weeks. If anything is still alive, then blitz and wait again.Only when you're sure it's all dead, then I'd clear it and level it....

Vinegar with a little washing up liquid to make it adhere. Sprayed on slugs - my cat doesn't like it either. Cats are creatures of habit - looks like your chicken wire has broken the habit. Any cat could get over that but I expect the cat's lazy!

I got bitten by Karcher, twice - never again. When the second one failed, I Googled for spares and turned up a load of horror stories about split pumps and leaking motor oil all over the place which is exactly what happened to mine.I've had the Nilfisk for five years now, and it is still...

Oooh, thank you for that Scrungee Most especially, thank you for *that*

Thanks for the tips, much appreciated.

one of my favourites of all time has to be Pittosporum "Tom thumb" its just such a smashing plant

Hi Harry, And don't forget on most plants if you pinch carefully, the growing tips you pinch out will give you free cuttings as well

Thanks everyone, I will have a google now I'm armed with a bit more info

I have a four year old Japanese Azalea which, since I planted it, has grudgingly given a few little blooms around March/April. This year, nothing!!! Looking at it (photos attached, it looks a bit sparse at the base though you can see it's got foliage at the tips but no flowers.I am wondering...

Hi TMAK, thanks for the update that's great to know about the regrowth and cutting.I have left mine for now, it is just putting out its new shoots with Spring (it's an outdoor plant). I decided not to chop until I saw how it grows. It only has one ring on unhealthy looking leaves at the top...

Hi, I spotted these while working at a customer's house, there use is for electric fencing but ideal for my needs, i just need some wire now £20 delivered for 100.

Where do you live? Rhodies like acidy soil and shade. Whatever it is, you are not giving it what it likes :(

B&M grow bags are £1-29. I don't know the size other than they look like the growbags we always used to use.

I guess this is a bloom, or blooms too.Catkin from our Pussy Willow (at least I think it's a pussy willow). More pistils and ovaries. That's another tree that started life as some tiny broad leaves I spotted among the weeds. I put a cane near it and let it grow. .

Clueless has some good advice there. Lavender doesn't always grow if you chop into old wooden but does sometimes - I'd pick some of the old limbs and chop back now to see how the regrowth works out. if it doesn't then either replace or replant deeper.