General Gardening Discussion

They look wonderful Silu.

I watched this last night on catchup, I really enjoyed it. What a great collection of ferns, but how on earth do you keep them watered? Has Chris set up some gizmos to help with that, I'd be interested to know?I also enjoyed seeing the other garden, hardly "small" though and to be honest it...

My friend use ITC-306T heating temperature,it works well and save time, you just plug in your lamp/heater or so to the thermostat, then set your target temperature, it works. And, she set day and night temperature,it's more suitable for plant keeping. She got it from amazon.

I have just germinated some annual Ipomea. I gave them a 24 hour soak, then covered them and put them in a heated propagator - at about 25C. They came up very quickly. The problem will be what to do with them until the weather gets warmer. they aren't going to remain small for long.They say...

Hi Pete, my parents used also straw (among other system) as a frost protector and it works well for that, if it rains only occasionally, so it has chance to dry out. I imagine though in periods when rains are more frequent, it would soak a lot of water and then yes it will become heavy and...

Don't forget they even have robot mowers now. I've seen them in action and they do quite a good job - but you have to make your garden to fit how it works.Now that's a good idea for a new hedge trimmer! A robot trimmer that does it all for you. Should be easy enough . Just combine it...

I have given up the potted lilac thought and have planted it in the ground. Thanks all.

Nipped in and promptly nipped out again. That place used to be so cheap for gardening stuff but now its prices are nothing special. Was after their perlite/vermiculite 10ltr bags but the bags were weird as in they were half full of air giving the impression they were underweight ? so left them

These are mine i ADORE them Hope you like them too http://www.fantasywire.co.uk/index.htmlPlease post piccy's of your favorites too

for years all I got was just leaves,maybe all the effort was going into new bulbs,started with 2 and pulled up 6 and they aren't small bulbs.

Thanks Jiffy , Zigs and WOO I'll give Gardena a ring this week , and try and describe a little orange sliding twiddly bit ! I don't hold out much hope for a 2 pence spare. Going off zigs idea , I may try and make a latch out of wire

Thanks @"M" I agree splitting is very successful but don't feel inclined to give the club any of my clumps. I give them vast amounts of stuff from my garden which they sell to fund trips/keep for themselves alto they'd deny that!! I was a member but felt it best to depart as got fed up with the...

Thanks very much.

Thank you for posting that. Fascinating!

Thanks! Will pot up tomorrow and plant early May.

Argh. Terrible nuisance that plant!

Yeah, they were raised indoors. The red one did brilliant and is still quite a large plant. The variegated one grew massive and then just collapsed. My first thought was vine weevil but instead of just throwing it out I stripped it out of the pot and compost and there was nothing !

Oh No! In the 70mph gales we had on Monday my Teucrium blew away! I was shocked to find it snapped off at the base and it had blown away across the garden like a tumbleweed. I'm so sad; I've taken some cuttings but will probably buy another one as well.

Ok, so the main branch started to shrivel up - so I've chucked it in the bin.When I removed it from the stone, the branch snapped and it was very dry.. bet it's been dead for some time.Now I wanted to try and buy a cheaper alternative (without the pot as I now have two pots, zero...

Hello again,Your advice is brilliant, thank you both very much! I think I am always so concerned about the little seedlings drying out that I actually drown them. I will give the "wait until the leaves slightly" droop suggestion a try, and water the soil until it's damp, like you said...