General Gardening Discussion

That does look very close to what I have, I just don't remember ever planting them?This year though I an having a lot of bulbs I planted two years ago coming up for the first time and so making it very hard for me to remember what I planted!?

John :D :D :D

They like plenty of air to the roots Kat, they are epiphytes. If you have some bark chippings try mixing about 50/50 with compost. Mrs S uses a mixture of bark, perlite, charcoal and silver sand but Mr S thinks that is OTT.

Your tomatos should now go into 3inch pots,and your peppers into grow-bags

thanks David just wanted to check before i start spraying everything in sight :D

After a miserable walk to the station this morning there's now hardly a cloud in the sky over central London! Hope it stays like that as I thought I'd go to Green Park and watch the Red Arrows fly over at lunchtime.

Thanks for the warning Bashy - I'll tell all my gardening contacts to steer clear of them!

Hello again My last reply got wiped when the computer crashed. You can grow quite a lot of plants in a north facing bed surprisingly, certainly the woodland ones would do well. I have a bed with 2 trees in it and shaded by an enormous leylandii hedge. In it I grow: foxgloves, primroses,...

I have a young plant in the garden. It sailed though most of the winter and was still producing new green leaves. However the cold snap in early March has cut it back to the ground. Poking around in the mulch, i have found buds forming so it should come back fine (i hope).But yes get it in the...

How did you get on with the velutina seeds? They are apparantly one of the easier nana seeds to germinate, although I havent tried - yet.Gaz

lifted and put in pot

Good luck with it Dave,bobj & PeterS - what can i say. Absolutely gorgeous.cheers

Hi Peter thats a really constructive post thank you, Perlite is supposed to retain moisture as well as keep the soil loose for root development and drainage so i guess its multi functional, but for my garden its not really needed more sand will do fine next time and be half the price. It does...

This is mine late yesterday afternoon.As you can see it has been battered by the wind just a little but still has lots of flowers. Lives happily in this stone trough but I think it will need moving soon. PS. You can see the black sooty bits on the leaves

wot ya wonna do is grow sunflowrs the chickenks will grow with them 8 foot tall chickens . :D

I planted three last year in different areas of the garden (three for two I think at B & Q) Not sure which one it is but it has variagated leaves and purple flowers in autumn, non of them have grown much and they look sickly, I am going to dig them out and put them in containers

At least you weren't "bittern" about itI'll get me coat

If you've got transport, try Freecycle. There's always people wanting to get rid of rubble.

Ah Scotkat I'm sure you two girls had the bestest time together! Hel.xxx.

Celia sweetie your old garden was very lovely and I like your poker method of planting too 'All in! :D Hel.xxx.