General Gardening Discussion

I did think about saucers and looked for some square clear ones but on Amazon they are over £10 per saucer!!!!! The tubs are quite big so needed big saucers. There's no way round it other than to re-do them but I'm thinking of using something else to cover the holes as well as stones like some...

At this time of year I place pots of seed a] in the house in a bright spot but no direct sun, or b] in a shady spot in the garden (where they risk being forgotten).Ordinary MPC does dry out too quickly, and this MiracleGro stuff that is sold dry and you rehydrate it is awful for drying out...

Yup. Also farmers in USA have been sued for "saving" Roundup-resistant Rape seeds, which the farmer had never bought and said contaminated his land from his neighbours.Roundup is a great chemical, for killing weeds, and is enabling farmers to grow food affordably to feed the world. Allowing...

Yesterday I bought a tomato plant called 'Cheriettes of fire'.[emoji1]

Cottagey plants for a dry spot? Digitalis lutea does well dry here................Digitalis parviflora.......................Digitalis carilion................Finally, Digitalis "Illumination Pink"..................

Thanks for that Joolz, but no, none of them really resemble the wee beasties I found I'll try and find some tomorrow and get a photo

I don't think that the named varieties are - well ... especially on my heavy soil. Heuchraholics suggested to stick to the larger leaf (named variety) ones, on heavy soil, as they were more tolerant than the smaller leaf ones. Not surprising, to me, that species are the strongest of the lot.

I've always fancied setting up cameras in the garden... It does sound like a fox and I had a poke around the depths, just in case it had drowned. All this savagery in the garden!

Nup, I checked. it's just a moosive fern

Found an old pic of the garden, before we planted the cherry in the middle (happy to move that if necessary)

If I leave my Red Star outdoors over winter it gets very scraggy and loses it's colour, it eventually recovers by about september, so I now bring it into the greenhouse during the cold months.

I splashed out on Nemaslug last year, and treated the veg patch. So far this year my veg are fairly slug free, although lots of snails around, whereas the flower border has lots of slugs as well as snails.

There's a bit of it going on Here Nate

Cheers guys. We have had a lot of rain the last 2 days - a helluvalot of rain Will take cuttings from none flowering shoots first thing tomorrow morning then. Cheers!

I use a product called Agritox from the local Farm shop It kills the Marestail but not grass, so is suitable for lawns. BUT it WILL kill plants so no good elsewhere Large areas can be covered in sheets of newspaper and covered in chipped bark for a very successful and quite long term solution

Something like this

Yes I think it would help.

There's a lovely assortment of flowers there sniffy, really pretty!

I have to agree with Kristen, I have a Sambucus racemosa aurea that is waiting to be planted, it is more robust than Sutherland's gold, which in my experience needs more moisture to thrive, its not the first one I've seen struggle in dry weather, sadly.As mentioned I would put the hose pipe on...

It was a lot easier in the old days. We just attached a hose to the old standing hand pump on the tank and pumped the excess liquids into the farmer's field (when he was muck spreading). Many years ago one of our neighbours, who owned an engineering company, fitted an electric pump and ran...