General Gardening Discussion

With regards to the Ivy, could you possibly contain it by planting it in a big plant pot and raise it off the ground with some bricks to stop the roots getting into the ground soil?

...Brilliant Scrungee....It's Blue Tits here that cause mayhem...my Old Dad was a ships rigger and he likes to keep his hand in so he every year he does my Sweet Pea and Bean frames....fabulous they are until the Blue Tits come and undo all the knots and fly off with the twine

I've grown Arctotis 'Harlequin' from seed and size wise they are ready to be hardened off and planted out. Thinking it's too early, do I risk it or pot them on again?

Not to be mistaken with Home Bargains or B&M, but if anyone has a Family Bargains (aka 99p Store) near them they are selling 10pk trays of plants at the moment for £2.49, they have pansies that are big enough to be used straight away but also have trays of young geraniums, dahlias, begonias etc,...

I thought it was an open invitation to do some Slug and Snail removal Must have missed the bit about your open day....

That, as someone who has worked in retail and does quite a bit of operations consulting is totally retarded. They're stocking a product that will definitely get binned. Don't care how much you reduce them by, a large percentage will be waste.

I love day lillies and that is a corker, Val

Hope it works for you Val,as long as they smell marigoldie you will be O.K. I think the best ones are Tagetes, fingers crossed

I usually have to rewrite the labels of seed trays and pots with "permanent markers" at least twice during the sowing/growing season due to the bleaching effect of the Sun.........but I'll pop down to my local Wilko's and get one......thanks Scrungee!!

Excellent, I didn't sow any last year as I originally planned to as above. I'll get them sown soon! Thanks all.

Thank you, both. I'll do the daffs tomorrow and await developments on the fuscias.

I am grubbing out a cotoneaster, I think it's a franchetti. Although it's fairly small because I have hacked it ruthlessly for years it has a good big trunk about 5/6" across. I've been digging down around this, cutting off any roots I can find but it doesn't really want to come out of the...

I didn't realise they could be used for food. Wild rabbits in my last garden didn't touch them but devoured everything else in sight!

No they'll be fine Val...they'll soon be up and running again

Hi @minki , I potted mine in compost when the green eyes were getting swollen. Then place them just sticking out of the compost.

I sympathise! I haven't got Spanish bluebells but British ones and the same applies Silu, I hate them! Luckily there aren't many in my garden and I dig up what I can, weedkiller is useless. What is more irritating to me is they've self seeded from elsewhere, there were none in my garden when I...

I would plant them in the ground ASAP, sooner in the ground getting the nutrition and water they will be happer.

Oooh, next year then lol

Just saw this about a new show called The Big Allotment Challenge. Might be worth a shufty

If they on,y started dispatching Friday surely they wouldn't have dried out that much. No quality control obviously