General Gardening Discussion

Depends how many packets of seeds you want / use in a year, but I bought 36 packets for £18 and saved a further £70.34 Might be more limited choice now, but perhaps worth thinking about for 1st September next year, assuming they repeat the sale.

are you trying to make me depressed?

That's the method that I use for Iochroma which is pretty similar. It goes like this;When the fruit comes off the plant with very little effort place them on a saucer in a warm'ish room. When it starts to go black on to step two..............I use three pieces of white workshop paper towel...

Oooo, @Kristen will love this one

Hi All.Hope you all had a good colourful summer after the bad cold start. I like others got the free seeds from Amateur Gardening magazine during the year. We had already purchased and planted the seeds we wanted as it was the 1st year for us to try growing our annual plants from seeds.Being...

Photos would help as it's quite hard to picture.The trees may have been there before they put the fence up, hence why they put it where it is. Doesn't exactly sound like it would have been easy to get the posts in either, hence they may have had to put them in where they could.As for who...

Get in line Sorry! Off topic for a moment:- @Allan Hodgson - we popped into the Royal Yew at Dean last week and the menu looked good. Have you eaten there and is it any good?

Cheers all, I'll have a hack at it tomorrow, took a photo today. I also circled its companion which I purchased and planted at the same time, I think I counted 3 plants hidden under it now.

Bit wide open to ratings on that post Zigs, I reckon !!!

Top job, Bilbo!!!!

Good idea with the ball, I will try that.Hopefully we won't get any extreme temps this winter.

Assuming it's quite a sunny border, if you are looking for a nice evergreen shrub I can recommend Osmanthus x burkwoodii. Small flowers but they smell gorgeous ...I also have Philadelphus Virginal which also smells lush ...If it's shady, you could go for Skimmia Japonica Rubella,...

p.s.You are welcome to have it delivered here - I'll look after it until you are back

Thanks guys. I did ask myself earlier if you could "plant" over plants, but thought that was a silly question. Nice to know it is possible

Hiya.I think this might be getting a bit over-complicated. Basically, dig it through, removing any weeds/roots the best you can. I would add manure except in those areas that will be used for root crops.

Seems likely, and no idea!

Many seed suppliers give away £5 vouchers with their catalogues - I've just got a voucher/code from DT Brown (who do big packets and free P&P) and used it to buy a bargain selection of seeds that would have cost over £12 for only a couple of quid top up over the voucher cost Premier seeds on...

I don't think they're very fussy Val. They grew like weeds in a previous garden of mine (clay soil), I couldn't get rid of them!

I'm lucky enough to have a few independent nurseries around here. Garden Centre group recently bought the largest (and crappest so no great loss), but the others are all useful for certain things (ie; one is good for unusual tender plants, another has a good range of herbaceous perennials, two...

Just got in from work and had a shuftie of the garden. The 2 large cactus dahlias ( around 5 ft) are no more, the wind has wiped them out :-(Also, lots of snapped stems, the dahlias in the pots are ragged too. the little uns cucumber plants are a shredded too :-(Had a word with the neighbour...