General Gardening Discussion

silly me, I never thought about googling! I've just watched a few u-tube clips, and I think I'll give it a go. Just got to wait for the latest lot of snow to clear!!!

Ha ha! I'm surprised it took so long for someone to make a MIL gag!

Yes, they are all started - whether I am successful or not remains to be seen. If nothing else, at least I had a go.

I'll be keeping them indoors by the look of it today, they seem happy enough at the moment.

My bulbs start coming up from now until end of May and then come the Alliums. Each type of bulb, was planted in each area with the thoughts of when they would appear, the height, and their area relative to what is around them, sun/shade, other plants. So you can have a mixture of bulbs in...

Yes and there even a few moments of Geoff a few weeks ago too. Just Percy to go now - come on beeb!

I thought this was a Derlosperma?

I turned the page in a GW mag the other day & thought it was you iin the tea advert

If you track the ph, you`ll notice something is taking advantage of the free banquet It`ll keep better if its sealed, kept cool and out of the light. The easiest option is to use 1ml of fertilizer per 266ml of water, using a 10ml syringe from the chemist

Mine are struggling , the purple Wave have all germinated but nothing from the others yet after 11 days on the prop . I am growing Wave and Avalanche Petunias, not sure why as they are very frustrating to grow.

That's what I was thinking! Ta. I'm not sure what's in the shed at the moment so if its got a weed killer in it I'll use another one.

Grow it in a pot and keep frost free. It will actually take a little frost, but mine looks finished by this last cold snap - it had been struggling through up to then. On the plus side it's easy from seed. Buy them from Plant World Seeds, not the large seed suppliers that you see in GC's (they...

Try mixing a dry mix of cement on your brand new patio, dressed for summer, then the heavens open. I've never swept so fast in my life. My dry mix was rapidly becoming wet mix, and threatening to ruin my new patio that I'd just made and hadn't even fully finished yet.

Thanks for the headsup raebhoop

My cover finally blew off after the last bout of strong wind. Probably did me a favour because it had become very 'brittle'.

unlucky mate, I find the best way to be with ebay is to set a budget & not to bid one single penny higher than your budget allows, its easy to get caught up in it all.

Looks like you may have some "Rosa Rugosa" in there somewhere. Cheers, Tony.

Sorry, thought you had Ribes sanguineum, flowering currant. I would not prune red currant until it fruits. The dogwood is nice set against cotinus royal purple from mid summer, I think. Deutzias respond brilliantly to correct pruning. Mine flowers well above emerging foliage in long sprays. ...

African violets as posted above seem a good suggestion... if you do get African violets, put small stones in a tray and sit the plants upon them, whilst keeping the tray filled with water.. it keeps the African violet looking in excellent condition

Hmmmm looks like liquid is better. But i would use granular fertiliser as a main feed early spring and late spring , then through the season just have a whizz round with liquid feed in the watering can every now and then , I use Tomato feed from mid July.