General Gardening Discussion

Oh botherations!!!......that was next on my list for my dodgy knee Pete.Oh well back to my very strenuous exercise regime I suppose.

Luis I've recently moved down from my hills, am now down at 800ft asl and my new neighbour says hydrangea does well here. Weather a lot softer here, we've only had a few inches of snow whereas my old house had 4ft drifts I could put it in the garden round the back, but I've got a patio/paved...

Never had problems with couriers always in good condition.

I presume they are just coming up to flowering now, so I wouldn't prune now. But after flowering I would think you could cut the stems down. But leave any new growth coming from the base of the plant.

@mazamboYou mean you're going to change it to The Really Total Gardener", mazambo? All that is happening you're like the rest of us Gardeners....we're learning all the time!!

"His" and "Hers" sprayers, what will they think of next.

Hi ricky101. Thank you for your advice and sorry I have not got back to you sooner'. I have chopped strawberries across the tops and this does seem to be the best way forward. The new growth is too small to be damaged by the haircut. Once this was done it opened up space & light to the new...

Had a good look round over the past day or so and my young rhubarb leaves are fine. The recent cold snap was not as cold as the cold snap in 2018, back then Salvia guaranitica and S involuctra were cut back to ground level and the Zanthophylum was defoliated; this time all three still have...

Hi Mike, I love books too, but they do take up a considerable amount of space. Then, our house is very tiny and crammed. So nowadays I buy way less books than I used to. Actually, I often found myself buying in print books which I first read digitally and liked. I think it is fair to the...

It's been over 3 years since I started this thread. The plants in this section are still fairly small but they are coming together nicely.I wanted this section to look good from the house on a winter's day when it's too cold to go outside. I would like to think that I have achieved what I...

You'll need to get the fork into each hole and try and lift them the best you can, it need doing quite quick after the accident for it to work the best. I'd top up the holes with top soil , using just sand may cause a sump. Never use a roller on a clay base soil as flounders has mentioned ....

There waa a good vendor on eBay selling the roots quite reasonably. Not sure if he still trades

I tried to keep a record of how my garden here developed over the last few years by posting videos on youtube. This playlist tracks the development of the area just outside the living room window which was the first part of the garden I started planting. The site was just a field used for...

Thanks for all the inputs. I'll wait as usual until I can see some real growth around mid-March before I give the lawns their first crop of the season.

Thanks @pete this has been really helpful. I'll give it a go

thank you all for your replies I will leave these mushrooms in peace, at least for now

Ok so I don’t want to kill the conifers, they’re 25’ high in one side, my side is trimmed to 15’. They are our trees , I just would like to give our lawn a chance.

It's not just the mint .in my experience once you have a bit of snow in summer. You have a lot in no time!

Soil Science is perhaps what this question relates to. NO. I'm not going to bog you down with facts and figures.Top Soil basically refers to about the top 12-18 inches of soil. As gardeners. We usually dig and cultivate in general. The top spit. The average depth of a spade or fork. ...