General Gardening Discussion

Sheelagh, if you can`t find the info you want, then just ask.:thumb:

Hi Hoody, If it makes you feel any better, I too don`t do hanging baskets.

Thankyou Borrowers I bought these from local coop garden centre .I always like to have a theme going.Now doing this with my crochet beannie hats inmiddle of making.

Give your fuchsia a haircut to tidy .I personally dont like take wood cuttings much prefer fresh tip cuttings and you coudl take as many tip cuttings form your out of control bush and plant tips in a pot give good water forget about it and in3-4wks youwill have rooted cuttingsGood luck let...

Thanks very much for the helpful replies people! :thumb:

Coolio, on 2-1 i shall pot up and over winter. Unless I get really impatient (which I'm prone to doing...) and will plant in shelter

Cheers Dave, for both things.:thumb:

Completely agree with David. Done it myself and never had any problems:thumb:

Hi Korne I'll certainly keep a close eye on mine. Must say they are doing well, this one was taken 8 weeks apart.

It just ain`t the same without Geoff. I miss that man.

Many thanks for the suggestion. I'll go and track it down, and see what my partner thinks.

I'd say it depends on what you want to use the oil for.If it's for frying then just use regular olive oil, but if it's for making salad dressings with then extra virgin is what you need.

I watched a trial on UKTV gardens ( which by the way is playing funny beggars on my sky-anyone else having the same issue? I could do with assistance), and it more or less stated that liquid tomato fertilizer was the best plant food on all types of plants-herbaceous perennials, annuals, tomatoes...

Lol I never used to be good at photos but i'm getting into it now and they're not too bad

Well on a separate note my copy of 'The RHS A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants' arrived today so Ive been pouring over it all this morning (Haven't been very well..so I didn't manage to make it to college :() the new edition is definitely a vast improvement over my old 1996 edition much more...

If shes not going to be their then yes get it in writing, it saves alot of headache:D

Steve I think it will be pot luck. You can get packets of single colours of Cosmos and other plants, but they have to come from pure bred lines and kept away from other plants when they are germinated.

Ivory, it`s what secateurs are for.:thumb::D

Hi Nathan........... If you have large plants already,just split them now into the damp soil and they will thrive in sun or shade and you will have them forever.

Well, it depends with bought plants to be honest. Garden centres can manipulate flowering times so as to stretch the saleability of a plant. It`s a balance really. It is important to keep the shape of a standard lavender-you paid more for it to be that way after all, so take a chance and...