General Gardening Discussion

Hi,Many thanks for the very useful tips. It sounds as if there is a lot of hard work ahead. You are right Claire, my Italian daughter-in-law to be speaks excellent English - no accent and perfect grammar.

Managed to sneak home early and catch a Tigridia out in flower, as they only open about 5 or 6 hours.

I like the sound of those chicken pellets. Do you think they'd give clematis a boost too?

Stingo, I was about to say no thank you as I really have just too much of everything at the moment, but then I thought 'thats not what the pioneers would have said'. So yes please I would love some. I will send you an e-mail with my address.I don't have any seeds of either of the Salvias at...

Hello again,Thanks for all the comments, they all seem to make sense, but still no Grapes LOLThanks Stoney as I understand it the correct spring/summer pruning is to cut back to 2 sets of leaves on fruiting spurs (after the fruit) and 3 on all others, but that's difficult with no fruit...

An update. These new filter sponges are fantastic. The pond as never been so crystal clear. I can't believe the rubbish they are getting out. :thumb:

I transplanted a Y.filamentosa a few years ago I now get a constant crop of young Yuccas off the bits of root that were left in this particular type is no problem to divide in fact it's difficult to get rid of.

I put my heated propagator inside my light box. The combination works a treat. My propagator looks like it is the same size as yours Ivory - its a decent size, with good headroom.

Yes were waiting for our oldest to start pre school in September. She's just turned 3 the end of last month and is still going through potty training that was instantly accomplished with the new arrival but she's starting to regress now as she wants to act like her baby sister!!!! I can't even...

:thumb:Well done Adam!Looks kike you definitely have green fingers (and a strong back). All the folk at our gardens are praising these black bags in which to grow spuds.Saves loads on space, no digging-you just empty the bag at around 12 weeks and you have about a dozen spuds!I havn`t tried...

I got mine earlier this year from here - Just make sure you get the preservative to paint on and its worth while (at least for the one I got) doubling up on the floor joists

Being nosey: are you going to plant the potatoes for Xmas?What about the seeds - are you going to sow them all? I think there is still time for carrot, radish & lettuce seed, but I'm not sure about the rest.

Poppy power! :D Hel.xxx.

Plenty of good advice here. The only thing to add is that if you try and take a short cut by putting unrotted material into the ground, it might make matters worse. The process of decomposition is likely to take what little nitrogen you have out of the soil.

That's a beautiful sight.

My Agapanthus are just going over - should they be fed now and if so with what? I am a fan of liquid seeweed!

We have one of those, which never flowered. Last September I pruned it fairly hard, it flowered in April and I have just noticed it is about to flower again.

In David Attenborough's "The private life of plants" series he mentions something similar about a few magnolia seeds found in the bottom of an ancient rice pit in japan which scientists got to germinate and it turned out to be a similar form of magnolia to the more modern plant growing in the...

Dipladenia sanderi, me thinks.

Thank You