General Gardening Discussion

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

Thanx for that Bluedun I must admit I haven't had the heart to dig up the old bamboo fingers crossed I'll get lucky just like you did.:thumb:Hel.xxx.

:thumb: Hi Bluedun, yes I chop mine with a spade with no problem, but as I have done this since the 2nd year I planted the clump.. and now I do it monthly I don't have a problem....:thumb:

some good advice there which I will be putting into practice

The good: campanulas (just stunning), aquilegias (gorgeous), New Dawn roses, Salvias, hollyhocks The bad: cosmos (tiny compared to last year), zantadeschia (disappointing), malva (too thuggy) The indifferent: penstemons and dahlias (not as good as usual) I don't know why!!!

tut tut! you need to pay a profeshional lol!!!!!!Actualy i know what its like trying to find the time.

You could sow some stump rooted carrots and Early Onward peas. You would normally plant potatoes from the end of February ( weather permitting ) through March/April time. However, you could try growing them in pots now, for harvesting around October time.

Daisybelle, Ceanothus are what`s known as wall shrubs. This means they are quite happy growing against walls,using them as supports. I wouldn`t worry about tying in every branch. For pruning, just keep the shrub tidy but basically let it do it`s own thing. As for the flowers falling off when you...

Yes, Dee. It was a great bulb, about the size of a saucer. I bought it on holiday in Florida and since it had a few shoots on it, I carefully wrapped it up and put it in my handluggage. Guess what? when my things were scanned at the airport, they thought it might be a bomb and I had to unpack...