General Gardening Discussion

HiWell we blanched the broad beans i picked approx 5lb so they are in the freezer still picking more and the week before last picked about 5lb thanks all for your input.

Hi Jack. I think it would be better to pee in the waterbut and to put the manure on the garden. :DManure is really more of a soil conditioner than a fertiliser. That is to say the organic material is very good at improving the soil and helping to retain moisture. A lot of the fertiliser...

"they tend to be really expensive dont they"They go "on-offer" now and again. How about plant a few small yews and train them up. Have the joy of them for 10 years, and then flog them for a small fortune?Better still, grow a couple of new yew topiary every year, and after ten years flog...

Hammer.They're awesome pictures of your veg. A greenhouse if definitely on my Christmas list this year.Ant.

:D :D :D My post is bottomless indeed Stone dust over here is called 'Quarry dust' and is great as a base for paths or for laying slabs on We also have 'blinding' which is a mixture of quarry dust and rough gravel which is used as a base in road making and is also great as the base for a gravel...

I thought that was hilarious -what an idea. think I will leave a little note under my slabs I am about to lay....

Hi again, I pellet, salt, drown, chuck in the bin-anything. My garden has a number of old kerbstones and slabs so the blighters have been livin' la vida loca, in the last week I have gone from thinking I am making headway to being convinced there is some revenge plot going on for pelleting...

Hey guys, well it seems she's come back to action. The trunks have quite a few shoots coming off them. I'll post a pic soon. Unfortunately, a lot of my plants now seem to have problems with them. A far cry from how it all looked in May:(

Thank you for this useful post:thumb::thumb:

Sadly mostly rather boring things; initial plan is quantity, not quality, and to replace them with more interesting things when we have some more in the piggy bank.I started to write up what we have been up to, in case you are interested, but I wrote so much it was inappropriate to put in...

Hi everyone.I thought i'd have a look on eBay for plants and came across Ixia viridiflora. I'm interested if anyone here grows it?Ant.

i forgot to say i also love heuchera

Hi Ceaf you're not on your own in the past I have made the mistake of adding grow-more to my potting compost only to find out that it burnt the plants roots but as the saying goes 'it's all a learning curve' and we all make mistakes sometimes.Hel.xxx.

Either their prices come down drastically and speedily or they risk becoming obsolete. My brother mentioned this system to me and I meant to have a good look-thanks for reminding me

Wowee Kristen-Just been googling myself a wish list on those peonies-gorgeous flowers gorgeous price tag aswell. Well looks like I have 7 yrs to wait on one those seeds turning up trumps then!!

I planted one of these four years ago to cover the wall of an out building at the house of an elderly customer. They died and the house went empty for six months, The vine totally enveloped the outbuilding and aparently the tendrells even lifted and got under the slates.A far nicer plant is...

I have three small children, them and their friends would ,if they had their way, which they most certainly don't, would live on Big Macs, Chicken McNuggets, Chinese or other takeaways! Do they want to eat real food or vegetables, definately not! They do eat bread and home made potato and leek...

Cheers Woo thanks for the advise.:thumb: I'll take plenty of cuttings just incase some dont make it. I want to take a couple of branches off the plant because it is getting a bit unruly, and i hate throwing anything away, especially if i can get some new plants out of it, even if i have to give...

No borrowers, I was to embarrassed to admit it coz everybody else seems to have no problem.:o 02

Just catching up - why do I think (well, I know different now) that honeysuckle is always yellow? Looking at yours and hearing about the smell is really making me think. I have, for some reason, not wanted any for my trellis but am thinking of changing my mind. Can I have it in a pot? You...