General Gardening Discussion

wot ya wonna do is grow sunflowrs the chickenks will grow with them 8 foot tall chickens . :D

This is mine late yesterday afternoon.As you can see it has been battered by the wind just a little but still has lots of flowers. Lives happily in this stone trough but I think it will need moving soon. PS. You can see the black sooty bits on the leaves

Hi Peter thats a really constructive post thank you, Perlite is supposed to retain moisture as well as keep the soil loose for root development and drainage so i guess its multi functional, but for my garden its not really needed more sand will do fine next time and be half the price. It does...

Good luck with it Dave,bobj & PeterS - what can i say. Absolutely gorgeous.cheers

lifted and put in pot

How did you get on with the velutina seeds? They are apparantly one of the easier nana seeds to germinate, although I havent tried - yet.Gaz

I have a young plant in the garden. It sailed though most of the winter and was still producing new green leaves. However the cold snap in early March has cut it back to the ground. Poking around in the mulch, i have found buds forming so it should come back fine (i hope).But yes get it in the...

Hello again My last reply got wiped when the computer crashed. You can grow quite a lot of plants in a north facing bed surprisingly, certainly the woodland ones would do well. I have a bed with 2 trees in it and shaded by an enormous leylandii hedge. In it I grow: foxgloves, primroses,...

Thanks for the warning Bashy - I'll tell all my gardening contacts to steer clear of them!

After a miserable walk to the station this morning there's now hardly a cloud in the sky over central London! Hope it stays like that as I thought I'd go to Green Park and watch the Red Arrows fly over at lunchtime.

thanks David just wanted to check before i start spraying everything in sight :D

Your tomatos should now go into 3inch pots,and your peppers into grow-bags

They like plenty of air to the roots Kat, they are epiphytes. If you have some bark chippings try mixing about 50/50 with compost. Mrs S uses a mixture of bark, perlite, charcoal and silver sand but Mr S thinks that is OTT.

John :D :D :D

That does look very close to what I have, I just don't remember ever planting them?This year though I an having a lot of bulbs I planted two years ago coming up for the first time and so making it very hard for me to remember what I planted!?

In a jar of white distilled vinegar :D :D ... :D :D :D

Thanks for the advice here, will take some cuttings this week and at the end of the season before cutting back or replacing.Many thanksSteve...

Hi dee, thanks for your comment but am wondering that if I did I may infringe some sort of copywright as it's the what christine used to say as an opening to her programme during her series. It was a great series, she realy down to earth and I loved her neighbour reg. Did anyone else watch it...

Depnding on the plant it is always best to move it before the sap rises which because of the weather we have had will be hard to determine this year.

thanks Paul,great quick responce