General Gardening Discussion

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

Thanks for all your replies folks.Re: The Well-Tempered garden by Christopher Lloyd - that's 2 nods for this book - I will try and hunt it out for my mum - sounds interesting and I am almost certain she hasn't already got it. I remember a long time ago seeing a Gardener's World special...

As its a small lawn mix the seed in but fill any deep hollows first.I always use bagged top soil for making top dressing so as not to introduce weed seeds.

Thanks all - only just picked up all the replies (wasn't ignoring you!). I shall try to be patient - I moved it to another spot today as I think it was getting a bit too moist - our gutter overflows which is great for the ferns but not so good for the other plants. It's "Donation", which I...

Great info - thanks!

Youll find it a lot easier to lift the turf if you strim the grass down.

i have a lavatera (blushing bride) and at the end of the year i really ripped into it and new leaves are starting to show now they are fantastic and trust me they take a hard prunning any time of the year and if you plant the bits you cut off they will grow no problem

Here's this same plant at our "local" which I had not noticed before (probably wasn't in bloom) ...Now I'll probably see it everywhere. :D

Thanks for all your help.I didn't know that(what can i say!) about putting the cut stems in water. That's lovely.David, thank you for your kind words. It's just that i feel bad never being able to answer anything, i always do the asking. Anyway, the knowledge i have learned will go into...