General Gardening Discussion

Have found phone no of the compost bin people as follows:-08450732002

I had one it flowered the 1st year very pretty has not been seen since !

Twelve inches tall, Palustris ... is it a midget or deformed?Mine in one season is up and over the guttering!The nebulis "they" don't label things properly here .. but gardening is just catching on! :eek:Nao faz mal, Jazid ... I often don't read things properly! :D

P.S. - clematis montana is liable to take over too - unless kept severely checked! But it's lovely! :D

Dony know Im afraid but its VERY pretty!

The Barley straw tip is good. Our pond is clear now but I guess it wouldn't hurt to put some in for good measure. Is it left in over the winter?

your garden looks lovely

Hi Plotty.As usual the update is very good and informative. Nice to see that everything is coming on well.You are in front with your beans as ours have only just started getting a move on after all the dry weather.It will be interesting to see the results of using the soap mixture.Hope you...

WILL DO SOON JAY :D :D :D

Could be roots are dry/too warm if not under stones. Also could be magnesium deficiancy. Try a good watering with a dose of Epsom Salts addedEdit: RHS Advice: Magnesium deficiency

Not just me then Liz.... I put loads of seeds in the opposite side of the garden too but they don't seem to have come up. Think I'll hang a mirror on next door's fence, lol!

hi sash,try sprinkling porrage oats around your brassicas to avoid slug damage,and i have found that liquid feeding with maxicrop plant growth stimulant on a weekly basis helps combat the effects of flee beatle on brassicas. hope this helps ang good luck!

raining here for 2hrs just dampened things,no thunder though

:D Yep used to spend a day 4 or 5 times a year giving it all a really good rake through to clear out any dead or moss & of course the stripes always looked really crisp again, instead of that very tired flat look they can get... Lovely garden jazid. Looks a pleasurable place to...

Hi Rosa ... NO, our home is surrounded by vineyards on four sides !! which is a lovely situation to live in PLUS the advantage of someone else doing all the work ....we just get to enjoy the end product ..... M-L

Thankyou very much Liz, i'm going to give it a go and see what happens . thanku for the reply. :D

Hi LCHHave you thought of growing plants from seed. I gutted my garden 4 years ago in the Autumn, and then sowed 22 packets of seed in the following spring. I concentrated on perennials, most of which flowered in the first year. They filled the garden and looked very good even in the first...

Hope they are of help then.. Sounds to me like you are maybe after a "Bog Garden"?? Try this link.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/htbg2/flat/module4/bog_garden_plants1.shtmlGood luck..!!! :D

Are they ment to be a pompom ????? Hubby does show dahlias (and therefore i do to LOL. Poms are a tight round ball max 2" across i will see if i can find apiccy of some To get good flowers on dahlias feed with potash weekly as soon as they have buds

windy you didnt offend me only joking and i confused the issue posing as jazz, mind though windy your new avatar looks menacing, I thought i was seeing things also when the, anyway what is it blinking at us, a shark, its been allsorts. :D :D