General Gardening Discussion

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

Any ordinary plant food will do. I don't water mine in winter, once they die back and become dormant they can fend for themselves. Don't forget to put some polystyrene or broken pieces of pot in the bottom of your containers to help drainage, and in winter raise the pots up a little [for...

HB ... first nibble on the Thai Dragon .. no heat but will nibble more tomorrow and see if any comes. Then he'll try the Naga. :eek: I'm only the messenger! :rolleyes:

Oh, I love Bess with an attitude .. better than any Rottweiler!Our cat Penguin actually brought a Rottweiler (Blake) up in Bucks ... she was afraid of no one. The owners of Blake however were not so amused when they used to take him walking and he reared up and flapped his paws around like he...

Thanks Hornbeam & Frogesque Here is a pic taken this afternoon (not very good quality tho') Most of the plants are just starting to flower. Anyway, next time someone tells me they are weeds I'll be able to say that they are Aster amellus.

just be aware.......

Leave them to self seed if you want them to continue, or collect seed as they die after they have flowered.

Hellow flowerofshona and welcome to GC! Another hurray (I have one with my ginger) two new shoots have shot out of my Hoya!My is in a shady spot, no direct sun .. but that's because I get a little more of it here! :DHave patience, sit back and relax and maybe yours, too, will spring...

Yes they lay the concrete on a good hardcore base and the gradients you may or may not request are screeded in. Over the part cured flat concrete is added you chosen colour powder then over polythene (for a smooth finish) the moulds are pressed into the mixture. Another layer of colour powder is...

Thank you all for your help and guidence, happy gardening!!

They need hard pruning if you want to keep them within bounds, and to get a reasonable shape, but I've found cutting back into old wood is not successful. I don't so much deadhead through summer as mini-prune!