General Gardening Discussion

ok dude my bad i spose the ones with th polens are males

Michael Bolton CDs work particularly well! :D

There were no customs there to check, this was a growing plant bought in the airport shop, obviously other countries don't have the same restrictions as we now have. All my cuttings survived and have grown in to healthy plants some flowering with in a year as shown previously on GC.

Hi dudes i have a giant mellon plant do i need to polinate it for it to fruit? or would it fruuit without beeing polinated?

Lemon verbena (Aloysia triphylla) grows wild here but is getting rare. I have one in my garden and have found it needs regular pruning to encourage new growth and keep a nice shape, otherwise they get very straggly. It can reach a height of 10 feet! I dry the leaves for tea. It's called Bela...

Thanks Liz. I'll give it a go tonight and if it goes well, will send you some photos Thanks.

Hey, Kandy, I like the hanging mouse hotel! B&B ... bed and bugs. Oh, but there are probably some of those around still for people!

Aww thank you bananaman, wish I had a superhero avatar too but the nearest I can get is Poison Ivy :rolleyes: :D

Thanks frogesque, I'll take your advice and take cuttings. Don't want to have to climb over twice :D

chkm8, you just got to have a gunnera! :D

Yep it's the flower spikes that are begining to show colour. Probably about 5" tall just now. When I planted them in spring last year they took forever to show and it was late autumn before they showed their true worth. This year they're much further forward so maybe they don't like disturbance.

Erm, I plant out my leeks in July ! But have overwintering varietiy (Yates Empire) for the hungry gap (they last til end April), so maybe that's why I get away with planting out later? [ 17. June 2006, 07:46 AM: Message edited by: supersprout ]

use the info from RHS re plants that are less likely to get honey fungus - but they don't make any promises :( http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles1100/honey_fungus.asp

no none of them flowered but the ones with the brown leaves are the runty ones and it started off with blotchs on the leaves, I thought I had maybe sprayed them with bug killer or something, it was the top leaves went brown but I can see the beginning of new green leaves. It said on the packet...

Fair enough all, I wasn't suggesting anyone scour out their ponds on my say-so, but I do think it irresponsible of the BBC to promote these plants to new gardeners. Bananaman, I know nothing about keeping fish, so why is Elodea etc. suitable for your purposes and the natives listed aren't?

Brilliant photos!

I guess I have only had it a year, it was about 5 feet tall when I got it and is now at least 9 feet tall. My friend and I were looking at it today and she said about supporting it as it is full of fruit and as they get bigger it will drop and probably drag on the floor. I was made aware of this...

looks hopeful to me Sue. I'll give it a gander later. Off to mow some lawns!

It seems to be fairly easy to come by in most shrub nurseries in Britain.

This is an excellent on-line guide to organic gardening month by month: http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/todo_now/ornamental_now.phpSee further links from that page to organic vegetable growing, herbs etc etc.. All your questions answered :D