General Gardening Discussion

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I couldn't agree with you more about fuchsia - at my previous house there was a fuchsia specialist down the road, and I fell in love - and never recovered. For me and the bees the most rewarding is the one on September Garden colour - it just drips colour - and other than cutting down in late...

Yellowing and dropping leaves in fuchsias can be due to a number of causes. Whilst it could be rust, it doesn't sound like that to me that usually shows on the green leaf before it turns yellow and falls. If you got it on the green leaf - then yes, and spraying with a fungicide should work,...

Liz, I've been looking for lime seeds for years. For some reason they seem to think we like seedless varieties in the supermarkets.

Whilst temperature and wet can affect sed growing, light is the big problem. Whilst some seeds do OK in the low light levels during the winter, a lot do not and become leggy and fail. You may get away with it sowing now, but not much later. You can of course invest in special greenhouse lights

Several weeks ago we took on a rescue cat and keep her in the house. We use a wood base litter which can and does go on the compost heaps. Up until then there were always a couple of moggies that hung around the heaps and even sunbathed on them.It's been a while since we've seen them there now...

More important than what you ask for is how regularly you get paid. For regular customers paying cash you can be a bit more flexible especially with pensioners or disabled. Always book your cash payments though or the Tax folk will be on you like a tonne of steaming compost!For anyone that...

You have it Liz, I pretty sure it is Lilium pyrenaicum sort of wild turks cap. The 'Turks Cap' pointed me to http://www.floralimages.co.uk/pliliupyren.htm I shall try and buy some for the spring. Many thanks

Jen, if the weather get a bit severe then yes but if you can move it to a sheltered sunny position then it should be OK. However if you have a cold greenhouse that would be ideal.

Hi Bubbly if you have a wide shallow pot, about 20" or more you can have the cabbages at the back...the heather in centre to front and plant the Violas amongst them. You could pot each cabbage in about 6-7" pots and have then just half sunk it to the compost...they are only for winter and next...

ahh.. that might be the problem.. 'drainage and full sun' woops..the soil is a little claggy and they are sorta behind a tree..Guess it's best to move them now-ish?? Before they start growing again..

Thanks everyone! I did put some feed in before potting up but obviously wasn't enough! I've gien them a good feeding since and they seem to be making valient efforts to come back! Probaby a bit late fot the poor things now but I'll do better next year!

Your very welcome

I stewed the berries with sugar in a separate pan all the purple colour came out but they tasted awful and peppery :eek: so they never made the crumble. I will stick to just the apple in future.

Hello all, when I moved into my new home I bought two packets of mixed seeds, that were labled "Butterfly and Bee Garden" and "Fragrant Garden" each pack contained a mixture of annuals and first year flowering perennials. the mix in each pack was sub devided into size 3"-20" and 20"-60"...

We have 'Attar of roses'(smells like Rose Water), 'Lady Plymouth' (Eucalyptus scented), 'Prince of Orange' (Orange) . Will have to get the Lemon scented Geranium, we have a Lemon scented Verbena, which is Very Very strong scented.Nathan.Ps. Welcome to the forum

Perhaps it is about gravel size. My pussies have long gone to heaven and are not being replaced due to my winter retreat.

cheers... I need my big sister to move house quick! I live in a tiny flat (read jungle + too many house plants) there is no room for anything else... She must get a conservatory and a green house!unless I turn the spare room into a very large green house! lol which my landlady (read mum)...

Many thanks for that. I have noticed that Weedol seems to set it back and I'm probably at fault in not following it up with further applications before it has time to recover. I'll try Roundup.

I've only got a patio out the back of my flat. the area is quite wet and full of snails and slugs.. When I first started out, my patio was a smorgas board of delicacies.. I didn't want to use pesticides or anything like that and 'night patrol' was too much effort.. I came to the conclusion that...