Hi thanks for the advice, my location is Carmarthen, South West Wales
Hi, how is the plot progressing; seems we both had our plots at about the same time
Hi folks, I'm considering planting an Autumn crop of potatoes in my allotment (I took posession of it about a month ago and want to "use" the...
I have a similar problem, my allotment is 12 miles from where I live and I get comments from the older gardeners about them never watering their...
Well at last I have an allotment; met the lovely lady who runs the site earlier tonight and was offered a choice of three! I was expecting a show...
Thanks Steve that's great advice
Thanks Kristen, fingers crossed it will be in reasonable condition, l like the comfrey suggestion
It's a ploy; everytime they forecast drought it buckets down and everytime they forecast rain we have hosepipe bans. Stock up on sun cream
Hi As the title suggests I've been provisionally offered an allotment and fingers crossed will confirm this by the weekend. The keepers are...
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] As promised, some pictures of my patch. I tried to upload in their original size but...
In this time of austerity it seems the first thing to get cut from local authority budgets was the pest control departments; hence we are now...
I would resist the temptation to bring about the demise of the trees via skullduggery because that would just give the farmer a case against you....
Hi, please accept my apologies if I'm re-hashing a thread already in existence but I thought that as we all spend time and money looking for...
Ok, well begun is half done..... next thing you need to do is decide where you want to sit out and enjoy your hard work, then plan your beds/...
They certainly look spectacular, stunning colours! I think I'll leave them to the experts for now
Hi Penny, great to meet you; we are basking in a sunny June for the first time in 3 years so it's go, go, go in the garden at the moment, hope...
If you consider that most honeysuckles are "trimmed" by a farmer with their hedge trimmers towed behind their tractors that ruthlessly trash...
There you go, it just goes to show there is no wrong answer and you should run with what you think is best
AA perfectly valid point but should that extend to a plant we've nurtured and is perfectly healthy?
For what it's worth I think it would be a shame to destroy a healthy plant just for aesthetic reasons; after all one of the main reasons we garden...
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