After all the fretting over the summer, we are now enjoying a pretty good crop. Lots still ripening on the plants, slowly but then that’s better...
That image and text refers to Craetagus laevigata, I thought you had bought Craetagus persimilis? It may be the different varieties have the same...
The first photo (ending 212) is the prunifolia or broad leaf Hawthorn. The other is the simple Hawthorn. I haven’t got my books handy but I think...
I’ve kept them outside overwinter before I had the options of a greenhouse or cold frame. Just kept them tucked in somewhere sheltered, mine were...
We just put banana skins in the compost but I may try @Obelix-Vendée water pot method. Does it get very smelly?
I’ve used them , good plants and well packaged
I usually roast the tomatoes with a bit of garlic and seasoning and then whizz up, skin and all
Use “perennial tulips” as your search term as that’s the phrase nurseries and garden writers often use for ones which are more reliable at...
I’ve used supermarket garlic a couple of times in the past and I’ve always had a crop but the cloves are usually smaller than those of the...
We have lots of single yellow and very few orange ones. I wonder if the orange are less vigorous? I let them all go to seed but never seem to get...
Yes,usually it’s colour and appearance that may differ. Always worth a try growing from collected seed, all it takes is a bit of compost and space.
We used a Rhino recommended supplier to install ours. Worth every penny. His partner was unwell so the chap did it all himself so it took around 6...
I would have thought they would naturally start to entwine where they meet so my guess would be yes
Yes after three years you should be fine removing the posts. Re the frames, do you feel you still need them? they are only needed until the growth...
We learnt all this at college @katecat58 The Latin species has a capital letter but the name for a (naturally occurring) variety doesn’t e.g....
My supermarket squished are also fruiting really well now and still a delicious flavour (saying still as this years are second generation from the...
Mum was into blue, every shade of
My mum as always painting her terracotta pots but the paint inevitably peeled off. I suspect it’s because of the damp seeping through the pot from...
We had around 60mm over the weekend. Yesterday was supposed to be rain all day, started as an Amber warning then yellow, but it fizzled out mid...
We’ve finally started harvesting from our tomatoes. A small punnet from my supermarket squished seeds with lots more starting to ripen plus 4...
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