If you make a moveable cover sort of table shaped with open sides you can pop it over if the forecast says it is going to be really rainy. Here in...
If you have the room you could make leaf mould for future years by collecting leaves and putting them in black bags with a few holes in and...
Hi Dave, So if you are going ahead with it I would keep it in the pot in a sheltered place until the weather improves i.e. gets warmer and then as...
Bear in mind that the star jasmine is not a true jasmine but Trachelospermum jasminoides. Both can be heavily scented apart from J. nudiflorum...
Congratulations Nigel, I retired 3 years ago next week and have never been so busy. It looks like you are already on the right track for growing...
Thanks all. I am in Cornwall. I have grown sunflowers before and last year did microgreens with bird seed but they were the smaller black seeds....
Hi all, I like to grow sunflower seeds for microgreens and would like to grow a few plants in the flower garden that will give nice big seeds to...
Mostly the same things as last year. Melon was a disaster last year but I'm hoping for better weather this year. I'll also grow white turnips but...
Yes! I did it once with my Mum when she was alive and stuck upstairs in bed. She had lots of trees and shrubs and a feeder and we regularly saw...
Hi Guy's, yes I have also got cottager's kale grown from seed this year. It seems to be a lot more slug resistant than the curly kale. But the one...
I'm considering getting one (probaly Taunton Deane) but they are not cheap. Is it worth growing?
I sympathise with her, it is much harder to learn new things when you are older. I am struggling with the modern Greek alphabet at the moment.
As an ex Grammar school girl I can code shift from standard English to broad Cornish as spoken by my older relatives. (not the Kernow language -...
and Eglos in Cornwall. Celtic?
As someone who studied geology one that gets me is epicentre - what's wrong with centre?Quote from George Orwell:. “- Never use a metaphor,...
We don't do a lot for Christmas - don't do presents but we do have lights and decorations. My grandchildren were down at the weekend and we took...
I have found the same with parsley. My compost is always full of seeds but last year I had masses of parsley seedlings amongst the flowers. They...
I have Canary bird and it is not a ground cover rose. Mine is 20 years old and about 4 to 5 feet tall. It flowers once quite early with semi...
Looking at your photo, another alternative would be Iris siberica. It would like a north facing garden and a clay soil.
I have Dierama, definitely use plants or grow from seed, which is what I did. They are not easy to get going but once they do you will have them...
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