Hi @Greybelle, have you got photos of your tree/the figs? I've got a young Brown Turkey and like @pete says you do tend to get waves of fruit -...
Thanks Aldo, that was vaguely my thinking - but countered with the theory that I'm more likely to be vigilent about picking the blighters off if I...
Belated thanks all for your kind works - between unpacking, discovering that every single tap in the house leaks, and a somewhat poorly timed (but...
Very minor jobs outside at the moment as I'm meant to be concentrating on sorting the house out...but weeded and cleared along the edge of the...
New thread for a new garden!After a Covid-imposed 3 month delay and a week of heavy lifting we are finally fully moved into our house :yay:...
I love Flashing Light, @kindredspirit , it's such a striking colour.Do you replenish your dianthus at all? I find mine do brilliantly for the...
My FIL got me RHS Gardening Month by Month which is brilliant, perfect for dipping in and out of, and some excellent pictures/diagrams. It's a...
Thanks both.Unfortunately we'll never know - I move out next week! I was wondering mainly for my own education, and so I can try to work out...
Thanks all - six Honda Jazz boot fulls of plants now safely in their new home:[ATTACH] I'll start a new garden thread at some point, it's going...
I've got a three year old clematis (Omoshiro) that flowered last month and has generally been looking fantastic until this week. I noticed 2 days...
We got the keys for our new house yesterday :yay: So todays job is ferrying all of my pots and garden bits over. Luckily it's only a 10 minute...
My guess would be impaitence, sorry! I grow outside against a south facing wall and don't usually get fruit until July. I have noticed the hot...
Thanks all, lots of good information there. I had been leaning towards a plastic one, partly from a weight/useage point (I don't anticipate using...
We get the keys for our new house tomorrow (hopefully :fingers crossed::fingers crossed:) and for the first time I'm going to have direct flat...
I'm glad to hear it's not just me - everything I read in books/online talks about how easy rose cuttings are, and I'm over here with my hands in...
Thanks @shiney . I'll keep thinking :scratch:
What sort of pot is best for "adult" chilli plants? For the last couple of years I've just re-used typical 2-3L plastic pots, but they won't fit...
My cosmos plugs arrived this morning so they've been potted on. I forgot about my cosmos seedlings this year, but just as I was resigning myself...
My rose cuttings from last autumn have failed again, for the third year now :wallbanging: The same thing has happened each time; they pull...
Thanks @Arlandria ! Yes, I definitely wouldn't go for this type of arch again - it was cheap and cheerful, and has done the job for us the last...
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