Sorry this is a longish read! > New to veg gardening this year, I am about to order a batch of winter veg. plants. Is it safe to put them in...
Brilliant site - thanks Stony! Looks like just what I'm after.
If you try the stuff I suggested, the smell will undoubtedly also reach your neighbour's nostrils (unless you live well away from other houses)....
Can't find anywhere on site where it tells me how member status is arrived at. What distinguishes a Junior member from Member or a Senior? Is it...
:cnfs:I know this is only vaguely gardening-related, but is anyone else still seeing swallows? We had a flock of about 40 around our garden this...
Thanks, guys - I'm on my way! By the end of today all leaves and stalks will be on the burning heap!
I have some glasss just like that! I'll give it a try on the windowsill - still nothing happening with any of mine; may have to take one out of...
I live out in the country and we have a persistent problem with badgers, not pooing ( although they do that as well) but digging around the...
Can anyone tell me about lifting potatoes? I have a nice little crop of about 20 Maris Piper plants - I have lifted a few pots. from just under...
Thanks, folks. The example in the link doesn't look too hard to build and the materials should be easy to come by. Maybe next spring!
Thanks for the tip, MB! I'll get down to my local Lidl's for supplies of bulbs etc - cheaper than garden centres!
Have you considered the impact of our weather on your mixed tropical border if we get another year like this one? I prefer your ideas of a pond...
My caulis and sprout plants were demolished by caterpillars while I was on holiday! Next year I want some protection for them but have to watch...
I'm so pleased to see your carrot pic ! I grew some for the first time this year - in deep, raised containers, to try to avoid the dreaded...
Thank you, kristen and freddy. I shall dig up the glads when they have finished and died back and over-winter them under cover. When you say...
Thanks, all, for replies. How big are these avocado plants, then? Presumably from the size of the fruit they're not small. I imagine them about...
Hi, MOL! I have done the same this year with hollyhocks - got a nice crop of 'Nigra' going - black hollyhocks (isn't that word a beggar to...
I have had several glads in a strip of border for 3 years now and they don't seem to be increasing. Do the bulbs produce 'babies' like daffs and...
My best buy at a boot sale was a copy of the RHS Encyclopaedia of Plants and Flowers. £35 pounds-worth for a fiver!! Full of beautiful pics and...
Hi, All. :cnfs: Is it possible to grow an avocado plant / tree(?) from the stone inside? At the beginning of July, I planted six (separately)...
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