Yep, seed is the cheapest. And if you ask me, the least hassle and most satisfying. Now is a very good time to sow a new lawn, with warm soil and...
Any ripe fruit releases ethylene. It's the plant's signal to set seed and die back. The riper the better. So before composting your fruit that...
My biggest garden equipment problem is storage. Not the big stuff, but the little stuff you just seem to accumulate as a gardener. Pen knife,...
Ziggy - does leaving them on the plant to dry work if you overwinter your chilli plants?
There's blight warnings a-plenty flooding into my inbox at the moment. If you haven't got it yet, and still have toms and spuds on the go, I'd...
Ermmmn. Not sure washing spores and using different paper and pointing it west to catch the right Karma and will stop the fungus once it's alive...
Same here. I had a foxglove put on a second flush - I'm SURE they're not supposed to do that! I've just got some roses coming into flower again...
Or use them to make jars of home-made salsas, chutney, sauces etc. That way you can use up your other veg gluts too - toms, courgettes etc. Oooh...
I just chuck them straight from the plant into a plastic tub in the freezer. Seems to do the trick. Or you can pickle them. I do that at the end...
The Arcade Fire are sublime. Their new album isn't even as good as the first two, but is still breathtaking, and so much better than 99.9% of...
x Cupressocyparis leylandii needs to be classified as a notifiable weed. It's truly horrible stuff. If I was in that neighbourhood I'd just...
Er no. monroi is very popular. It's Brachyglottis, too, not Senecio. That said, I'm not sure it is monroi.
littlegardeners - if it was blight the entire plant would turn brown / black, rot and die in a matter of days, or even quicker. They would look...
Just chuck 'em in pots and leave 'em then, Pete? Ok, cheers. Will give it a whirl.
2 - Brachyglottis monroi
Give it a go and see what happens, Lolly. I've grow lots of veg in part shade. They don't do as well, but as long as there is decent light and...
Yes, DEFINITELY keep your chilli plants indoors over winter. Better crops, much earlier. 1) When the weather starts cooling over the next couple...
I've just bought a big mixed pack of green manure. Rye, Vetch, Italian Ryegrass and Forage Pea. Lovely. Who needs fertiliser!
"possible attraction of unwanted visitors to the bedroom" I've had terrible trouble with that in my time. It had nothing to do with open...
Well I've just had some 'Garden Pearl' and 'Minibel' basket toms for lunch. Chopped into a cheese n ham toastie, with roughly chopped basil....
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