I tried growing sweetcorn this year. It's done very well, with several cobs per plant. They look the right size for picking - but how can I tell...
Sorry for unpleasant subject matter - but this is such a problem. My garden is becoming overrun by foxes; they keep having babies under my...
Thank you for advice, Perki and Shiney. I will put some cuttings in vermiculite/mpc mix and also try some starting off in just water. Will keep...
Try using perlite 2nd bassoon :) Half and half mpc and perlitePlease, what is the difference between perlite and vermiculite? Could I do rose...
I get a large box of scaffolders gloves from ScrewFix......very good for brambles.
My two are 2 years old, about 2 feet high.....no flowers yet..
Wish I could start mowing the lawn. I was willing....but the mower had other ideas. Saturday afternoon not a good time to try to contact...
Thankyou Verdun....will move as soon as I can get a trowel into baked dry clay soil.
Splitting and moving - but not ferns.....I have many self-seeded primrose plants which I'd like to move to other areas. Please could someone tell...
1.....Two of a Kind 2.....Primrose Patch 3.....Ahh Sunshine
I had lots at previous house but can't find any in the 3 local garden centres. I've just ordered packet of seed (none in garden centres either)...
Aaah...snow in summer - I want something really invasive for a bare border by greenhouse.
Planted out the broad beans grown from seed today - while it's still just possible to get a trowel into the rapidly hardening clay soil......just...
Thank you for the link, Redwing. I had tried other links which didn't work, but was successful with the one you gave.
I managed to sow pelargoniums, busy lizzie and cucumber during a short lull in terrible wind. But as I need the shed door open - to be able to see...
I shall look out for that in the Almonry, Jenny - who is organising it? Really like the knitted chicks.
Put chicken pellets and compost all round strawberries.....then got just a bit carried away with the chicken pellets so raspberries, gooseberries,...
Thank you for the advice Verdun. I can do chicken pellets :-) ....foxes would love digging in it if you'd said blood, fish, bone, which is a big...
Please, Verdun....what did you feed your large pots of strawberries with?
Weeded, generally tidied up strawberry bed. I had very little fruit last year - but then nor did a lot of people round here.........would a...
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