Thanks very much JWK and Pete!The plant seems to have corrected itself over time. The weird mutant tomato either fell off or was removed by my...
Hi everyone,One of my tomato plants has gone very odd. The growing shoot seemed to taper off into one or two enormous flowers, each at the end...
Hello and Happy New Year to everyone!I recently had a water softener fitted. I was curious to learn whether this was suitable for my...
Thanks both! Here are some pics.I've just relocated it to a place that will have fewer cold draughts, it's now in a living room which is bright...
Hi everyone,I was keeping a calathea (about 1.5 foot tall, a zebra one I think) in a cool, dark room. It wasn't doing too well and after a quick...
Hi all.My mum has come back in from picking elderberries and is worried about some that seem exactly like elderberries but have larger stones...
Hi all,My mum and I recently found some lovely yellow wild plums, and my mum made them into lovely jam. No dramas.A week later I found loads...
Thanks everyone! Really helpful. I had no idea that the green stem thing was actually the leaf, or that they'd die back at this time of year- I...
Evening everyone! I've got a codiaeum excellent that I bought a while ago in a garden center without knowing what it was. A while ago, all but...
Hi everyone, I had a go this year at growing a few different kinds of giant allium from seed I collected last year. I saw some advice online...
So yesterday we popped to the garden center to buy a couple of things and ended up coming out laden down with some brilliant tomato plants we...
Thanks Sheal. Here's hoping I've not killed off half the lawn. I did only put a tiny squirt on each dandelion! Fingers crossed. We used some of...
Hi everyone, A while back I decided it'd be a great idea to stick some crocus and other bulbs around the borders of my lawn (fritillaria and...
Thanks JWK, really useful! So I sprayed my toms with Bordeaux Mixture about two weeks ago, and it definitely seems to have slowed down the...
Argh! Growing some grafted toms in my greenhouse, have been really impressed with the crop and how strongly the plants have grown, but recently...
Thanks for all your ideas :) Lolimac, that bedding looks lovely, I'd never have guessed it was in guttering! The guttering just arrived today, so...
Morning all, A friend sent me a great email full of good ideas, one of which was this: [IMG] I have a whole section of very boring fencing...
That's a lovely plant, but afraid it's not this one (although weirdly it does fit the description perfectly!)I think after a lot of googling it...
Sorry I'm a complete fool. The pics ARE of a clematis, I took pics of the wrong thing. (I'll try to remove them from the post...!)The one...
Afternoon everyone :)I'm just about to start pruning a few things but there's a plant in our garden that we have no idea what it is. I'm afraid...
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