Angry Gardener

Coralbat - I have used garden centres for years, and would not be without them. You will note that this is the first time that I have got "fizzing mad". That said like any other shop, its always a case of buyer beware - their business is selling as many things as possible, but often forget the other thing which is attracting customers back. Dying plants do not attract trade - word soon gets around.

Check the plants you buy, if they look good and healthy with new shoots forming, in compost that does not look as if its been newly potted, then they should be fine. With perrenials even the past their sell by date can recover with a little tlc.

Pete - too right I am sooo very glad that we live in a temperate zone (climate I mean :D ) , extremes are rare.

 

Our local GC has a lifetime guarantee on all of its plants...

If the plant dies.. ever... then the guarantee has run out.


Where's the logic in that ????

But they are the best looked after in this area.

 

Thanks all for your good advice. I live within a mile of three garden centres. Which i think are owed by three different families. Anyway i do enjoy a sunday afternoon wandering round them. But to grow plants from seed would be wonderfull.

I did try radish and lettuce in a pot but wasn't very successfull.

 

You can grow from seed without a greenhouse Coralbat you just need to wait for the light levels to come up a bit - and sow in a covered propogator close to the house wall. I grow grow all kinds of bulbs - spring ones planted in the autumn and indeed tubers in a clay soil ncluding dahlias, though this last, I lift after frost blackening - cos they will rot :( .