Container Gardening

They aren't all bad, I agree, and in fairness they usually give a money off voucher when they substitute stuff - but, how can they be making money by selling stuff so cheap (29p per begonia tuber, or even free in the case of the magnolia etc that I ordered at the start of the year?), and then...

Me to Love them in pots.

I use Vitax Liquid Seaweed once a fortnight but i only use 1/4 of the normal dose. I use full dose on the Bamboos though when the new shoots come through, except on the Zig Zag one which grew straight one year due to the accelerated growth.

All done and hung up as I said in first post. I will see what they look like in flower and I may change them if they look odd. I will post pictures when in bloom.Rusty

Definitely, I keep recutting my coriander anyway as you can get several crops off one pot, especially at this time of year when growth conditions are favourable. Needs plenty of water and a feed wouldn't go amiss. You can also eat the stems and roots of coriander. I woud generally agree with...

Same here!

Anglia Bulbs has done well for me the last couple of years. You might want to take a look at their site and if you like the look then Bookmark for another look next season

Thanks. For the advice guys, ging to try and repot it later today, will report back.I'm guessing that its not dead as its green underneath?

Does anybody know of any good trailing plants for baskets that are bee-friendly?

Thanks Shiney. Both packs of seeds are a year old, so we shall see. Years ago I started "my love lies bleeding" and used them somewhere, they die off naturally with the first frost in October. It is a rare for me to start seeds anymore, just to busy, so this is the only effort I will probably...

made this in 10 minutes thyme bonsai

I always prickout into 1" cell trays (or smaller ones for Petunias then into 1") - then into 9cm square pots once roots have filled cells - saves lots of space, and I agree fewer losses. With the chillies they move from 9cm to 1.5l then to 5 and finally to 10. A lot of faffing about but works...

Nice effort Cheryl. It`s just a pity it didn`t come right in the end. It would have been amazing I`ll bet. No need to have species only though, unless you prefer that. I have a tub with crocus and Iris for early flowers and black tulips for a little later. The heads are only just forming on...

Try this Scrungee.

Hi Val Thank you plus as well the bees love it as it flowers before practically anything else Spruce

He's just got some new Jeans Spruce...bet they would be hard wearing

Depends on the rootstock I've got an apple three on m9 (I think) rootstock which I a dwarfing rootstock and that is in a 55l container. But it will outgrow that eventually so it will either be repotted into a larger container or root pruned or both. Hope this helps Dan

I got an email from Franchi/Seeds of Italy on 25th April suggesting Spring Garlic could still be planted. It seems a bit late to me, but you could always try some - choose a softneck variety and get them in PDQ.

This is definitely Kentia palm - Howea forsteriana Val

Oh, the Mother of All Excuses! Mum, I love you My favourite pastime number 1 is of course gardening, closely followed by number 2, reading gardening books while sipping nice wine. I was gently advised by Mr Selleri that I might want to concentrate more on pastime number one, just for health...