General Gardening Discussion

Yes I have access to the side of the wall that allows me to get to the rear of the flower bed up on the wall and the treat the fence, which is a chore!!! Gave that fence 4 coats of the new colour! The so called 5 year version and sure it is blistering with the sun!The Johnsons Blue is very...

That worked for me too. I hacked it down to the ankles but never got around to digging it out. It came back perfectly healthy. The benefits of being an idle gardener. PS. Clean your secateurs before you touch another fuchsia or you'll spread it

I'd not thought of this and you might be right. We have three small water features in out garden and have always had a lot of frogs, who eat loads of slugs and snails. Thinking about it we haven't seen many frogs this year, nor was there much frogspawn in the ponds.Time for a rethink on how...

Phew I won't need to move it then.

My Water melons are growing and have been since I planted them out, I think there could be a bit more going on rather than just temperature TBH.I see water melon as fairly tender, possibly more tender than squash? Its not been getting as low as 10 c overnight here though for any length of...

I didn’t end up buying it. I’m possibly looking at something else.

Yes I wondered if that might be the case hence why I was reluctant to snip them all off immediately. Thank you for the advice

You need to cut off a lot of the leaves, its the leaf stems that make them more buoyant.

Yes, prick them out and plant into individual pots and put them in a sunny sheltered position until they get established. You can either grow them on in the pots until next year and plant out in the spring or plant out into your beds late summer/early autumn (I've had success doing both)

Vine weevil? Possibly a bit early in the season for grubs but if the plant was hot-house raised, the life cycle may be earlier than normal. Is the plant firmly anchored in the soil?

hi ricky, thank you for your reply, i am very grateful,yes, i do tend to cut the rest of the grass quite short- in answer to your question

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I'll pinch out the top then as it's hitting the underside of my conservatory roof. Thankyou

Good point I only recently planted it out - if it's roots haven't yet ventured into my acid soil, the compost in the pot was just MPC, so that may be affecting it. The source plant is growing in a garden less than a mile away, with nothing done to the soil. So I had high hopes. Yours is a...

If you take cutting then do it straight away if you can, meanwhile put them in water. I would plant it in a bigger pot if you can't plant it in the ground.

Ash yes I hadn't really taken in the fact that it's a very large leaved variety. When they are that vigorous a cultivar it would be a never ending battle to keep it in check. If it had been kept under control when it was much younger you might stand more chance.

I wouldn’t dare pollard our quince. The bark split is almost completely around the trunk and quite low down, I’m amazed it’s still alive to be honest.Yes, our medlar is quite an architectural shape as well. A fabulous shape but very sprawling and low. It does make me chuckle when I hear them...

I seem to remember my father telling me he used to eat Tiger nuts. I have never seen them or tasted them. Let us knowhow you get on with them.

Nothing to do with gardening but when off work ill I watched a beginners guide to painting and it was about the seaside and the tutor said if painting birds always paint odd numbers 3 or 5 I do not know why this works better than even numbers but it always does he said so this relates well to...

Sarcococca confusa (sweet box) and other types are quite slow growing.