General Gardening Discussion

Biblical gardens are more popular on the continent, some churches have their attempts on the grounds.Maybe pick a small number of useful plants. We get a small number of figs in hampshire. Grapes are fun to do but need netting from birds, we eat the leaves more than the fruit because a local...

Romex – romex"Rompox easy" appears to me to be a PU based product which sets vis dampness, the "Rompox D1" appears to be the water emulsifiable one.As it comes in a vacuum bag I would expose it to as little air and moisture as possible.

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Thanks maybe I'll save my money and try the lemonade!

Great thanks so much to both of you. The bulbs are relatively fresh, so I'll go ahead and plant them (anemone and narcissus) in the coming days, weather permitting. Got to clear some weeds first at the back too! The ground today was not frozen at all and not waterlogged (I weeded the beds in the...

Blast it! You have all now convinced me to try Musa basjoo!

If its due to be really cold then a non heated garage will be fine until you can plant them but they should be fine outside.

That sounds like a good combination

I do have 3 varieties of flowers in their original seed packets in the refrigerator for scarification. They are the only seeds that I had bought though. All of the rest are collected and some of them are more than 6 generations from the original purchased seed starts. I did try making little...

Excellent plan!

My grandparents were married on Christmas day as it wasn't a holiday up here - just another day, and it wasn't a holiday when my Mum [their daughter ] was growing up. I was born in 1957, so I don't remember it not being a holiday, but I knew about it because of my mum and her parents. Hogmanay...

Not by anyone who bothers to look them up.

It was good reading this back it’s such a old post but still packed with information, and we still have some of the thread givers hereI have just bought tie dye

Orange Boy French Marigolds

Monarda Cherry Pops

Flamenco Delphinium

I found a good way is to go in early 9 ish when theyve put out Mothers day flowers or any other mega flower day and theyve been happy to give them away foor free. Btw the white ones are good mini cloches,but grey and black are longer lasting.