General Gardening Discussion

Thankyou @Escarpment , that is interesting to know.

So helpful guys Thank you

Plenty of Gorse in flower round here during the winter, bit of a devil to mow the lawn round if they are in your garden though, ask me how I know.........................

Hi in the plastic greenhouse will be fine do that now , check the pots for slugs any weeds etc .. buy some gardening fleece for when we have minus temperatures .. I wont water mine until end of February/ March ,, those huge roots hold lots of water …. And no trimming the leaves just remove the...

Cafe au Lait still flowering … all these flowers are from one plant/tuber, I think the tuber is going to be pretty big when I dig it up!

Yes - that's the problem Even where I am, it means darker conditions for kids going to school in the middle of winter, and of course - it's later the further north you are. Coming back isn't quite the same because of traffic being lower, and also because everyone is leaving at roughly the same...

Yes- not sure how viable the lower corms will be once you remove that top one, although it's mainly the invasive montbretia that's more problematic rather than the cultivated varieties IME. I've generally just split large clumps, rather than removing corms, which is fairly easy if access is...

Hi,These rotavators once seen aren't easily forgotten are theyIt's about 67 years ago I first saw one of the big Howard's; a retired neighbour used to be a market gardener and had a large greenhouse in a large allotment; he and his wife were about to go on two weeks holiday and he asked me...

Normally, we'd have 250 crowns like that at the moment, but they've been ploughed up to make way for a tractor path. The new ones will go in in the spring. Do you do food parcels, LAO?

I just had a quick look and it sounds a nice variety. It seems it was a chance seedling so it will seed about but isn't a very aggressive spreader.

Something like this . It should be possible to make something similar at home if you are at all handy. It would certainly make sieving out larger stones much more efficient.

Absolutely - yes.

If plants in a greenhouse, you can use a Flea Puffer from a pet shop.Close all windows and doors, set it off and don't go into the greenhouse for at least 3 hours, then open everything and Voila! all little pests eliminated for a long time. Works a treat.

Update... I've had the lights on above my rocket seedlings but they haven't really grown at all. The light bay is only about 6" above the rockets too, they've been on for around 12-14 hours a day too. Any other suggestions? I've heard the Tom Thumb variety around good for growing inside during...

Equisetum has two types of growth, the first in spring, as you describe, which are structures containing spores, and the second in summer when green shoots emerge. It may be too late for these shoots to emerge now but I thought that glyphosate would destroy the young emerging shoots of spring...

I've had plants [clematis] from renowned, trusted sellers which have died because of those things. It isn't always obvious unless you poke about in there [not always possible] and in the case of clems, they aren't tiny slips - they're at least a couple of years old and in fairly large pots, and...

Don't we all!

They look like that through most of summer here too @flounder Just slug fodder. I gave up on them a long time ago.

I wouldn’t have thought of that so thank you.