General Gardening Discussion

As an ex-railwayman and now involved with a Heritage one, I strongly recommend you do Not set them in concrete, because eventually the sleepers Will rot, despite being previously treated.

When I purchased my general thought process was: What area does each Wattage bulb cover? Too low a wattage doesn't cover very much. What would be the price/benefit equation for, say, 2 x 400W rather than 1 x 800W. Clearly 2 x 400W allows running one lamp when you only have a few plants to...

That is really interesting. Imagine you going off on a quest to find all that out. Impressive. I tend to use a mix of stuff. I have growmore, miracle grow and tomato feed. I have sulphate of ammonia for a quick boost when needed. I remember i had a friend who swore by phostrogen but I haven't...

Just back from Aldi and they didn't have any of the product in stock. They had all the other stuff, multi purpose, soil conditioner, bark chip but not the 1 I was looking for to test again. I wonder, as told their customer services I was visiting my local store today, if they hid it. That sounds...

I watched the butterflys for about 20 hours, I started running around like a fool trying to buff them tho I did mannage to kill two with a direct shot from my spray bottle to knock them down, then a size ten boot to finish the job:WINK1:the bicarb has just been posted again here, not sure...

Well the branches go bare like any deciduous tree but it flowers very early, last year it was in March and it got caught by frost, which ruined the flowering. This year there is no sign of flowers yet due to the colder weather, so hopefully it might be better and later. Apparently the fruits...

That's a good idea, as long as you make sure you don't exceed the maximum towing load/force and start busting the carI once had an old car that I knew was going fail its MOT miserably. I was going to put it on my land and then SORN it, and use it for this very purpose, but then for some...

Thanks Alice, I am going to leave them where they are and I agree it looks tidier to cut them short, so I will cut them short!

Plenty of water Col in dry times and water at night where it will have time to perculate to the root. Good luck. G

Bumping the thread@jennywrenHave a look at this thread from last year. Lots of great ideas and lots to choose fromSpruce

I heard anecdotal evidence of rat swarms when I was a child. I was never sure if it was true so am interested to hear about this. If you google 'mass migration rats' some stuff comes up as well.

I have two clumps of crocosmia, given me by the gardener I hired to landscape my garden in 2000. He had a huge amount in the back of his van that he'd cleared out of someone's garden a couple of days before. Seeing I was starting from scratch, plantwise, he asked if I'd like some. They got...

I did a few test patches on Tuesday and wasn't expecting to see any improvement for a few weeks, but after one day I noticed a slight improvement and even in the dark just now I can see a real improvement (will post pics later if I get home before dark)

That's the problem with reading items published on the internet that are heavily weighted one way or the other by interested parties. We, the general public, don't have the opportunity (time, experience, education etc.) to sort the wheat from the chaff with regard to these matters.Most of...

We have since corresponded Caj xx As our mentor is not really with us any more, perhaps someone else .... Marley? Strongy? can help here. As to my situation two plus months ago, I threw away two of the stems and potted up the main one. It now has a nice 'crop' of hair ... sorry leaves ......

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