General Gardening Discussion

It's usually me @Spruce

I think from google maps it's still there, imagine the shock driving from London, 1960 Ford Anglia, to be confronted with a candle for lights and a wash in the sink with water heated on the range. It was fun until I had a call from work to say an emergency and get the train back as it was...

Too late! I was confused before you started this!

Too dry maybe, or possibly making buds too early, I find they come into their own in this month, august, so still time.

I think I will have to enter it into a spud growing comp

He never misses when we're in the office and I ask him to pass the biscuits. The last one caught me in the ear!

Thanks @Snorky85 It looks slightly different to when I last went there - in 1956

Excellent Stuartp22 By the way, you can shape your Berberis effectively by simple pruning. Those near horizontal branches can be cut back to upward facing buds to encourage vertical growth

Thanks guys As i think i might well dig it up that could be the start of the digging spot for the koi pond

it's got the worst thing to be flooded out. I feel for all who suffer it.

To be honest I haven't been feeding it enough. Thank you for the wake up call.

We also have a few Leycesteria and have never suffered with mildew. We had some for sale on Open Day.

No harm done and you enjoyed discovering what’s there, you can always try again at a later date just to double check. It’s just with lime if you apply it it’s on for a few years and it’s not something you can rectify easily but a soil test is the only safe option when lime is required.

So do they

Thanks everyone.Definitely a Borage, there’s a flower this morning and definitely not a sunflower )I was so looking forward to the sunflowers but oh well!x

Hi,We keep a bottle sprayer full of water in the greenhouse for spraying the plants, partic some orchids and deliberately let it warm up before use so we do not shock the plants with cold water.It can be a few days before we need to refill the bottle, but we are now wondering if we are...

They're that tough, Woo, I wouldn't think you wouldn't have to knock some concrete up and planting in the hole.................just sit it on the concrete and it'll find a way of growing

I never used to wear protective clothing etc in the garden. My hands became like leather and hard. Since my brush with cancer I have become more aware asto taking care of myself.I have suffered with psoriosis for the past sixty years and since the cancer much of my skin id broken. So I use...

Could that be the buried remains of an old vehicular access/hardstanding, and the thin layer of 'soil' the rotted remains of weeds, windblown leaves/dust etc.? Which could mean the clay subsoil underneath is compacted.If raising ground levels take care to ensure they remain at least 150mm...