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Great thanks. Research suggests: Use chicken pellets in early spring for nitrogen and soil improvement, then apply potassium fertiliser 4 weeks later to encourage fruiting. Avoid fresh manure, and always use well-rotted or dried pellets to prevent plant damage. For organic gardening, Fish, Blood...

My allotment soil cracks up and hardens when it dries. Awful stuff. Slowly getting it sorted. When I say scortch I also mean wilt but the tatties scorched a bit.

@Allex50 concerned about PUFAs: this might be worth a listen. BBC Radio 4 - Toxic!, A Recipe for Disaster?

When I used to volunteer at the botanic garden, plants from abroad just got put into the appropriate greenhouse - cool, intermediate or warm. Those black tent structures are, I'm sure, structured to avoid people seeing what is being grown under very intensive conditions

I have just read that the EU, Canada and a 12 nation Indo-Pacific block have started talks on closer trade ties in order to see off Trumpy tariffs and tantrums. Carney constructs a mega anti-Trump trade alliance – POLITICO@CanadianLori I know you're not convinced but your Mark Carney is...

Thanks all for your replies. I’ll wait & see what happens in the spring.

I had a look in the perspex shelters by my old garage yesterday. I was thinking of taking some plants that have been overwintering in the house, back to the shelters but there's no room at the moment, there's a lot of tidying to do first. I was happy to see my Anisodontea and Pandorea have...

Thanks for the donations - from Webmaster. The tech guy shall be in discussion with Admin over what needs doing, what can be done and what may not be possible if the updates for some things are no longer available. I won't be involved in the tech side as I know nothing about tech.I don't...

@Pete8 thanks for that. Yes, I had checked the MSF website and saw that there have been maintenance work on February 3 to 5. Last time I changed the battery immediately. This time, I waited and it went back to normal an hour later. I wonder if it has to do with the summertime change in March,...

Another Iris reticulata.

That Escallonia should be a good one I had one in my last garden. Mahonias and Nandinas are slow growing, as you have found, and need more space to show their eventual shape, they are not really hedging plants.Another option, if you don’t mind it being deciduous, is flowering currant, Ribes...

Landscaping has now mostly completed and I'm now able to share pictures of the beds (in alphabetical order). Please let me know your planting suggestions.