Thanks everyone! Sweetpeas - your course sounds great, I hope you enjoy it. And thanks for the info plant1star and clueless1. I shall get...
Thank you for the suggestions Fidgetsmum! I'll do a bit more research on open learning. I know the RHS only do horticulture. Unfortunately my...
Hi everyone! I'm considering a change of career and taking up garden design. I think I know the basics but I'd like to do a study from home...
Well done Hel, good haul! Tescos are doing half price Unwins seeds at the mo - not a huge range but they've got the basics if anyone's interested.
:thku: Thanks guys, I'll do just that!
Hi guys! I'm growing brassicas for the first time this year: a few each of purple sprouting, kale, spring and winter cabbages. I've kept them...
Could it be slug damage? I'm having a go at growing a winter squash for the first time this year and was really proud of the first fruit which got...
Renting a house and having a garden of my own to look after for the first time, and realising it was actually quite fun! Now I wouldn't be...
Thanks, I shall do just that!
We have a native willow, I think it's a grey willow, that is getting too big for its boots. It's about 10ft tall and the trunk is about 4"...
We dug a pond last spring, about 6m by 5m. Because the soil is already heavy clay we just dug the hole then ran the digger over it a few times...
We found our first frogspawn last week! I'm preparing for a big tidy up, waders 'n' all! It's going to be messy!
Thanks Pete! Not for growing outdoors then? T&M said it's an HP :scratch: S x
I've seen polianthes tuberosa advertised in the T&M plant catalogue and they make it sound good: "intensely fragrant blooms... at almost any time...
We've got girls too! They arrived a few months ago. They're not technically ours but they are all retired so it looks like their owner won't...
Most of our swallows have gone too, just one family left with a second brood of babies still in the nest. You do worry that they won't be strong...
Last night I dreamt my fiance (yes, a man!) had volunteered to have a friend's baby when they weren't able to have any. I was present at the...
Don't worry Iain! It usually goes quiet at this time of year as a lot of the small birds are moulting ready for the winter, so they lie low as...
We found this little chap on the floor of the barn. He's a brown long-eared bat and very cute! We put him in a box during the day and put him...
Something I learnt this year that I thought I would share with any newbies out there: If it looks like a plant has completely dried out and died,...
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