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I call everything a pot but the basket they are in is about 10cm deep

Apart from training at the accountant company and working for the shipping company I had always been too bolshy to work for someone and preferred to make my own decisions (and mistakes) so have always worked for myself.Car cleaning round at the age of eight, market stall in the East End of...

The worse bit about computers is that there is a few ways of doing things to do the same job, you have to find the easy and best way for you to do what you want to doYou can't be to bad as you have joined this forum, if you had help may be you could ask that person if they can help you with...

Without seeing it, I would say be ruthless as a rule. I've spent more time than I like to admit unwinding clematis stems to try and save more of a plant when the best option would have been to just mercilessly hack it a few feet from the ground. I've just done the same with "freckles", which is...

Wow 5 years flew by

Thank you Infradig, I had no idea about Determinate and Intermediate potatoes, shows how much I have to learn .

That's interesting. I could let the row between my front garden and next door grow taller. The front of the house hedge will need to be less than 4 ft high so I can safely get my car out. There's no pavement in front of my house. Thanks for the suggestion

Both London Zoo and Whipsinade are great.

Mine is starting to bloom ...

That's interesting 101, Do "robins" eat your pre-soaked dried mealworms ? Would make things a lot easier.

Sowed some more seeds today, think i sowed 9 trays. Some in plugs, some in trays. So see what happens.Sowed 2 packets of geraniums, the seeds look like more droppings, only get about 15 in a packet. Where opposed to marigolds, where I must get 100-200 seeds.

A bit odd for new turf to act that way only after a short time. You've probably got drainage issues with the clay soil being a contributing factor and also if its a new build then the soil is not very good under that. Then you have the north facing and what looks like a down pipe running into...