Thanks folks for your comments. I suspect it is a combination of all these things. You may be right @pete I think that particular root is from...
The last row of Sarpo Mira lifted today.[ATTACH]
Volunteer day yesterday, sadly I had to dig up a whole bed of azaleas, all bar one had succumbed to the summer drought. The close proximity of a...
Lifted the final row of maincrop spuds this morning. Some of them are enormous, I just hope they are OK inside. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]Very...
Acers, are mostly slow growing and can be kept small enough., or for evergreen something like Pinus Mugo. [ATTACH]
Yesterday I went to the Allotments but only to harvest again as we were going to SD'S for Sunday lunch. I had planned to go agin today and lift...
Oh yes it could, you really want Farage???
My Uncle had a smallholding in Selsdon South of Croydon. He too grew tomatoes in soil in a semi-mobile greenhouse. The main body was on rails,...
The Japanese say "flowers are ephemeral, so prune for structure first". That said I agree with others none of your plants look out of control.
The Saxa salt tub had a saying on it."Eat a sack of salt with a friend, you'll have a drinking partner for life,"I think you would be sick or...
The other issue with pots is it can be moist top and bottom but dry in the middle. This is common especially with peat free composts. We were...
Got to the Allotments yesterday, just to harvest a few things, as I didn't want to be out too long. I was reflecting on the irony of picking...
I find using the leverage of a mattock helps start getting pallets dismantled. Not much gardening for me the last few days. My wife had a...
Interestingly, I have just been reading an article in the RHS The Garden, about fungi, the author comments that many people are overly concerned...
Definitely fruit oven veg for value, and benefits from being really fresh. You could try Raspberries along one long edge and a couple of fruit...
Look again I did say windows :biggrin:
Put fresh Horse Chestnuts around windows and doors to keep spiders from coming in for winter
@NigelJ , yes, I spent an hour watering all the pots and some of the more newly planted things in the borders I'm sure the wind is drying things...
As discussed on other threads, one issue is that so many seeds all come from the same source no matter the name on the packet. T&M seem to own a...
@Retired , As you are finding, the old saying Nature Abhores a vacuum is so true. Bare soil will always sprout weeds unless you can cover it to...
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