I use a heated propagator for a few tender veg. My poly tunnel isn’t heated, so I bring them back inside every night. It is a pain, but it results...
My rhubarb plant has never flowered either. Presumably they only do it when they suspect that the end is nigh.
OH gets bitten to death by any flying insect that bites, and they pretty much ignore me. I must smell disgusting to English and Welsh bugs. I get...
Agreed. I carefully snap the leaves downwards, so as to leave no stub on the stem. Always start from the outside, discarding any yellow leaves....
It’s unlikely that it’s the compost. Slugs and snails can get in anywhere if they want to. Don’t despair! I find the best defence is to keep tiny...
Me neither. But if there are slug or snail trails as well, then it’s either them, or them + the caterpillar. If you only found one caterpillar,...
OK, out it all comes then - eventually!
@Plantminded - I think it’s a pretty common one, but I didn’t plant them, so not sure.
The people that lived here before us really loved geraniums (not pelargoniums btw). I quite liked them and let them be, not realising how invasive...
Did pruning and feeding work for you @BB3 ? It did for me
The RHS says it’s pruning group 8, which means it might not even need it. But if you want to, mid-late spring is the time. I think my previous...
I would say slugs or snails, except that I can see some slug pellets in the picture. Have you been putting them down from the start? I put them...
Also, they prefer neutral or alkaline soil. Just checking in case you have acidic soil.
Once it gets large, it will tend to have flowers just at the top. By then the stems will be thick. My granddad’s method was to cut out one thick...
I live in an exposed place and wind is my biggest problem with newly planted outside beans. I use a homemade portable fence of a double layer of...
I sow my peas and beans in modules or pots because otherwise mice would dig them up and eat them. I have known them to climb up and eat sweetcorn...
That’s a thought @Dovefromabove. I’ll keep a close eye on the healthy ash and if it show signs of struggling, I’ll suggest that idea. It would be...
The tree surgeons have started cutting our dead ash trees down - dieback. Two huge ones and a couple of middle-sized ones. I’m unexpectedly...
We’ve got an aubretia that took 2 years to get pretty big. Haven’t got a campanula though.
The bottom picture looks like mint. Not an expert though, so let’s await further input.
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