Wow. Far more advanced than any of mine - today (if I'm lucky) there will be the ceremonial picking of the first ripe tomato.
I'm not even going to try and answer your question, purely and simply because I don't know, but I 3 years ago I bought some really cheap...
Yeuk! It's bad enough having to garden on sandy soil and finding the revolting little blighters crawling about everywhere, but when the queens and...
Well, it was like this y'see. I've got 8 compost bins (disguised as 'beehives') scattered around my garden and, earlier in the year, I emptied...
Lily of the Valley, wisteria, honeysuckle, roses, dianthus, stocks and nemesia 'Cotton Candy' (a vanilla ice-cream/sweet shop smell). I love the...
Actually that should read 'anyone can do it' not 'any one .....' :heehee:
Tis easy - if you have one plant, it's a chilli but if you've more than one, then you grow chilli plants each of which have several fruits on them...
Hi Nick. There could be several reasons why your lettuce are bitter. 1 They could be getting too much sun/heat which causes even...
I'd go for borders every time. I've got them on 3 sides of my lawn but every one of them consists of slow 'in and out' curves for interest. If...
The initial idea was to get the boys to grow fruit and veg which they could then eat - like that was going to happen - flowers were 'Plan B'! I...
Thanks Marley, I was hoping you'd say that!
The Prep school of which I'm a Governor, recently started something they called 'A Child's Dream Garden' (the area is - or will be when it's...
I can only add what I've always said to my daughters, 'You can only do your best'.
Would I still eat meat if I had to catch and kill it? Yes. Back-in-the-day, my Grandad was a butcher and slaughtered his own animals. As a...
What I want to know is .... why, if you want to nail jelly to a wall (although I can't quite see why you would) it might involve a bit of...
Bearing in mind I don't pretend to be any sort of expert - but I'm thinking that if you're making a 'lid' to go over one or more of the beds...
My neighbour and I have 'an arrangement' - when I can no longer reach to pinch out the top of my beans, my neighbour encourages the growing tips...
My Grandad used to use milk to spray plants as a treatment for powdery mildew - according to his 'little book' (which I've since inherited -...
Where I live - 'out in the sticks' - whatever passing trade there might be would be negated by the narrow lanes leaving nowhere for people to stop...
Harper - a typical, means absolutely nothing, American name. Along with the names of their boys you'd cringe if you didn't stop and realise that...
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