As ever an early bird! Nice shots Woo:ccheers:
Had two Smith Period warnings, but no sign of infection so far touch wood! Last year signs of blight appeared on 14th August so cut off tops and...
Read this Andy - http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=517
Derris, if you can still get hold of some Freddy. Never had any great prob with them on ours.
See this - http://www.preservingyourharvest.com/DryingFennel.html
Prune it back into green wood and it should recover and put out more side shoots.
Keep feeding and watering. You'll probably haveto keep this up for about another 6 to 8 weeks or as long as the plants are putting on growth....
That's great news Jack :ccheers:
So sorry to read your tale Jack. It wouldn't be so bad if the animal who did it had been caught, though it still wouldn't improve the situation...
Had a couple of oleanders though they were killed by frost. All parts of the plant are toxic - even the smoke from it if you burn it.
And.... Thanks to Marley Farley; for without her work and time doing all the boring admin there wouldn't be any photo comps for us to enjoy. Thanks!
Just home from 7 days up in the highlands so got a lovely surprise when I checked in to GC this evening. Thanks for the votes and congrats to all...
You'll get away with letting the occasional one grow to marrow size.
Just lifted the last two of ours. Being a cheapskate I planted Tesco garlic last year and again this year. What was interesting was that the...
I had a large area of gravel to manage at mum in law's and found Pathclear was working out expensive so turned to Pistol as although the initial...
Very possibly, as Loli says, a lack of water may have contributed. An old preventive remedy is to scatter grass cuttings in the trenches when...
Once upon a time we used to freeze quite a lot, but it became too much work and took up too much time at a time of year we were both very busy in...
It is expensive Autumn but it lasts for years. Mine is now about 7 years old and still in perfect condition. Yes, you can water through it, and...
If there isn't a local 'apple day' event then you can send samples to the Brogdale Collection and they'll identify them. It does cost though.
You could support low cloches covered with fleece with small bore plastic water pipe. Larger cloches would require something more substantial; I...
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