Not sure about heirloom varieties, but I agree most bought apples are not great - they all have the same homogenous taste - Cox being an exception...
I had similar experience with GP. The soil here is slightly acidic and my borders have good soil. Like you I planted 3 x 9cm plants - they barely...
After building works in 2019 I had loads of grey and orange clay to deal with in the front garden where I wanted to plant. I followed this advice...
The best thing to improve clay soil (as i have here in Essex) is organic matter. Home-made compost or some sort of rotted manure. Best of all is...
C. pendula is a wild form of grass. The main problem is when the seed blows about and you end up with them all over the garden and sometimes in...
carex pendula maybe If it is I find it very invasive
I grow watercress in the waterfall header pool of my pond and I do eat it. Flukes are only a problem if cattle are drinking the water upstream - I...
Maybe a euphorbia of some sort. If you snap a leaf and there's a milky sap, then probably euphorbia. The sap can be a skin irritant, so wash hands...
Looks like Pear Root Galls to me
Maybe some variety of spirea
I tend to agree with perki - we've had so much rain and the pot isn't on pot feet to help drainage, so it could be the roots have been sitting in...
If red is something you would go for then maybe sanguisorba would work for you. They have a light and airy disposition. I have S Tana which is lovely.
I've not grown V hastata, but do grow bonariensis, rigida and Bampton. Bampton may be another variety worth considering. I bought a small one in a...
It may be Carex pendula which is quite invasive, but I'm not 100% sure
Almost certainly an aphid. Spraying with your hose should shift them.An alternative would be a Pyrethrum spray (which is extracted from...
If you have any old net curtains, they're great for providing shade. A cheap alternative is builders Scaffold Netting. Much easier to hang it on...
Are you sure they're surfinias? AFAIK they don't have tubers. I've grown them many times over the years, but never seen a tuber
I leave nature to deal with aphids too. Almost every year my runner beans get covered in blackfly but the cavalry always arrives to deal with them...
From my experience, as I said previously, after a few months the purple stains vanish completely. Maybe your paving is different to mine. I hope...
Wood pigeons all over the place around here so it's a constant annoyance. I've found that they do stain, but the stain eventually vanishes of its...
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