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My Icelandic poppy is in full flower but what do I do with the seed heads, leave them…will the seed come true or deadhead.
It’s Patti’s Plum really gorgeous....
Hi. I have a plant growing in my garden that is identical shape to wheat but it is a different color and was wondering what it could be. There are two clumps under a tree but nowhere else in the...
Harvesting the crop, I noticed a few of the globe radishes, had this deformity.
The crop had grown very fast and the split occurred at the base of the veg, next to the taproot.
TIA....
Can I use grass cuttings on a vegetable plot (4m x 3m) as a type of mulch ?, thanks....
We're having a small building job done, which will mean moving four well-established HT roses. I want to give them the best chance of surviving, though I realise that this probably isn't the best time...
Is there a type of raddish that is burpless that anyone can recommend ?
Anyone know the name of the potato variety on last night's gardeners world.
Not the red one, the other one.
They were grown in pots, if that helps.
I've forgotten....
Anyone on here used them with any success? Getting fed up with holey potatoes.
I have a small strip of land (8m x1m) down the side of my house but it only gets the sun in the early morning and late afternoon. Is there a variety of onion set that would be suitable to grow there....
Hi green fingered Abers, we're going to be getting rid of (digging up completely) two shrubs from our front garden. They are both pretty well established now, so the root system is pretty sturdy and...
My Purple Hebe bush has been badly caught by frost, the bush is about 4 ft. tall in a sheltered border, the leaves are discoloured( brown) and hanging down. Should I :- a) cut it hard back, feed and...
Help!! my new lawn is riddled with worm casts all year long. They are ruining the lawn but obviously I dont want to kill them, just deter them and move them on. There are no problems in neighbouring...
Hi I have just purchased the above named product for my Rose bushes in the garden. I am told it is for pot plants and hanging baskets only. How can that be logical.
Steve...
Many thanks to everyone who replied to my earlier question. I have put mesh down on the raised beds and it seems to have done the trick. However, when I want to grow plants in the raised beds the mesh...
There was an article in The Times last week talking about having a wormery in which you put dog droppings and the worms turn it into garden compost/plant food. It implied that this could not be used...
Hi Green fingered ABers out there ... wonder if you can help, please. In our new-ish (created last summer) front border, ever since it's started being so wet, I am having a constant battle with teeny...
Ordered a variety of onion sets from a company found on the web. Just taken delivery of the first part (noted that the fertiliser ordered at the same time didn't arrive with the first set of onions)....
I’ve changed my avatar but it doesn’t seem to have changed except in my profile so I’ve opened a new thread (hope that’s ok). The pests are at the top of the leave fairly central. They are tine and I...
I noticed hundreds of pin prick size things on the leaves of one my lime tree plants - I thought at first it was dust or something like that Yesterday I carefully wiped down each of the leaves with...
Anyone know why those spikes you can put on bottles filled with water and stuck into the plant pot don't simply drain into the pot immediately (more or less) ? Or maybe they do. I was wondering how...
