Your gardenersworld.com wishlist - Page 2

Good to hear!

I would like a scrapbook you can organise into different projects. For example this year I am developing my shade garden and my cottage garden, I would like somewhere to keep planting ideas, articles, inspirational images and products in one place but sorted into specific projects.

Can we have info on raised bed veg growing please? I am disabled and my husband has built me large waist high veg and fruit beds...this uear I had a great crop but the spacing of veg is a problem...I know they can be closer but how close? there must be lots of gardeners out there with mobility problems like me who need info... articles for us would be good,,,

Hello Churchill,

Please have a look at these projects:

http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/projects/fruit-and-vegetables/how-to-grow-early-potatoes/260.html

In this one Monty talks about spacing potatoes, and the different effects you can get from spacing them far apart or close together.

http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/projects/creative-projects/how-to-grow-winter-onions/223.html

Here, Chris is talking about overwintering onions, and the spacing you'd need for those.

http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/projects/fruit-and-vegetables/how-to-grow-peas-from-seed/233.html

This is Monty again, talking about pea seed spacing. In this case he's spacing them as close together as possible.

There are other videos. If you put 'space plants' into the new search engine you will find them. As a general rule, spacing close together will give you smaller crops that can be just as good. However, fungal diseases can be harder to control because the plants have less air in between.

Please do keep looking at the site as we are keen to put up more information for people with mobility problems. If anyone has any areas they'd particularly like to know about, please do share them with us.

Emma.

gardenersworld.com team

Hi, I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but I would really appreciate a section that describes insects, good and bad, with really clear pictures, their life-cycles and ways of encouraging or discouraging hem. For instance, I know what many of them look like but I don't know how to recognise their larvae. I know there are books that you can get but they tend to be either very indistinct pictures or drawings or very technical for use by someone actually studying them, thanks

I agree maggie, perhaps there could be a friends and foes section in the forthcoming wildlife gardening section?  Until that time arrives, I've started a facebook group 'Wildlife Gardening Club'

I am all for wildlife friendly gadens, but when you have a Badger breaking down your fences, digging up the lawn, my patience runs out, we are both pensioners and now open our garden for the NGS, any help with keeping out unwanted animals, cats, etc out would be helpful?

Looking forward to that, Daniel

A lot more people are using herbs in their everyday cooking, so how about a section devoted to herbs and maybe featuring the herb of the month. I grow some old fashioned ones like Lovage, English Mace and Winter Savoury, which you certainly don't see often in the supermarkets. These are all suitable for adding interesting flavours to foods, but I doubt amny people have heard of them, let alone know what to do with them

i'm new to tis site and am loving the ability to search your plant database for  info on plants I am growing. however, I think it would be a good idea to list common pests against the plants on your database.

How about an area on the site/forums where members can do swaps?

Also, why not pick up/expand on more of the areas that aren't covered so much on the programme in its current format? Then the site could feed more into the programme as well. I'm thinking, for example, of viewer trials of various plant & veg varieties. It would be interesting for members to see how others are faring with the same crops, and would draw traffic from the programme to the website and vice versa. The site could log results in a little more detail than programme time allows and might help draw some useful conclusions about differing climate conditions etc countrywide. Seems to me the site is the place to be really interactive with members/viewers, and then use that info to advantage in full on the website (and in the magazine) and in brief on the programme.

I find the video guides very useful but they would be even better if they covered sowing right through to how big the thing gets and then how to harvest it or manage it so you know what you're about to take on.

Also maybe something on different types of gardens e.g. I'd be interested in something along the lines of Geoff Hamilton's ornamental kitchen garden and Alys Fowler's edible garden.

Thanks, it's a fab site