artjak

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2 plants for large pot

Posted: 11/04/2013 at 14:47

I aquired a large old terracotta pot this week (40 cm wide, 30 cm high - inside measurements). I would like to plant Agapanthus Loch Hope as it is pretty hardy with 2 Heucheras. Will this combination work as far as soil needs? I would mix grit, sharp sand and general compost with a lot of pebbles at the bottom. Any advice very welcome.

Jet Stream finally moving up

Posted: 09/04/2013 at 20:50

Wow, 21 degrees; I'm ironing my shorts

Perennial project the forum way

Posted: 09/04/2013 at 20:49

Salino, what a lovely garden

japanese knot weed

Posted: 09/04/2013 at 20:43

Hyper C F is right, it is very serious and you need to do proper research on it.

What has happened???

Posted: 09/04/2013 at 20:41

Oakley witch; Am doing the compost course in about 10 days time; am so excited! I will post a thread about it afterwards

GardenIng jokes

Posted: 09/04/2013 at 20:22

A wild life joke;

How do you tell a weasel from a stoat; a stoat is stoately different from a weasel - a weasel is weasaly distinguishable from a stoat.

Used Compost?

Posted: 09/04/2013 at 20:18

I just learnt today that vinegar works on the slugs, snails I just hurl into the back field. In fact I want to introduce a new sport for the Olympics 'Snail Hurling'

The compost heap needs to be turned every now and then, since it is a heap rather than a bin, I suggest using a garden fork. Then you can see what is going on inside it. In a week or so I am going on a course to become a 'compost master' so any info I get I will post.

Our own A to Z of our Gardening

Posted: 09/04/2013 at 20:11

stephani3; I'll say it again - your link doesn't work!

Plants beginning with 'C' hmm.. so many more than those beginning with 'B'

Carrots! I love growing them and I love even more defeating the carrot root fly.

Cauliflowers; I've grown them once but they were tiny, then the neighbour who gave me the seedlings told me (several months later) that they were designed to be tiny!

Courgettes, easy and fun to grow (I'm sensing a vegetable theme here)

Grew Cucumbers for the first time last year and was suprised to find them...well... odd; they were sort of warty on the skin, but I was told by younger and wiser people that that is how home grown cucumbers look.