Busy-Lizzie

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Plant ID please

Posted: 27/05/2013 at 12:15

I think it looks like Angelica too. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/430/

MORNING FORKERS

Posted: 27/05/2013 at 12:09

Tina, did you plant it good and deep? It likes manure and compost in the soil and a really good soak every week, not little and often.

Gosh, although it's been so cold and wet here in Dordogne, often colder than England, everything is still a lot more in advance. Chicky's wisteria is coming out and mine is over. My roses are coming out.

What did you do in your garden today?

Posted: 27/05/2013 at 12:03

A climbing frame would be an item of horror in my garden, hate heights. The gutters on my house need cleaning!

A garden full a weeds!

Posted: 27/05/2013 at 11:57

Oh dear Bookertoo, sounds horrendous. But that's why you use glyphosate first. When I rotovate now I weed first and I pick up any stray weeds it throws up. The professional firm who made my main lawn didn't spray and they rotavated without removing any weeds and all the couch grass, creeping buttercup and cinquefoil crept back into the flowerbeds.

Growing Sweet Peas and Runner Beans together

Posted: 27/05/2013 at 10:43

I would use a mixture, but others may say differently. Here in France I wouldn't have the choice as they don't sell J I, but I found it very good in the past. I use organic fertiliser which is slow release so you don't need to renew it very often, perhaps monthly it should say on the packet. I hope the pot is quite deep.

A garden full a weeds!

Posted: 27/05/2013 at 10:38

Hello Verdun, It depends how much time and energy you have. I love my rotovater as my garden is too big and it saves me so much work, it's so easy to use. But I will admit that digging is best.

A garden full a weeds!

Posted: 27/05/2013 at 10:31

Depends if you want to use weedkillers or not. I would spray the lot with glyphosate. It takes a little time to work as the plants absorb it through the leaves into the roots, but you can plant afterwards as it doesn't stay in the soil. Then rake the dead weeds off, then dig or rotovate the plot. But there are weeds like bindweed, if you rotovate be careful that the roots are removed beause if they are chopped up it will make more plants.