Busy-Lizzie

Our own A to Z of our Gardening

Gosh, everyone has said my favourites before I got here, oh I know - pinks!

Gorgeous coloured petunia, Bev.

Greenhouse query

Are you talking about hardy perennials? If so you can plant them in the garden. If they are half hardy annuals you should be able to put them in the greenhouse to keep the frost off, but what temperatures are you getting at night? Is it below zero?

Growing Sweet Peas and Runner Beans together

Glad you are pleased with the fence.

Good Evening FORKERS

Lucky you Dove, have they helped get rid of the slugs?

WW, I sow parsnips fairly thickly in a row and usually enough come up for me to have to thin them out a bit, but this spring the carrots are up but no parsnips.

victorian garden/cottage garden

Good luck Dennis, glad it helped. Would be lovely to see a photo one day.

Good Evening FORKERS

I'm knackered, more weeding and planting in the flower garden (it's over an acre, 8 beds, one about 20 metres long), planted out runner beans, French beans, resowed parsnips (wonder if it will work this time), sowed more peas. Did a load of washing, means ironing tonight or tomorrow, about to cook salmon, leeks and potatoes.

Will this work for a new part lawn?

If the front beds are lower than the lawn then of course you will need some topsoil to even it out. Could you leave the camellia and the hydrangea so it won't be so dull? Seeding is cheaper. It's up to you.

But I think I still don't really understand. How can you spend 4 - 5 hours a day on a front garden that is 15 foot by 12 foot? I spend that and I have over an acre and the veg garden is 25 metres by 10 metres. However, it's not pristine but it is pretty.

What did you do in your garden today?

I planted out the runner beans and sowed more peas this morning.

What is this plant

They are perennial wall flowers, only live a few years so best to take cuttings, Erysimum, Bowles Mauve, as Nutcutlet says. The other wallflowers used for bedding are biennuals, cheiranthus cheiri, but it's all the same family, brassicas.

Cutting the top off raspberry canes

I always cut the tops off my raspberry canes.

Gardens we have visited 2013

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Cleaning greenhouses

Rose pruning and frost

reviews

Why did you all start gardening?

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