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B&Q M.Purpose Compost Issues.

I have found the same with B & Q compost and their gro bags. I lost a lot of plants through using it a few years ago and I've never used again. I planted my tomato plants into their grow bags and some of them just died and I hardly had any toms to pick on what I had left. It is better to pay a little more and get good quality compost.

Talkback: Gardening theft

Hi my late father-in-law had an allotment in Bournemouth and they planted Hawthorn all the way round the parimater and of course it made it a haven for birds. Might be worth a try if you all club together to get the plants. Hope you can stop them, these people are just awful. But you know what they say, "what goes around comes around" so they will pay in the end.

USE BY DATE ON SEEDS

Hi Eileen, my father-in-law passed away last August and I have all his seed packets. I have sown Celeriac seeds and these were ten years old and they have germinated and are growing very well in my greenhouse. I've also sown Brussel Sprouts, these were also over ten years old and they have also germinated. If I were you  I would give some of them a go, start some off on a piece of wet kitchen roll and those that start growing you can pot them into small modules and grow them on, its worth a try. 

Acers

Hi David, I have one of these as well, I've had mine for over ten years and it is only growing leaves at the bottom this year, the top doesn't look too good at all. My Acer is in a pot and sheltered from the cold winds. It has grown so well up until now, I have loved it and looked after it really well. Hopefully someone will be able to help us.

lawn problems

HI Mike, I read in March edition of Gardeners World that these bees are called Tawny mining bees and they build their nests in sunny lawns and borders from March to May. They say that these bees are harmless and do not sting. Gardeners World says they are at risk as gardeners often mistake the mounds for ants nest. I don't know how many you have in your lawn but if you can, try and leave them where they are, bees need all the help they can get. Good luck

Eradicating ivy

Hi Abbie, try Roundup it works wonders on bind weed and I have found it does the job on Ivy as well. Spray it onto the leaves and hopefully it should work, you may need to do it a few times. Good Luck

Non Flowering Daffodills

Thank you Kate, they are in quite a sunny position and yes I do remove spent flowers but I will lift them this year and replant and hopefully they should be flowering better next year. At least I've got a few in flower, so its not all bad.

Non Flowering Daffodills

My Daffodills have all come up, I planted them in groups in 2009. I have fed them and loved them and spoken to them nicely, left them to die down before removing their leaves, but in each group only a couple of them have flowered and I have got mostly leaves. Last year and the year before they flowered so well and looked so lovely but this year its as if they are on strike. I am sure that someone out there in our great gardening family can tell me why and may be what to do.

Climbing rose suggestions

HI Maria,  Golden Showers is mean't to be quite a nice climbing rose, it is a lovely bright yellow and is said to flower its socks off for a long time.

so the toms leeks and parsnips whats your plans for the weekend

I'm going to be admiring my new, well newish greenhouse, picked up on Gumtree, and working out where things are going to go. I already have a greenhouse but you know how it is, no matter how big it is, it is never big enough. So my lovely husband has adapted an 8 x 6 down to a 5 x 6 and squeezed it into a corner of the garden. I will be able to use it to harden my young seedlings off before going out into the garden and overwinter several large pots and it will  also be somewhere to grow my cumbers.  

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