Dovefromabove

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new lavender bed advice

Posted: 29/01/2013 at 06:58

I think that for a front garden the more formal effect of all one variety will be good , particularly in large brick planters as you describe - and this way they will all be at roughly the same height and bloom at the same time. Underplanting with escholzia will look gorgeous

Swiss chard

Posted: 28/01/2013 at 19:54

Yes, I've got a row of Ruby chard I sowed last summer - we've been picking through the winter and it's surved the snow and new shoots are appearing now.

I've got two other rows, one of the multi-coloured and one of the more ordinary Lucullus,; I sowed them in the autumn and they've been under a mini poly-tunnel. They'll be ready to use in the spring

Swiss chard

Posted: 28/01/2013 at 18:52

Keep picking and eating while it's edible - when it goes to seed dig it up and sow some more - wonderful stuff.

squirrel shot for coming to the table.

Posted: 28/01/2013 at 15:43

That is illegal and ought to be reported to local police!

Moving Raspberry canes

Posted: 27/01/2013 at 08:30

I think that if you can transplant them with the biggest rootball possible to avoid disturbance to the roots, and you do it now, while the plant is dormant, you might just get away with not remving the new canes and losing this year's fruit.

Prepare the fresh bed as well as you can to give them the optimum chance, firm them in well and put in plenty of supports to tie the new canes to so they don't get windrock - this will give the roots a chance to bed in. Good luck

Clematis flowering problems

Posted: 26/01/2013 at 19:58

Does it get more light in the greenhouse than in the garden - or - are you not recognising the flowering shoots and pruning them all off and turning them into cuttings

The uses of rainwater

Posted: 26/01/2013 at 19:16

Yep, I've done it.

srong stone cleanrer

Posted: 26/01/2013 at 18:26

Then they're probably granite/silica and not limestone

help needed with identification

Posted: 26/01/2013 at 15:34

kate1123 wrote (see)

I did a little research and it seems that they need to be soaked for 24 hours and need 70 degree heat to germinate.

They didn't get that very often in my parents' front garden (although it was south facing) and we did get self-sown babies from time to time.

help needed with identification

Posted: 26/01/2013 at 13:39

It'll enjoy a sunny spot on well drained soil - my parents had a beauty climbing up the south face of their seaside home. You could try cuttings - the rhs link above gives details - that way you're certain to get one that is true to type.

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