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The best multi purpose compost this year

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Up to last year Wickes was very good, then they changes the contents, half a forest shredded in the bag, not at all any use!

They had a sale on, £1.98 per bag so I bought 12 bags which I didn't know at the time they had changed the contents.

I bulk it up with pure peat, which I got from Countywide, and it was half priceas well.

Asda was also full of wood shards, not very good!

The companies hands are tied, as the Government and other weirdo's are intent on saving the planet, and as none of them are gardeners, they don't care!

Ps apart for their cannabis plants they have growing in their lofts that is!

Beware of Parkers Bulbs. .

This is an honest observation as others above are no doubt are about two companies I have bought plants from!

Last year I ordered from Parker's,Hosta plants and perennial geraniums, total, total, total crap and some of the hostas were wrongly named!

As for T&M I would be jailed if I were to post on here about the quality of their plants and customer service.

Never again from either company, trading standards should be after then!

It is only by experience and listening to others that you discover how bad some suppliers are!

Potato Blight - which potato to grow

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Local garden centre has "early" seed potatoes on display !

Must say this is the earliest I have ever seen them for sale!

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Potato Blight - which potato to grow

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In this weeks Garden News, Nigel Coburn was posed the question what potatoes he will grow next season, the reply was Charlotte and Epicure!

My wife is a Scot so when we were up there we were fed "Ayrshire" potatoes, "the best in the world" according to my mother in law!

"Ayrshire" potatoes are actually Epicure, I tried them and they tasted nothing like the Scottish ones, so never again!

I wonder if Nigel will give us a tweet on here?

Potato Blight - which potato to grow

Hello,

Unless you live miles from anywhere, you should try a local garden centre as buying on line is much more costly and then there is the carriage to pay!

The problem with buying online is the weight of the potatoes!

Liming the soil

Hi!

Have a look at this web site!

Cheers!

www.kilwaughterlime.com

Cheers.

Potato Blight - which potato to grow

I have tried and grown lots of different varieties and the most resistand to blight with me are DUNLUCE for very earlies and SANTE for main crop.

I get my seed from Dundry Nurseries , they sell from a single tuber to what ever weight you so desire, in this way I am able to try lots of varieties very cheaply, though some are a total waste of time and effort as they are tasteless.

It is difficult to escape blight, some years I get some other years there are no blighted tubers!

As for Sapro Mira I got them when they first came out at first and cost a fortune, good crop, no blight, but terrible taste, totally uneatable, so I had to dump them!

In the gardening section in the Telegraph last Autumn they published results of selected potato trials they had conducted, and two of their favourites were Sapro Mira and Rocket, me I would not take either if I got them for nothing!

So in the end, it's all down to personal choice and taste!

Queen Elizabeth rose

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I have no sense of smell what so ever, so I would never buy on smell, just looks!

I see people having to bend down to smell roses, so it can only be admired close up,but if a rose is pretty it is admired from near or afar.

Saying that, a bunch of roses keeps me on the right side of my wife !

Buying plants on line

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That's who I had the truely terrible plants from as well, and the customer service was worse that their plants, never again!

I was caught out once, instead of learning from that, I went and ordered more plants from them again!

And they are reluctant to reply to e-mails!

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Greenhouse size?

Hello!

I have a 10x8 when I first put it up it looked massive from inside, now it's a little tiddler and as I have so much stuff inside for the winter, the only free area is just inside the door!

Wish I had bought a 12x8 instead!

When I moved into this house there was a 6x6 there but I soon got rid of it!

Believe it or not it was much harder to control the temperature than the larger one, in the summer the temps flew up and in the winter time  I could feel the warmer air rushing past me everytime I opened the door, so whatever heat had built up was lost!

But to me,a greenhouse is a must have item!

Cheers

Grafted Tomato Plants!