kate1123

personal experience on composting

The year I got free horse manure I added quite a lot in, it already had lots of worms in the manure and that year I got lots of good compost quickly. Most of the time I just add old compost in small quantities.

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Geoff that never happens

I will be watching the Iron Lady tonight

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Geoff sickies need to be saved for the right day, the day after a night on the tiles, a sunny day for gardening or when you need to catch up on a pile of marking.

personal experience on composting

Sam there are a couple of 'cheats' that will make it work quicker, I add in small quantities of soil from the garden or horse manure or old compost from containers that are full of roots etc. 

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KG long time since we heard from you, Happy New Year.

I have had some sort of 24 hour bug spent most of yesterday in bed watching footy, that Splash was one of the most awful programmes I have seen in a long time 

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Drinks and nibbles, yummy

Just the thought of the mornings getting lighter will make the impending frosts ok.

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Morning all.

Gary it is sooooooo exciting when things start appearing again.

Todays task is to move some more compost, not sure that my back is happy about this.

Geoff is it drinks all round

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Dove how awful

I think Dean was referring to John Boy

Plants for window boxes..

A few years ago I visited Capel Manor and noticed that they underplanted a lot of their baskets with attractive Ivy, to give a nice backdrop. I often steal this idea to give a container a bit of evergreen colour. 

I thought the  secret to boxes and baskets is to use plants that are already in full flower rather than to bring them along. Have you considered Salvias or Fuchsias? I went to the GC this week and they were selling spring bulbs half price

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I think JB is gushingly lovely.

Lamium and Ajuga propagation

Growing morning glory in a hanging basket.

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Castor oil Seedling

Reviving dried bedding, lost instructions

Cobea- rotting

April in Your Garden