kjdintown

What's the weather like in your area?

Been preparing the GH for potentially 3 weeks away as I prepare to work at Wimbledon. Replaced all the gravel in my trays with capilliary matting and fixed up a big pot of water for each tray with a strip of matting going from the pot to the tray - hopefully it will help everything survive.  My neighbour will no doubt refill the pots for me every 4-5 days - I'd be lost without my lovely neighbours.  I've put straw down for my strawberries and by the time I turned round and back again my cat had made a nice bed on the straw!! Oh well, at least the berries were warm!  Lovely day here in Wiltshire; threatened with rain since I went out at 9am but it's held off and no awful wind like yesterday.

veg suggestion please!!

You need nemasys:

http://www.nemasysinfo.co.uk/

Works a treat.

Talkback: How to harvest cucumbers

I'm growing cucumbers for the first time and two weeks ago I planted them outside in a bed.  Monty says they love humidity so should I put them back in pots and the greenhouse or are they ok to stay where they are?

Plant ID please

lovely, thanks.

What are these two plants

You should be able to edit your post just after you submit it.  You should see 'quote' and 'edit' buttons at bottom right.  I think your first one looks like honeysuckle - what did you see at the GC that changed your mind?

twine + tits = damage to plants

Why dont you create something for the birds to take their attention away from your beans?  Take some twine and wrap it about ten times round two sticks in the ground about 7 or 8 inches apart (just for ease of winding).  Get a flower pot with a large drainage hole in the bottom, take the twine you just wrapped and push one end of the batch of twine through the hole. With the flowerpot held upside down, thread some more twine through the fold in the twine to create a hanging loop then tie a knot around the twine ensuring the knot secures the twine and it cannot fall through the flower pot hole.  

The other end of the twine should hang down below the level of the flowerpot.  Cut the bottom of the loop so you now have only separate strings of twine hanging down.  Ruffle them up and loosen up the twine threads and this should make the birds want to use this for their nests.  Like us, they will go for the easy option if there is one

You could also make it more attractive for them if you have a cat or dog that you groom - put the dander up in amongst the twine so it doesn't fly away easily and they will be most grateful

Plant ID please

I've never seen one before but I'd like it in my garden   I looked up Camassia and Ornithogalum in the search area to see what they looked like and it couldn't find anything 

monty don

I am a MD, Alan T, Alice and Joe fan and GW is always over too soon for me but I think there should be more and varied gardening programmes on tv.  I've seen some competition gardening programmes on some satelite channels but they aren't brilliant - not much substance as far as I'm concerned.  We need more quality gardening programmes on TV.  If you compare how many shows there on about cooking against how many there are about gardening . . . we are way behind!  Come on BBC - get a wriggle on please!

Greenhouse beginner

Good point - I've some netting that I can attach over the full length of the door.  I'll set that up next weekend.  I have a cat who loves to sit in the GH all day but she wouldn't appreciate any visitors. Thank you.

Greenhouse beginner

Pam - a plan of action, that sounds like fun to me.

Thanks Paul, Interesting about the door being left open, no reason why I can't do that.  I have found a bit of mould before and now I know why 

I've attached an old pic above taken a few months ago after the GH was put in.  The one below is now, with the addition of some  home made raised beds - ready for veg. It's still a work in progress but it's getting there.  

 You can see where the shade falls most of the time and it closes in over the garden later in the day.

It's full of all sorts right now and probably will be in the future as I want to grow flowers and veg - veg need more room so I may well give into them over the summer and raise cuttings etc over winter - just don't know yet, I'm learning as I go.  I may have to take out the potting table on the left to make room for tomatoes??

See - told you it was small.  There's not much floor to water after I've finished in there! 

Greenhouse beginner

Ribes sanguineum

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