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Autumn pots

By Adam Pasco on 15/10/2007 11:11:02

A wide variety of pots have graced my patio all summer, hosting a wide and varied range of plants from agapanthus and phormium to miscanthus, eucomis, pelargoniums, and an assortment of colourful bedding - to name but a few.I love growing things


How to grow dahlias from seed

By Gardeners' World on 19/07/2011 15:27:30

this method for sowing seeds saved from your own dahlia plants at the end of the previous season.10cm pot or seed trayMulti-purpose compost Dahlia seedsPlant label and pencilClear polythene bag and rubber band (for pot) or propagator lid (for seed tray


Summer stunners

By Adam Pasco on 10/09/2007 10:38:02

eye at a local plant centre, its spoon-shaped petals infused with steely blue crying out for closer inspection. Three plants were soon at home in a large terracotta pot, positioned in a hot spot on my patio. Since June they've bloomed non


Knowing your onions

By Jane Moore on 16/11/2007 10:07:49

towards the shallots and garlic, only growing a few onions which we've used pretty quickly. This year, having realised - finally - that I find shallots a bit of a faff, I grew more onions than ever. I dried them diligently on the patio, dodging the rain


Sowing seeds - chillies and sweet peppers

By Adam Pasco on 14/04/2008 12:26:00

; for the first time I've been able to run an extension to my greenhouse to power an electric propagator. When temperatures all around have fallen, the propagator maintains a warming 20Ë?C, perfect for germinating most seeds.I always grow an assortment of chillies


Growing trees in pots

By Adam Pasco on 12/05/2008 12:02:00

-shaped golden leaves. A deciduous tree, its buds start opening as weather warms up during April, and by early May the spreading canopy of branches is clad with fully open foliage. Looking out at it today - sitting proudly in its large pot on my patio close


Stag beetles

By Richard Jones on 25/06/2008 14:05:00

these wonderful creatures in my back garden. South London is now about the only place in the UK where you can regularly see these awesome monsters. My supposition is that when the housing boom spread across the area 100 to 150 years ago, it was one of the most


Hopper and crawler

By Richard Jones on 24/10/2007 09:46:49

. It didn't move, other than the odd belch and my 2½-year-old son looked at it askance, not completely convinced it was a living creature. I could hear his mind working - it was much more likely to be a curiously sculpted rock, or a stunted plant root. We


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