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Talkback: Growing veg in containers

On 28/11/2011 in forum

strawberries in a hanging basket & in pots too. Last year we were picking the strawberries every day throughout the summer. They were lovely.Coz my garden is small I try to make use of every available space. It is filled with pots. My husband & kids always take


Talkback: Sowing seeds - chillies and sweet peppers

On 19/06/2012 in forum

come up. They are about 1.5 inches high now, but my tomatoes are still only about 2 inches high but leggy. Am I doing something wrong? and do they need to go outside? I got myself a green house earlier this year and started gardening only 3 months ago


Talkback: 'Grow Your Own' Week: Getting started

On 28/11/2011 in forum

?Great to have help from experienced hands!Thanks. D I have two raised beds in my north facing garden that get sun for only afew hours each day. Everything I grew last year was small and pathetic. Am I doomed to do poorly because of these conditions or is moving


Work in Progress

On 11/02/2012 in forum

of the garden is now drawing to a close. Oddly despite all that I have achieved, I am still disappointed in the result so far. I actually prefer smaller gardens, the smaller the better. Some of the best designs have been achieved in areas as small as a balcony


Talkback: Growing trees in pots

On 28/11/2011 in forum

this be cold please? I plan to post a photo in my Gardening Calendar. Interesting to hear of others growing trees from seed. I am a compulsive grower of things from stuff I have eaten! I presently have 3 chestnuts growing indoors that I saved from some bought


Talkback: Vine weevils

On 28/11/2011 in forum

with you on the issue of weevils and lilly beetle!http://ryans-garden.blogspot.com/Ryan I have for the first time found the evil weevil larvae in my strawberry planter - a creature that serves no useful purpose whatsoever. I am hoping the nematodes that I


Talkback: Growing tomatoes outdoors

On 28/11/2011 in forum

I'd agree, I did mine in potato bags outdoors but I think they would have done better in the ground. I had alot of watering to do even if it had rained all night, the bags would dry out by lunch time. I'm getting a steady crop of gardeners delight


Talkback: Hostas, slugs and snails

On 28/11/2011 in forum

at "growing stuff" myself after receiving them as a gift last year. I've never been much of a gardener, and living in an apartment isn't much of an incentive to become one either. But they just sit in their pot in their little corner of my balcony and do


Gardeners World - not back for 4 weeks!

On 04/08/2012 in forum

My husband and I were so disappointed to see due to 'sporting' events that our 'gardening' TV is being put on hold! Its Summer, a key time to garden, what is the BBC thinking! There is so much other repeats on the TV, I am sure they can find a slot


Talkback: Pruning wisteria

On 14/06/2012 in forum

to grow over my pergola, how large were yours? Mine hardly seem to have grown at all over the last year. At this rate reaching the canopy will take 10 years! I have recently planted a wisteria in my garden, it is only about a metre high how high should


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