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, strawberry bed, Raspberry canes etc. and rhubarb. All this time the weeds were dying under the cardboard and enriching the soil. Until I was at the stage when I dug straight through the rooting carboard and dug out the worst pernicious weeds and burnt them

The more I learn about gardening, the more I wish I had a bigger garden. Since that isn't going to happen, the plant on my wish list would be a tiny russet apple tree; I don't have room for any more large fruit trees. What would everyone else like

not so much but i just could'nt wait! now though i have a back log for the windows - next week looks better though. moving plants out bit by bit to green house. planted out summer bulbs today. been waiting to do that forever. they are in a massie planter

good to, then last year I did the same with the long borders and have started to plant this out, problem is it just looks like a large piece of grass with a few plants around the edge! What can I do to soften it and make it into an interesting garden? I

need to get your coat So do we know what one is yet? is there such thing ...... hmm ? I think an 'average' gardener is someone who keeps their garden tidy, buys bedding plants every year from the supermarket, plants them out too early and wonders why

I have a cert in horticulture studied in 1993 in west lothian, while there I became aware of the problem that we have in britain with the new zealand flat worm. I recently bought a house and found one in the garden under a plant pot, since

exciting! Hi GG I think you said this before , 25 Min's is not long enough  I did like Monty's double deep beds for extra drainage Derek I liked his deep-dug paths for drainage, too, and the bricks looked great. Well I enjoyed the show learnt some bits good

I would like to know of anyway I can recycle plastic plant pots, as I have loads? I don't want them to go 'into' a landfill site. Where are you I teach in a school where we do gardening with pupils. If your pots are cean and small 3 or 4 inch I

it a more suitable home, if it is liable to eat my produce or spoil my flowers. It is easy to grow plants for the slugs and snails which they prefer and then collect them and put them under a hedge, where they will be happy till a predator lower down

calabrese. I could sell them as green doilies   Nearly all my plants are self seeded in a gravel bed,a few others around the garden. It's amazing where they pop up. I then transplant them around the garden when the stems have toughened up. I think this helps