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strawberry plants from the garden centre. This year I have 30-odd garlic plants and about 15 strawberry plants from plantlets. The strawbs even self-planted between the slabs in my compost area so I could consider them weeds! Nice problem to have though

water to get into the crown They stand cooler temps but never below 50Fonly cut nback the stalk if it clearly goes dry and brown remove obviously dead leaves repot every 2 years when not in flower using proper orchid compost but with a very sharp sterile

compost so it gets a chance to break down and only dress your plants with it when you can no longer recognise any of the composting materials and it all looks like fine humus, the breaking down fungal activity has finished and doesn't get drawn up

. Any advice welcome... These days plants are 'container grown' which means they are growing in a large black plastic pot of compost. Hence they can be planted anytime of the year, however if planted now they will need regular watering through the summer

... Reply to houston tx: I wonder if you are keeping these yung seedlings too wet, as they hate waterlogged soil or compost. You don't say whether you are growing them in the ground or in pots of compost, but both should be free-draining. Also make sure pots

://www.handystores.co.uk/category/86-Traditional-Bulbs.aspx Does it matter what compost I use to plant spring bulbs? I have seen bulb fibre is this best or can I use any compost?! Thanks Dawn :) Thats an all around well thought out article... received my bulbs today all 160 of them

that delivers my heavy supplies of compost etc. I moved to a new area last November and am still trying to find a decent garden centre. We have no chains here and so far all the ones I've visited have been awful. Poor plants, old stock, no staff and I can never

of my village for the BTO. The gardens that had shrubs and a bit of untidiness had the biggest number of sparrows. The manicured gardens had few if any.My garden is large and I try to include wild life friendly plants. I make compost, have a 'dead hedge

?ChrisG - You could grow asparagus in bags, but they're a perennial crop so they're better growing in the ground, as the nutrients in the bags' compost will deplete and the compost will need to be changed regularly. Here's a how-to project on planting asparagus

/ You can put your seeds in a little plastic box and store them in the refrigerator till the spring, then sow them in a pot of ericaceous compost and you will get little pine trees. If they are Scots pine remember they are forest trees so