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Any garden questions to really test us

amateur gardening enthusiast with the query below please? I am growing basil, mint, chives, parsley, rockets and rosemary from the beginning again. I want to put them outside for the summer but when I did this last year with the same set of herbs they got by Verdun

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03/04/2013 23:45:40

by Woodgreen wonderboy

Herbs dying

Has anyone else been having trouble with herbs this year? I grow mine in containers - mint, oregano, feverfew etc - and almost all of them have had diseased leaves, poor growth and when the sun finally did arrive last week, scorched leaves. Even by jalcinto

04/08/2012 16:51:25

by blueberry77

My cuttings!

African Blue Basil New Guinea Impatiens - various colours Coleus Plenty more to do tomorrow Pam LLx Wow Pam, do you have a production line? You put me to shame, started out with good intentions to do cuttings today and got sidetracked. I think I by lilylouise

01/09/2012 21:22:38

by christopher2

Growing veg with little space

grow basil as a companion plant to tomatoes. Stick a plant in with the tomato, and as basil is more sensitive to conditions than tomatoes, if it looks sickly, it will do it before it shows on your tomatoes. Can't remember where I read this, but worth by laarobbins

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11/04/2013 00:22:59

by * Red Dahlia *

Which? Compost reviews

Just been reading Which? magazine's reviews of the performance of different composts for growing seeds and young plants. Top is Arthur Bower's seed and cutting compost following by 3 different Verve(B&Q) composts - grow bag then sowing and cutting by Daintiness

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09/02/2013 18:59:22

by tony68

Our NGS Open Day

with - thank you for sharing your spectacular garden with us. Hope my blue basil grows as well as yours - its doing really well up to now. Very nice formal garden, such pretty colour combinations. Do you live by a very busy main road? Beautiful garden Pam, I by lilylouise

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07/08/2012 05:53:51

by lilylouise

Marigolds in the veg patch

it Verd. I expect it also depends how much you grow and what your own conditions are. Tomatoes are better inside here because of our weather but I've not really had issues with pests....so far I have grown summer savory this year - supposed to deter black by Verdun

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09/05/2013 00:33:57

by Verdun

Damnation to double flowers

The trend for too long now has been to develop, market and grow large, blowsy, double flowers. Not sure if nature ever evolved any doubles or whether they are an unnautural abberation. And what about the poor bees and their various cousins by Woodgreen wonderboy

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08/03/2013 14:46:45

by chica

give and you will receive

freind likes cooking curries/hot/spicy food, so gave her a pot with basil, corriander and fennel along with a nice jar containing dried chillies and a bunch of cut lillies. Was thinking of giving a chilli plant this year. Another freind is more meat by Iwant a biggergarden

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11/06/2012 16:55:50

by sotongeoff

Talkback: Sowing seeds for home-made ratatouille

is worth it all. And don't forget the herbs too - bay and thyme or oregano/marjoram and basilWho knows what this summer will bring - I'll still be growing my own ratatouille. carruthers you do not prune blue berry bushes except dead wood or diseased wood by DABBLER

28/11/2011 18:40:23

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