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Begonia Corms
it in the garden centre? Isn't it flowers of sulphur?-this is just from memory-can't say I have ever bothered. You'll find some anti fungal something for storing tubers etc. I've never used it but I don't grow anything I'd have to lift for winter. http by Carol Thomas
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28/10/2012 13:54:58
by ernie's ghostly gold tops
which plants would be best?
consider some evergreens, too, such as Euonymus fortunei, Viburnum davidii, Skimmia Japonica & Sweet Box, for example.  All of the above should be fine in heavy clay. I think that ornamental rhubarb might grow a bit big for the bed in that photograph by chellie
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29/07/2012 20:43:40
by chellie
Growing potatoes in pots
I'm new to all this gardening, but I've got a lovely sun soaked patio and I'd like to grow some veg, particularly potatoes. It'll have to be in pots, any advice on when to plant potatoes and in what? Any help would be VERY much appreciated. When you by 222222222
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07/03/2013 10:30:52
by marshmello
Talkback: Bug boxes
to grow,i grown veg last year, i grown beans carrots and peas.i hope to grow lots more this year. do you have any advice for me on growing plants. Reply to Weakleys. Please do not buy butterfly caterpillars to release in the garden. This is a waste by Anonymous
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28/11/2011 18:37:51
by mal
think of the blackbirds Monty !
nesting in thick ivy near my bird feeders and the male is working overtime chasing away anything that flies! Having said that the young have left but he returns for suet fruity sprinkles. The blue tits are about to leave the boxes (I wish it would warm up by Terri Quincey
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25/05/2012 23:45:42
by Bear2
Veg Growing Plan
till May which killed off a few of my early sowing. Doesn't stop me from itching to get sowing again this year! Just trying some self restraint!! Have just listened to GQT on Radio4; one person wanted to know how to grow peas in a window box; it was a by Brycey D
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22/02/2013 17:28:48
by Brycey D
Talkback: Growing cyclamen
. People who grow lots of hellebores also hae trouble with black death if they do not spread them out a bit. Makes you think nature knows best, Pippa, and large greenhouses with thousands of plants in them are not what cyclamen plants like. Perhaps we by gardnerjon
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03/04/2012 19:19:27
by josephine hayton
Advice for a novice
such as the small hollies are good, christmas box, any of the smaller euonymous, golden laurel  - lots of choices for pots, worth looking around some good web sites for what is on offer now. The reality is that you can grow anything in a pot as long as you by Stewart Forward
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31/07/2012 20:56:07
by quercus_rubur
Traditional plants along side more modern ones??
of planting and style, some of the most interesting plant combitions are a complete juxtaposition. For example what you may quite often see is box forms and hard lines with loose perrenial planting within or around them, I have seen 18th century roses by julieasayers
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01/02/2012 18:43:33
by Samuel.
Talkback: How to deter carrot root fly
to have Monty back! ? ? this is a big problem I have so I am going to sow in a deep bag and cover with mess just sow in a raised border, does not have to be that high to deter them and try growing strong smelling herbs or crops e by tom9760
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22/06/2012 13:29:59
by Colin Atkinson