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best...trial and era i guess. We're harvesting at the Botanic Garden and get to take home anything we volunteers can use so, this year, as I am saving for my potager hard landscaping, I am making lots of goodies to freeze. I have already put a lot

on the natural food elsewhere. I have certainly noticed a massive decline in feathered visitors compared to last year when were in the big freeze!...What is everybody else experiencing as far as feathered visitors go at the moment??I'm sure when they return

, as the containers could break in freezing weather (especially if terracotta). They'd be too heavy to move into the greenhouse though! @Esvery - I have a shady garden, too. I've got brooklime, frogbit and hornwort growing in my pond. You could also try water forget

didn't realise was that I ought to have let the stems come back down again.  Not knowing this, I hadn't controlled where it was going and many of the blooms ended up high with less lower down at eye level.  It survived the freezing temperatures over

to have wet feet so give it a handful of pelleted chicken manure every spring and an occasional liquid feed of rose or tomato fertiliser until the first flowers open.   Next Feb or March, depending on whether it's freezing or not, prune it back hard

the roots form freezing in winter as they are more exposed to frost in a pot above ground. You could underplant with pelargoniums for the summer or for a permanent planting try evergreen grasses such as forms of carex buchananii or blue fescue.   other than

they look as though they've been killed by freezing winter temperatures, but most often they revive. There are couple of walls in my town which are covered with them. I wish they'd seed themselves in the cobbles in the front of my house- maybe I'll have a

and freeze well. They seemed to have all rotted so I have planted a new bunch. Hold back for a while -I had the same problem last year-I started some in pots- some germinated -those that didn't rotted- resowed rotted again-then resorted to sowing direct

cabbages I would dig them up and harvest what I could from them, slice, blanch and freeze and not grow cabbage in that soil for the next couple of years.  By the look of the heart they are not going to get any better and you may end up with nothing. It

the sun for all the smog - the sky was constantly just brown and hazy, and temps were -20 in winter and 40 in summer. No real weather as such - just freezing or boiling with occasional drizzle. The thing I missed the most about home - along with dairy