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bought some potatoes to sow and carrot & parsnip seeds. I'm going to give it a go and as you said any mistakes I make will be part of the learning experience. Thanks. Good advice Kate. This will be my third year of growing veggies and I've made lots

also want to start to grow some salads.........can anyone advise me on some summer flowering plants that will do all of this or am I wishful thinking? some evergreen would be good too to give all round interest in the dull cold days of winter

I love purple,/red foliage and purple flowers in the garden. Cotinus Royal Purple, berberis atropurpureum, acers. Heucheras, pittosporum Tom thumb. Physocarpus Diablo, red grasses, the purple black acteas, etc. etc. And the flowers.....allium

not be appropriate for a school as they need expert attention during the holidays.I suggest you investigate making bee homes from bundles of short canes (see BBC bee homes) and growing lots of bee friendly plants. I planted white broccoli late last year, it hasn

emilym. How about filling in with decorative pebbles? You could probably get a few things to survive but they wouldn't please you much.  Hi both yes I think I am hoping a little, the soil is a good 4 inches and weeds grow  there pretty well, shame

What plant associations are you particularly pleased with in your garden? I'm loving from back to front, smoke bush + white potentilla + dark geranium phaeum + allium purple sensation + stachys at the front. Also a massive clump of bergenia

dark). The following year they didn't show up so I thought they snuffed it but oh no. They are back this year as is the ornamental alliums that I thought died last winter (or at leate there is something oniony popping up where they where). Finally one

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

is planted and scattered the seed of yellow Corydalis which grows very well in shady areas. It's a wild plant and is rampant but is very effective and very colourful in problem areas. I have a shady bank under trees - apart from greenery (ferns, hostas etc

!!! As you can guess, I'm going for total, all out, nucleur attack! Apparently, growing alliums around vulnerable plants also puts them off which is probably why my beetroot and kale are doing well, whilst my french beans are being decimated.  When we moved