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I have just come in from putting fleece over the more tender plants, like Canna and some of the less hardy Passiflora, thrown over the plants and held in position with clothes pegs, it saves a lot of misery in the morning. Hope the nights warm up

for the weather to get a bit better to start work on it (landlord doesn't mind) and today was the day. I've attached some pictures of it and the work completed today but would like some advice about how best to get it to work for me. I would like to grow my own

in small plants....alpines, perennials, etc......and they are excellent. Huge range of plants. I buy plants that I know will be small but will grow quickly. The plants I reeceived were immediately,potted on Imto bigger pots and already are growing apace

We have recently collected seaweed blown up in a storm and left above the usual high tide mark. We have just started growing vegetables this year in deep beds - not grown any before. Any comments as to how we can use the seaweed. We have put some

variegated rhodedendron, elegansus and pieris. Like my nom de plume I am a bit shouty! .....well, you and your variegated trousers punkdoc It depends on plants if variegation works or not. For impact variegated canna like Pretoria and Durban are unbeatable

forward to seeing what people have to say in this forum. Thanks for the book tip, Hedgh0g. Always useful with Christmas approaching. "The Bee-Kind Garden"by David Squire is a lovely little book to encourage gardeners to grow flowers and grasses to bring

to be shrivelling. To add insult to injury the BBC have removed the GW episodes from iPlayer! On the apple problem has anyone any idea why this would be, or is it down to the wettest June on record? The 3 cordons which are growing in the ground seem fine - so far I

 gardens don't thrive so well without these comfort breaks. My New Year resolutions are to not over crowd the GH with to many plants. Remember to sow veg seeds regularly and not give up by June. Have a mixed strawberry bed and try growing pineberries again from

worlds cant be a bad thing see if you can get hold of some wine boxes they are great for growing salad stuff in.       My garden is quite small and as it was a new build when we moved here 19 years ago all that's in it and how it looks is down to me

Hi Adam, my back garden is north facing and on the western side I have some ivy growing on a fence panel my question to you is why does it not produce flowers and later on berries? Sorry I meant to also say that I live in Weymouth Dorset and the ivy