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inspiration and a design for my garden (which is at the front of my house and not at the back so it's quite visible) and any ideas would be gratefully received. Hi llamalady Why not grow flowers with your vegetables like like for example sweet peas with your

things i have ever bought.  Have grown a load of plants from seed, overwintered tender plants, and have now got tomato plants, sweet peppers and chillies growing, like the other people who have replied I spend an awful lot of time down there!  Enjoy Mandy

no success with sweet pepper seeds at all, any advice out there? Wet again, but brightening up a bit now & the wind a lot less- Manchester. Still only about 7C outside though. J. Wet, rainy, grey. This time last year it was so dry that the soil was turning

as has been suggested on various chats. What can I do? I need to plant everything out very soon. I have peas, beans, sweet corn, tomatoes, kale, and chilli peppers and a few other randoms. Can I protect them? Should I plant them in containers? HELP

sticks.  I use these to identify my seeds and plants around the garden.  I usually get 50 for less than a pound.  I also use toilet roll holders to plant up my sweet peas - lets them have a good root run My friends save their sticks from their ice

  Drum roll ..................... trumpet ... Evening Brumbull Been out cutting down some branches today lots of arm aching pain and checked my plastic green house seeds - some bits starting to grow. still cold and windy though in Southampton

about edible plants: Nasturtiums, cucumbers, peppers, chillis, courgettes, tumbling tomatoes, chives etc? There are those lovely begonias that have small flowers - can't remember the variety at moment, but I'm going to have a go with them this year

thing? Few years back amd only having lunch hour I decided to side shoot my melons growing in a cold frame.  Only had about 3 melons.  In my haste I "side shooted" the fruit.  No melons I usually do things in great  haste...no patience....stepped on veg

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

at the personality of plants! Berghill, what a  gorgeous garden you have. Was I right in thinking that there was a mauve sweet rocket growing in a woodland area? I've sown sweet rocket seeds this year ( have loads) and a couple of mature beech trees in the garden