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-elements that some plants need more than others, but I'd need a book to detail them all. The bottom line, though, is that if the garden soil - or whichever medium you use - is good and healthy to start with, veg shouldn't be over-fertilised. About the only exception

water, nip some of the coat or what? Thanks for any suggestions. Yes, they can and do take a long time to germinate.  I bought exactly the same seeds from T&M as few years back but left them in a pot in the garden over winter.  The good news is that I

What plants are good for a garden area that gets morning sun but then a lot of shade rest of day It is for a north facing front garden would like medium plants maybe with flowers or not with spring and winter interest are grasses suitable as well

-mature stems of the current year’s wood. Each cutting should have one pair of leaves. The lower end of the cutting can be treated with a rooting hormone and then placed in a medium such as perlite, peat, sand, or a mix of these. Cover the cuttings

. In another garden forum in Germany it's funny to write in the thread "garden food and kitchen recipes". And so I think, a good idea to start this thread here too...Many gardeners (not only woman!) send photos and recipes to share with other gardeners- is a

and sleeker beast; it must have been a black variety of the much larger and squatter 'brown' Rattus norvegicus. It was sitting beside the stream, which bubbles down through the ornamental gardens, grooming itself in the drizzle when I trotted past

 worked well, because it was flatter than a more well-shaped conifer and fitted the space rather well. Wendy7, if you buy a conifer sold in a garden centre for pot planting, it will be a slow-growing one. It will grow until its roots are pretty pot bound

heat-at the germination stage the growing medium is immaterial to a certain extent-seeds will germinate on kitchen towel if the conditions are right. Hi, if you look on the pack of compost you buy, they should say suitable for small seeds, however i

Medium Cond'; color: blue;">Gardening, in its humble way, is an art as well as a craft … it keeps us in touch with the earth, the seasons, and with that complex of interrelated forces which we call nature. It is a humanising occupation.’

While tidying the garden I found, under a pile of Lucifer leaves, a deep burrow. Its size at the opening is approx the size of a medium garden glove and burrows down to small child fist size but goes very deep. We live in a town environment and have