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March in your Garden

On 11/03/2013 in forum

experience with cosmos seed rainjustlearning ....up in couple of days and now pricked out into a tray and soon into individual pots. Things happening fast now. Good though, eh? Good news Rain, growing from seed is brilliant. Looks like nothing then all of a


Talkback: Slug-proof plants

On 27/06/2012 in forum

and there's always an abundance of them but not of the flowers and follage. I take GREAT pleasure of putting on my wellies after it has rained and stomp all over the tufts of grass and smile to myself when I hear all the scrunching beneath my feet!! I have


Talkback: Carrot crisis

On 08/06/2012 in forum

of rain! Grown carrots for the first time this year in raised bed. Even though the rains were heavy the drainage was good not leaving the carrots sitting in water. Plenty of own made compost dug in b4 sowing, absolutely fab germination and loads of carrots


Talkback: Plaiting garlic

On 28/11/2011 in forum

all over our garden this year and we didn't plant them so maybe we'll have a good crop we can always hope.We went from Harrogate to our caravan at Hunstanton Norfolk and we haven't seen a drop of rain that must be a record 5 days no rain but I have had


Talkback: Green manure

On 28/11/2011 in forum

the backbreaking. It's heavy soil waterlogged after heay rain, dry in summer, I can't grow much in it and its very dificult to work with. After reading the blogs about green manure I have decided to sow Field Beans. The question I have is how thick should I sow


Talkback: Gardening theft

On 03/04/2012 in forum

have to leave my tools.If I had a car I would only use the shed to shelter in when it rains.To be robbed time and time again is soul destroying. Somebody has stolen my favourite garden programme and let monty back to spoil it again. If any one knows


buried snails

On 07/07/2012 in forum

but what a mess it leaves. Yuk. Hope the rain washes the patio off today. Then there will be another lot out tonight. I've just got to be brave and not so squeamish! The carcases seem to attract more slugs, so you get to slaughter a few more. I find


Planting an Art-Deco Raised Border

On 22/07/2012 in forum

shape.  By this point the effect of what I'm seeing and creating is way beyond what I'd imagined in mind's eye!    A good soaking certainly brings out the colours of the stones, but the rains also hold off completion of phase 2. Grrrrr...     Here we


Welcome to the potting shed

On 28/07/2012 in forum

better weather soon Rain love the colour of the 'other' chair. Hi little-ann, long time no-see. hi how are you are you, still over the border. I didnt know you were still posting on this board, i got a bit fed up with the constant carping on the bbc


Wildlife pond advice

On 23/06/2012 in forum

and post a picture ( when it stops raining ) to give you an idea of what the area looks like If I'm thinking of the same winter, we were snowed in for three days, which doesn't sound too bad, but we live in a fairly large city. I've read somewhere one way


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