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pair that have never been lost, and a new favourite, I've just bought a seed sowing kit from Wilkinson's with dibber, seed disperser, fine sieve and a little thingy which you lower seedlings into compost with. Love my small kitchen fork (without handle

handful of compost to fill these and let the grass grow in to this? Should I be thinking about feeding the lawn, I was even considering throwing some seed on to try and thicken up the bits where the weather has perhaps got the worst of it. For information

programme. Tonight we were treated to children sowing seeds, a ridiculous shelf making project and a feature about Garden Gnomes. It's a bit late for an April Fool, but this is certainly what it felt like. Utter twaddle aimed at people who nothing but a

bamboo canes in the middle and grow barlotti beans up them(pink and white1). From this mark out straight lines to the edge of the plot and sow pretty lettuce, red spring onions, fennel, beetroot, chard yellow, orange and red. Then, in the triangles left

, reliable variety for growing outdoors. It will need staking though. For hanging baskets and pots try ‘Tumbling Tom’Stingle – I would grow a bush variety, such as ‘Tumbling Tom’ or ‘Gartenperle’. Sow seeds now. This video project on growing tomatoes from

' and put in a couple of seed potatos. And it works really well. We had eleven good sized new spuds from a bag last weekend. after emptying and checking I put the compost back into the bag and sow a few carrots in there. I get two crops from my grow bag

stunning! I agree that David Hessayon's Vegetable Expert book is one I regularly turn to, and usually has the advice (crop spacing, sowing time or depth, etc) that I'm looking for. Some of the seed company web sites also have very good 'at-a-glance' growing

My daughter has asked me to provide some bright flowers in 3 inch pots for her wedding.  It's at the end of June, so June/July flowering. She wants 150 or so (doesn't ask much does she?) so I know I'll have to plant/sow about 400 pots to get 150

Agastache 30 Mesembryanthemum 60 that's all my seeds i sowed then been singled out. Verdun wrote (see) My stipa gigantea is full of floweriing stems.  Gigantea has a physical weakness at the first knuckle on the floweriing stems so each year I support

in the soil because of the blight so I planted them in tall pots with the bottom cut out into grow bags that way they have plenty of soil. My toms are only now turning red because the first lot of seeds I sowed didn't germinate, I think it may have been