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petrol bush cutter! I just finished adding 3 new 50x4 footraised bed.And a 15x15 potato bed for 1 potato plant started from a nice 2.75 lbs seed potato I acquired. I hope for harvest 600lbs from this plant.I started my tomatoes seeds 7 days ago

carrot seedling in my bedroom at the moment and have other seeds to sow: sprouts,runner beans, leeks, sweetcorn, lettuce, carrots f1 hybrid, herb lemon balm, sunflower, wild flower teasel, beetroot, poppy, cabbage, cornflower blue diadem, pumpkin

.  Oh, and I'm looking forward to the clove-scented pinks (dianthus) later in the spring. Nicotianas are good, I also love the scent of wallflowers. I am growing Siberian Wallflowers from seed - I sowed them late autumn and they are now starting

think it got too cold between the curtain and the window. Still plenty of time to re sow. Once you have pricked them out, give them good light and avoid drafts. I find a bit of fleece useful in the early stage after potting on - cuts drafts and stops sun

, I have some yellow ones .... will look for some more colours, your right they do flower late and grow great in my clay.... I bought some pink seeds to try this year , hope they work. Don't think I've ever had sweet William I've started some

the back of the border. Collect the seeds at the end of the season, put them in an envelope and sow them in a tray next Spring. You have some more plants and some to swap with friends. Perhaps friends might be splitting perennials and will give you some

in a few more, and to see how many insects they manage to attract this year! Every spring i sow wildflower seeds and this is an fantastic way of encouraging wildlife in to any garden from a wide variety of butterflies to the bumble bees

fine stinging hairs which penetrate my gardening gloves. A picture would help but it may be green alkanet Well borage has 5 pointed blue, flowers, self seeds prolifically and is hairy/bristly but I'm not sure about the penetrating gardening gloves bit

more than when I started !!!  From sowing the seed in the greenhouse it all goes well, but the minute I put the seedlings (and much older plants)  in the beds they quickly start to struggle. Some die within days, but mostly they just hang on and grow

I'm a beginner and decided to sow sweetcorn to grow in my newly acquired greenhouse (having just moved house). All 13 plants are growing very well and are now over a foot high, after potting on. However as I live in central Scotland I was intending