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New to the Gardening board? Start here
💬 Some other boards on the Forum with a similar ethos * Green & ethical MoneySaving * Crafting * Old-style MoneySaving ℹ️ Some relevant guides elsewhere on MoneySavingExpert.com * Gardening on a budget * Home, garden & pets deals 💡 If there's a link you think we should include here, please send me a message!
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arkonite_babe's very useful Gardening Index
MSE update August 2014 Check for any offers, discounts etc on our Home & Garden and Gardening pages. If you have updates to add please PM either arkonite_babe or Pink.. MSE update March 2022 Please note that some of these links are now out of date. Back to the original post... Below is a list of useful links for gardening…
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Awful weather - typical Brits talk
Well it's been downright awful here in Somerset for the last couple of days with non-stop rain! Just wondering how committed you lovely peeps are... have you been put off by gardening when it's raining? Are you a shrinking violet or a hardy perennial? Just a light hearted thread ☔🌧️
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The ups, the downs and the insides out of growing your own in 2026!
Welcome to the new ups and downs of growing your own! Everyone is welcome. Come and tell us about your growing shenanigans Maybe tell us a bit about yourself; What do you like to grow? Are you going to try anything different this year? Did you try anything different last year? Did you like it? Would you grow it again? Do…
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500+ Strawberry Plants, Almost No Fruit – Heatwave Damage or Something I Did Wrong?
Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice and also wondering how this year's season has been for other strawberry growers. Last year I had fewer than 50 strawberry plants, and they produced an excellent crop. Encouraged by that success, I expanded to more than 500 plants this year. I put in a huge amount of work preparing…
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rose arbour collapsing
down one side of our garden there is a long arbour over a path. in the flower bed on one side there are 2 very old climbing/rambling roses that have been trained up and over the arbour. the branches had originally been pulled down through the arbour so as to anchor the plants to provide a roof of sorts over the path. in…
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Help with weeds taking over
Hello everyone, I’m new to the forums and looking for some advice on tackling my overgrown patio. I hope it’s okay to ask here. I’m 30 and this is the first time in my life I’ve ever lived in a home with a garden so I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing. Please be gentle and excuse my ignorance - I am totally winging…
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Flowerbed Improvement
Hi All, This is the flowerbed at the entrance to my house. I've recently bought the house so I've inherited what the previous owner has planted. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to bring this to life? Thanks in advance.
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Reliable expanding hose brand?
While there currently isn't a hose pipe ban here yet, we need another expanding hose. Like I guess many ours recently split. Looking at the reviews on Amazon, pretty much all brands seem to have issues, even Hozelock, although at least they have a 5 year warranty that might actually work. Any thoughts on whether it is…
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Cementing over soil
Hi all, Not sure if anyone will be able to help or whether I need to go to a specialist place for advice.. Ive removed our old wooden shed and there is parts of one side where the new metal shed will go that is currently soil and I wanted to cement over the soil but I didn't know if I could just put some normal cement over…
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Hose pipe bans
I live in one of the areas that has just introduced a hosepipe ban! Typically the Water Company's FAQs are very ambiguous as to whether this applies to (micro) drip systems and come to that what constitutes such a system? Any idea what is the norm? Apparently there is a seven day delay before the ban (which has started)…
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Fuchsia dying or struggling this year
Has anyone else had problems with fuchsia plants this year? I usually grow four or five different varieties around the garden, but this year I have only one healthy plant which is a hardy one which survived the winter (the only fuchsia that did). All my other hardy fuchsias died, and I bought replacements most of which…
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Dahlias
I'm growing 2 dahlias for the first time. One has produced a flower, the other has buds. Novice question, do they repeat flower or just produce one flush of flowers? At what point should I lift them and pop them in the garage? Can you store them bare, or do they need to be in pots of compost?, if so, do they require any…
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Lilac suckers, anyone?
i’ve been in my house 25 years and there is a lilac tree that was already well established when I moved in. It’s planted on a little bit of a bank with very dry soil. Various plants also there but also some quite big stones to give a garden edging. The suckers are coming up more often than they did last year and some of…
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Mini irrigation piping/fittings suppliers?
Hi all, does anyone use a mini-irrigation system for your garden and if so, could you please recommend a good place to get the piping and fittings? We have 1 large and 1 small greenhouses and several raised beds, plus few pots too, all growing veggies and herbs. It takes about 2hrs to water everything by hand and sometimes…
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Advice on laying turf
Hello, we had our garden landscaped when we moved here about 5 years ago. Part of the process involved raising the level of the lawn area and laying new turf - this all went well. In subsequent years we have noticed an area (small 'L' shape) where the grass always turns brown in periods of low rainfall.We believe that this…
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GreenFly - A 'flylady style' gardening thread with weekly tasks to tame your garden
What do we mean by GreenFly? Over on old style there is a long running and supportive community who focus on getting the house clean and tidy in smaller steps. A group of us thought that something similar for taming the garden would be very useful so here it is. The idea is that by doing little and often we can get on top…
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Done a silly thing
Can anyone beat this? Rushing out this morning I picked up the lemonade bottle I fill with tepid tap water waiting for the water to cool down to drinking temperature. Chucked it on my cherry toms, then realised I'd just emptied mr Middlewife's ginger beer 😧 so added more water. It's diet so won't have any sugar to feed…
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Where are all the bees?
What's going on? Is it the horrible wet spring? We've got a lot of lavender and verbena in flower in the garden. Previous years the garden would be teeming with bees, and this year there's almost none. A small bumble-type bee earlier, and some very small honey bee-like types. Not many butterflies, and we're not exactly…
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GARDENING EXPRESS
I have just received my order from Gardening express and have to say they are a waste of money - when I tried to send them back they have refused to send a label. This happened last year and most of the plants have died. I have cancelled my account and realise that you get what you pay for. If you go for this CHEAP DEAL on…
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Tyre exploded!
I need a new wheelbarrow tyre/wheel - I was on a work call earlier and heard a bang and couldn't think what it was until I went out in the garden just now…
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flexible border recommendations
A very good morning all I am looking for flexible (maybe) border edging. I have a robo mower, so need (budget) lawn edging, but the lawn is not a straight edge, some is, some isn't. I am thinking plastic as it would last longer and be more flexible than wood, but robust enough to survive the strimmer. I think it would need…
