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London gardening help!
Hi all! Hoping for some advice, having recently moved into a London flat with a garden in dire need need of some help, and I'm apologetically very new to the gardening game (but very much enjoying it)!. The front 'garden' is the usual tiny box that you see in most terraced rows, and is east facing so gets the early sun,…
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top dressing
Lawn has been scarified . ive put grass seed down on bauld patches what do i cover the seed with please? Would multi purpose compost do?
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Planter advice for a beginner
Hi I’m looking to put our house on the market in a month or so. I’m currently trying to dress up the exterior to make it more appealing. So I’m looking at cheap solutions for landscaping. I’ve had some planters made up to go under the windows. 5 in total. The ones that are made out of decking boards. They are about 40cm…
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Large planters what to fill them with
Hi, I have been given two very large planters. I am planning to grow vegetables in it. I presume I would need to fill them with 300L of something What should I use? Top soil? Compost? Both?
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Bluebells grrrrrr! ID Photo please?!
Any tips for getting rid of these nuisances – they are popping up everywhere despite us trying to get rid of them last year – those roots go so deep!!
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rusty watering can
My supposedly galvanised watering can has gone rusty and the water thus also contains rust. Will this be harmful to my veggie plants or will I have to get a replacement can?
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Thompson and Morgan - plants still not arrived
Ordered two lots of fruit bushes via Thompson and Morgan in early Feb when it a special offer appeared on the moneysavingexpert weekly email. Neither has arrived. Anyone else got theirs? Will I be entitled to cancel so I can buy elsewhere if it doesn't come soon? Their trustpilot reviews are absolutely appalling so I am…
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GreenThumb - recommendations?
Hi, I was wondering whether anyone here has used GreenThumb before and would they recommend them? I was thinking of using their services for a few times in the hope of getting a decent lawn before attempting to maintaining it myself.
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Garden wall or fence it? Costs?
Hi all, new here! Have moved house 6 months ago and it's turning into a money pit!! We have 2 13ft 2m tall garden walls (single thickness with end pillars and one central) that are both on their way out along with a curved 1m long wall at the end of those. If I look at having the walls knocked down to the first 2-3 rows of…
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Garden Must Haves
The recent posts on kneeler stools has got me thinking. What are your top gardening products or most used items that you wouldn't want to live without? It might be a mega expensive luxury item or a free re-purposed item. Or what about things you bought with high hopes that have turned out to be a lemon? For me I would say…
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scarifying
I have just had the lawn scarified they have put feed soen but there are a lot of bauld patches. Do I reseed them and if so how please
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Spring fertiliser
Hi Daft question maybe - I need to put down some spring fertiliser on my lawn this week but no idea where to start or what to get...any helpers please?
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Water feature or planter?
We have this decking next to our patio and the space between the two runs all the way under the bridge. We definitely want some form of water feature in the garden but it's not a large garden so we want to maximise the space. We need to tackle cleaning/repairing the decking, so it makes sense to plan to prepare that space…
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Lawn problems
I scarified the lawn at the end of the summer/autumn and reseeded. It looks terrible. I've obviously done something wrong. There was a lot of thatch which I attempted to remove. What should I do to get a nice green lawn? Thanks. Here's a pic of it I took today. It looks even worse in the pic than in reality. :-(
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Houseplant/s with fly infestation
I bought a couple of largish plants from ikea. I noticed a sudden influx of small black flies, which I didn't connect with the plants until a friend suggested what might be causing it. I got rid of both the plants, but what caused it.
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How long to rotavate and rake?
So we’ve decided to revamp our back garden, it’s currently a giant weed patch. So we’ve decided to rotovate it, rake and level it out and the put down grass seed. I’d like to get it done in 1-2 days and just wondering if that’s realistic? Garden is 150m2, so not huge, but a decent sized area to do. Rotovate Rake out clumps…
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Restoring a large polytunnel
Hi all I'm currently restoring a large (25ft X 15ft) polytunnel on my allotment. The tunnel was slightly damaged by fire during the previous owner tenancy. No serious damage to the frame which appears very sturdy, but all there is, IS the frame. I need to recover it and build a new set of doors for one end, the other end…
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Rebuild garden wall
Can anyone give a ball figure for rebuilding garden wall. it is only around the plants, about 3-4 bricks high. Will probably need new bricks/stone as old ones grotty. On 2 sides of average garden. I know there are lots of variables here but just need to know if I can afford it
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Dead Apple Tree ?
I've got a very very old apple tree Lord Lambourne I think. In the six years I've known it, it's cropped reasonably well only a couple of times, but always blossoms and comes into full leaf. This year it blossomed, but what few leaves did appear eventually dropped off Some of the branch twigs are brittle (apple is like…
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BBC Gardeners World 2019 - Discount Code?
Anyone care to share any discount codes? There's usually loads about but I can't seem to find any :/
