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fimonkey wrote: »

May I ask a question please? I have a path that is 1metre wide by 9 metres long. I want to cover it with gravel/pea shingle,.. how much do I need and how deep should it be please?

Thanks in advance

ive found (and this probably aint gonna help sorry) that when i went to buy the bags of stuff to use that it tell me what size and depth the product should be ... i bought some slate once it recommended 25mm deep and told me on the bag that it would cover roughly 1/2 mtr squared ...

if your buying in bulk from a builders merchant i would ask them what they recommend for depth and then get them to work it out ...

misskool

cooking-mama wrote: »

can anyone give me advice on my cucumber seedling plants please,they are between 2 and 3 inches tall,with around 6 leaves,but some of the leaves have a white spotting on them,and some of the newer lower leaves have turned yellow,they were in 3 inch peat pots,but ive repotted them last night into big 9inch pots,will they survive,or should i start again.Thanks.
PS,they are indoors on windowsills.

Scorch marks? Did you water the leaves and then the sun burns the leaves where the water is?

Otherwise, it's still very early for cucumbers and if they get too leggy, they won't do well. cucumber stems are prone to rot and they don't like being repotted too much. Pop a few more seeds as an insurance?

rosie383

What low growing veg plants can I put in my garden? I have one nice sunny plot (I'm lucky I have another less sunny one and an allotment), but most of what I have seems as if they will be quite tall and need to go at the back of it against the fence IYKWIM.
So the back fence is taken up with raspberries, sweet peas, a fragrant honeysuckle (put in last year and haven't seen hide nor hair of a flower yet!!!), a solanum (I think that's what it is), a couple of roses and broad beans.
I have some bare areas in front which I want to use up. I put in some salad leaf seeds yesterday but can't think what other veg I can put in that won't hide all the nice bits at the back.
And another wee question..... is lobelia hardy? I think that's what I planted last year, and it has lasted the winter and now there is quite a nice carpet of it in the flower bed. Otherwise it's a weed and I need to get rid and use the space for something else that is low growing.

elantan

as far as i know a courgette is a low plant .. figured this out by the three sisters method of gardening the runner bean the sweetcorn and the courgette for the bottom ... it should help keep the soil wet for the taller plants with its leaf coverage

kimmie

Hello :-)
Does anyone know where I can buy shed accessories please.

Orange_King

rosie383 wrote: »

And another wee question..... is lobelia hardy? I think that's what I planted last year, and it has lasted the winter and now there is quite a nice carpet of it in the flower bed. Otherwise it's a weed and I need to get rid and use the space for something else that is low growing.

You must have been very lucky with the lobelia - mine usually die away during the winter and new seeds have to be obtained.

What kind of accessories are you looking for kimmee?

GarnetLady

I went to get my tomatoes and strawberries in a little while ago. They're sitting on a growbag tray and after my slug encounter earlier I was inspecting everything when I found a white grub of some sort, just lying in the tray. And my tomato Alicante had a little bit of what looked like blue mould on the very tip of one of it's leaves. Any ideas if I should be worried by either of these things?

misskool

GarnetLady wrote: »

I went to get my tomatoes and strawberries in a little while ago. They're sitting on a growbag tray and after my slug encounter earlier I was inspecting everything when I found a white grub of some sort, just lying in the tray. And my tomato Alicante had a little bit of what looked like blue mould on the very tip of one of it's leaves. Any ideas if I should be worried by either of these things?

Are your tomatoes outside? Its still too cold for them to be outside.

What sort of white grub? It's too early for caterpillars and they aren't interested in tomatoes.

Could you possibly take a photo of what you mean by blue mould?

GarnetLady

misskool wrote: »

Are your tomatoes outside? Its still too cold for them to be outside.

What sort of white grub? It's too early for caterpillars and they aren't interested in tomatoes.

Could you possibly take a photo of what you mean by blue mould?

My toms were only out when the sun was, they don't get much light in the house.

The grub (which looked fairly dead actually) reminded my of a woodlouse, about 15mm long.

The mould has been snipped off and disposed of. It was a tiny patch (few millimeters) of blue fur over the very tip of the leaf.