Lidl - Gardening Stuff

steady__eddie

":eek: Do you have to remove them? Does this make for better growth?"

The story goes that if you remove the flowers on first year plants, then the plant will produce considerably more fruit the following years. (Jam tomorrow). I must admit that I always do this even though I haven't got the willpower to quit smoking but I always take runners every year so that I have a succession of new plants. Sorry if this sounds a bit anorakish.

"The only drawback may be pollination, you could leave door open on sunny days [and hope squirels leave them, or go round with a small paint brush when in flower"

I had this prob with free range "pet" rabbits who took a liking to my tomatoes and vines but overcame it by making a door out of plastic netting which I secured to the entrance when the glass door was open. I had to reinforce the bottom foot with wire netting as plastic was no match for their teeth.

teedy23

I just dont think I can do this... tell you what, I,ll deflower (ahem) one of each variety and see how that goes.

~Chameleon~

The reason for nipping off the flowers when first planted out is so that the plant can concentrate all it's energy into producing good root stock rather than flowers/fruit.

Bongedone

Just a heads up

http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20080428.index

louise_1981

Netto have garden stuff in at the minute.

cabbage, cauli salad plugs, bark chippings, compost with John innes plenty of veg and flower seeds, new arrival today, acer trees of varying colours

nodwah

Don't know if these are countrywide.. but Lidl is having plant specials eg big sack of daffs for 3.99 and various evergreen plants, roses and stuff.

Ice_2

Hi guys & gals I went into my local Lidl today, and wow...I got a rhododendron (red) for £4.99 well grown in its own pot quite big really very healthy and the cheapest I have ever paid...not only that I got 2 (red) heather's very healthy too for £1.29 each...2 silver dust 59p each a skimmia japonica bush for £2.49 the last one of those I bought cost me £8.99 from a flower shop...2 (white) roses for £1.29 each and a pack of (red) bulbs £2.49 with a mixture of 5 different bulbs...I wanted to have a colour themed corner border type theme...which is a corner of the garden that I have been sorting out for afew years getting it weed free and well cultivated so now its ready to plant so have gone for the red and white theme so for £16.31 I have got everything I need to fill a small corner of the garden and make it into a themed border...I also have 2 rose border's either side of this corner...so that's where the white rose's are going to be...either side of the red themed corner...not bad for the price really...

so get yourself into your local Lidl and see which bargains you can pick up...I can't wait to get into the garden tomorrow and the rest of the weekend...wow...this will keep me busy for afew days...
enjoy...
Ice...xx
:happylove

Pippilongstocking

Yeah
was in Lidl last night, plants do look good, but watch out for labels as they had named some of plants wrong!!!

olly300

fayjmck wrote: »

Yeah
was in Lidl last night, plants do look good, but watch out for labels as they had named some of plants wrong!!!

When I was in Lidl last week they had packaged some of the bulbs up with wrong labels.

Ice_2

fayjmck wrote: »

Yeah
was in Lidl last night, plants do look good, but watch out for labels as they had named some of plants wrong!!!

oh the naughty beggers...no I have cheacked and they are what they should be...lovely...:D