The RHS has just published a review of the most common questions they’ve been asked about over the last year. Here is a list of the top 10 culprits. [...]
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According to the Gardener’s world team this is a good time to be making hardwood cuttings. In general you’re better off working with the tides of nature – soft fruit and soft cuttings are often best done in the spring when the plants are really into growth. However some plants go well at this time of year. [...] In the middle of all this is a bed of Caliente Mustard. It’s one of those plants that secretes stuff from its roots that the bad guys in the soil don’t like – it’s kind of green manure with attitude. I’ve taken the liberty of photographing the notice so you can be fully informed. [...] Red Spider Mite and Chafer Bugs are this month’s threat to your garden. Stock up with friendly predators to get them before they eat your plants and lawn! You can get them via our sister site www.ladybirdplantcare.co.uk. [...] Life is much easier because we have our own potting bench. We grow the plants in the small modules that you can see top right and here we’re potting them out into 12 cm pots. We’re using Soil Association approved potting media which contains a fair amount of recycled peat and is very easy to handle. And so I put some of this in the bottom, sprinkle a pinch of Mycorrhiza on the bottom to promote rooting and help the plant access Phosphate, pop the plant block on top and then fill round the edges of the pot with the compost which I firm up by pushing down with the fingers. [...] Since we’re likely to be planting out hardy things from mid march, we might start to think about getting seeds going in propagators and in the glasshouse. We already have a lot of stuff going in our propagation area as the photo graph shows but we’re going to be planting out under glass. In fact we’ve been busily clearing the ground in the glasshouse for this year’s planting. [...] One of the problems with saving seed is that plants don’t always breed true. So you might be better off cloning some of the ones you’ve already got and saving yourself a fortune in new plants. [...] Basically, plants like raspberries and peppers are grown close together and the lower leaves are quite shaded. It’s been found that under these circumstances the lower leaves are not contributing very much in the way of photosynthetic production. Removing the lower leaves has the effect of reducing the water burden on the plant (since it cuts the amount that the plant can transpire through the missing leaves) while not affecting the plant’s ability to be productive very much. [...] |
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