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As Girl Guide Leader I want to plant some tomatoes with 20 x 5-7yr olds. We will plant the seeds "tomato gardener's delight" and then the children have to take them home to care for them. They will bring them back to transplant to pots and then home to grow on. Do you think this is an easy project as my own children took great delight in planting and EATING the end result last year. I wanted our Unit to share in this delight.
I have got as far as you have given about pruning grapevines but you did not, it appears, show how to prune them.
I am thinking of investing in a Greenhouse / polytunnel but unsure which I should buy. I realise that the greenhouse will have more ventilation but what would you recommend. I'm considering something about 6 X 3 metres?
We recently invested in a tunnel. We have been studying lots of gardening books but we are now confused!! But thats easy! would you suggest growing the plants directly into the ground or grow in containers. would I set seeds now or wait until the end of February, I have a propagator.
I have a Bougainvillia about 7 years old It is thriving on homemade compost. It is full of green leaves and purple Flowers and some of my family want cuttings when can I take cuttings?
Im doing agricultural science for the Leaving this year and for my project Im using potasium nitrate as my fertilizer. Im wondering where I can get it pure or almost pure or if there is a brand of it in garden centres.I have a fertilizer of NPK ratio 15-5-30. What percent potasium nitrate would that be?and would it be good for tomatoes.
I would love if you can help to name this plant, it's been in the family for generations growing in a tub. We devide and share out the bulbs every couple of years but have no name for it. It produces these beautiful flowers in August/September and needs little attention.
I am wondering about protecting my container plants, dahlias, bay trees, petunias, dianthus, etc, from frost over the winter. I have a large covered area that I could put them in but I am not sure if this would entirely protect them. Should I buy one of those plastic/temporary greenhouses and put them in this instead?
I need to find a supplier who sells heavy duty foil for polytunnels and greenhouses to change my own greenhouse before winter. My greenhouse was covered with something like that but due to weather little holes appeared, this is why I need something stronger. I don't want to throw my wee greenhouse away, it has a good and strong frame, and besides a new one is expensive.
I have an aeonium canariense (two tone - green and sort of aubergine! Anyway - I potted it on to a bigger pot in June and it thrived. But in the last week it appears to wilt during the day. What should I do?
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