Need Gardening Advice Please
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It would be a good idea to spend some time with the Royal Horticultural Society book "Gardeners' Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers" - the library should have a copy if you don't want to buy it as it is a pricey but invaluable book. It is arranged by size and colours of flowers and when they flower and includes a guide to small trees. The R.H.S. also publish a range of small guides (quite cheap) on different types of plants inlcuding one on designing a small garden. I would also recommend Charlie Dimmock's nice slim volume "Enjoy Your Garden" which is a very readable and interesting guide to starting gardening with the emphasis on enjoying it. I hope that this is useful. You could also have a browse around your local nursery garden for ideas and tell the staff which way your garden faces, soil type etc and they are usually very willing to help because they want you to get good value from your purchase. Good Gardening,
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Thanks for the post, lots of help and information there for me to be going on with. Will have a trip to the library first I think. Pam
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Pleased to hear that the information was of some help. I am not sure whether you are too far away to visit the Three Counties Show in Malvern starting on the 19th of this month but if you can make it you should get some useful ideas there too. All the best,
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I grow herbs in pots. they look and smell wonderful and are grest in cooking. both sage and lemon thyme come with gold coloured leaves and are very pretty. I have a cat,4 chickens and 2 rabbits so i find herbs best.
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You can make one quite cheaply from suitable lengths of alkathene pipe with lengths of dowel or cane inserted into the ends to enale you to sink these into the ground although this might not be strong enough for larger structures, It is a good idea to dig a trench around the outside of the structure so that you can sink the plastic membrane into this thus making it a lot more stable. I would recommeng the book Gardening under Plastic by Mr Salt, and experienced former Head Gardener from the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham. This covers all aspects of setting up a tunnel greenhouse and managing it. Best of luch with your project,
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have you got a polytunel?
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Yes I have a poly-tunnel which I used for tomatoes last year but have not used much this year; most of what I have done this year has been in the open ground on raised beds. Geoff Hamilton's Gardening Course book gives some useful advice about protecting crops and these are cheap options in many cases. As perhaps you know, he was broke for much of his life and went bankrupt on no less than eight occasions. During one of his programmes he told the tale about one occasion when he had to start a business with only £8 to his name. The business at Barnsdale happened much later in his life and he always believed in re-cycling things to use in the garden as you will see if you have/intend to visit - it is very worthwhile to see. Incidentally, would you care to tell me what part of the country do you garden in? What sort of plot do you have and what do you grow? I hope you will forgive my being inquisitive but I am always interested in hearing about what other people do and often go to Open Gardens events and things like that when I can. I recently had a trip to the Three Counties Show and the Organic gardens at Ryton. The Three Counties is more about livestock than plants at this time of year although there are some horticultural displays but i hope to see the Autumn Show which is usually worth seeing. Ryton ( near Coventry) gardens is a place I have never been to for a number of years and and was very glad of a return coach trip with the Allotment Society yesterday. They were pioneers in organic methods long before they were fashionable and they are doing some important research work with disease resistant strains of vegetables and some of the traditional plants which are not approved for commercial sale these days and hence have to be sold to subscibers to comply with the law. You would find it interesting to have a look at their web-site even if you cannot visit the pace, I think. I f you want to continue to exchange messages with me about gardening or anything else that appeals to you, my e-mail address is [Log in to view email] Best Wishes,
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I live in Swansea. My garden is a long ex council plot. I have trees and chickens at one end, a lawn kept short by two rabbits and a large green house. Like you i try to reuse as much as possible and found that my daughter's raincover for her pushchair made a lovely closh for growing lettuce and small veg. Your advice was very interesting and useful
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