Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / November 2009

In the past, mine have run to seed in Feb/March, which
time there's little left to harvest. Any ideas why it
should happen so early? TIA.

Ireland was hit by a massive storm recently and my lawn looks
terrible, plants and trees damaged also, check it here.....^^
http://irish-oriental.blogspot.com/

Is it just me getting old or is Christmas getting earlier evey year.
And are Garden Centres now just retail outlets for seasonal goodies?
Every year shops display their Christmas wears for all to see earlie
and earlier. They put up their decorations, it seems like just afte

I have a tea olive shrub (osmanthus fragrens) and need to know how to prune
it.
First, the shrub is far out of its natural habitat of the lower southeastern
United States. I grow it in a large pot which I bring in during the coldest

I started with this nice Miltonia plant which I purchased at a local farmers
market about four years ago. It was spring and it had a few bright,
colorful, blooms. That winter, new shoots emerged. What I knew about orchids
then were that they were supposed to be temperamental and ...

I'm pleased to say that I'm having decking timber delivered today which will
be cut up to make raised veggie beds for house move garden - can't wait to
get them all set up and filled but guess it will be the New Year now before
they're ready for planting.  But hey, a whole new ...

Yep-
just got the 1st seed catalog for 2010 - Pinetree Garden Seeds.
I had some good luck with some of their seeds last year, and I like
the fact that many of their seed packets are smaller (and cheaper!)

Why bother?
The dirty f.cking AIDS ridden faggot deserved to die.

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Two weeks ago I took off the crop from our early apricot.  They were
beautiful, juicy and luscious.  Yesterday I checked the middle apricot (the
next one due to ripen) and found they were ripening already where normally
they wouldn't be ready for another 2 weeks.  Sadly in the ...

Firstly are these a gardener's 'must-have or are they the kitchen equivalent
of a sandwich toaster that sits in the back of the cupboard?
mark

Given that there is (reportedly) a shortage of allotments around the UK
generally, and that with the overall demise of garden space urbanwise what
say the group about the idea of division of a very large ex-commercial
greenhouse into "units" for people to use ?

I'd like to plant a couple of tayberry bushes in my garden. For those of
ou not familiar with tayberries (i wasn't until yesterday!), they're a
hybrid of blackberries and raspberries. According to most of the the
information i've found, they can be planted any time from september ...

I am wondering what is the current protocol for jobbing gardeners who d
weekly maintenance in a garden that has dogs 'running free'?  I hav
recently had a problem with a large amount of dog mess in a client'
garden and wonder if it is just something we have to put up with?  Wha