Tickle the earth with a hoe, and she will laugh with a harvest

[Rhubarbgarden]

Potting shed chat for all those interested in wittering on about gardens and sharing the love of plants. Plenty of dusty old deck chairs to sit on and sloe gin to warm the cockles; join us!

Ha! Persicaria orientalis is Kiss Me Over The Garden Gate, which I spectacularly failed to grow from the seeds I bought at Great Dixter. I agree it is lovely, though, and I love all the lime green nicotianas. I have never bought anything from SR, although you lot keep mentioning very tempting things!

Don't start buying from.Sarah Raven. Once you do then she sends catalogues full of beautiful photography which is hard to resist.

I have been out for a spot of deadheading in nightie as per Monty's instructions.

The weathers pretty grim today, so no allotmenting for me

Yes, I get the impression that the SR catalogue is very seductive!

I'm in a grump because the iPlayer failed after about 10 minutes. I'll try again tonight.

That's a pain, can you download the episode onto something g, then watch it instead of streaming it?

Sorry about the weather Frog. If you have a Garden Centre Group garden centre near you, maybe a trip there to stock up on seeds -50 a packet on s huge amount of both veg and flowers?

I've never quite got the hang of downloading ::Luddite emoticon:: but I may have to try, if iPlayer is still misbehaving this evening.

Funnyperson, as soon as BabyCobbler is more independent I would love to!

Good thinking sugarplumtree - any excuse for a trip to the garden centre!

If you go into search and type in Gardeners world, then click into latest episode, instead of clicking on the arrow to play, there is a little thing below saying download which you click on .

Then when it is finished it will be in the download bit -either on the bottom as in photo or on my phone app it is at the top. You can then watch it on your device minus Internet connection .

Thank you!

This afternoon I will mostly be buying tulip bulbs. And in "good news, bad news", the brugmansia I bought in the Hampton Court sell-off is developing a second wave of flowers, but the sole plum on my plum tree has dropped off and been eaten by slugs. Sob.

Thank you, Maud, I've been thinking of having brugmansia in a pot this year, and you have prompted me. I think I'll go for a potted version under the carport.

Today has been all about spring soil wetters and seaweed tonics before the final mulch for the summer.

In the veggie bed the rainbow chard, lettuce and rocket are still doing well. Broad beans are in bloom. The sad plants' unit tangerine is on the turn after eight weeks of pampering, while our newly-planted apple trees still look like twigs.

I've just returned from Aldi, managed to spend over a £100 which is a first. Obviously plants fell in my trolley, there is the most wonderful assortment of autumn plants for pots grouped together for £3.99 -one of each , cyclamen, hedera, wallflower, dianthus heuchera and trailing viola. They look really healthy so I bought two! I also bought 50 daffodil bulbs for £2.49. They were also selling lots of plug plants 24 violas, and zingy pansies. I'm also contemplating a grass scarifier I think it was £60.

frogbubbles ? Welcome or name change?

I banned the dc's from the lounge and watched gardeners world, agree it was emotional, and the garden amazing. Does Monty have any help In His garden does anyone know?

AAAH Echt what did you do to 'turn' round your tangerine tree?? My lemons are still so annoyingly unhealthy I'm seriously considering chucking them and buying dh some more for Xmas (he wants to hang onto them because I gave them to him 5 years ago for xmas but he's like that with most things ) anyone married to a hoarder? It's worse for us because his office is our sitting room !!!!

I must peruse garden sites for tulips. Monty's orders to buy now so I shall.

The runner bean arch is in fine fettle now. It suffered badly when we went on holiday in July so I cut it back, fed and mulched and it's totally revived itself. The other beans on the igloo are coming to an end so it's great timing.

I too loved Horstio's garden.

Horatio's garden!

That is some arch!
Yes, Horatio's garden, made me cry, and Monty's twin sister, and all the ill people who need gardens to heal. Like us when we're poorly, or our relatives, like my poor old partially sighted and bed bound dad and alzheimery mum, and how little I manage to get them out into their own garden, and how little we manage to do, and how nice it was that Horatio's garden had been made, and how I wish that all hospitals had gardens where the patients could sit out like they did years ago when matron made them sit out every day.

I'm new to this thread and to the world of gardening callmegeoff. I got my allotment earlier this yer and it is a right old mess, overgrown, boggy and neglected. It's going to take awhile to get it back to a fully functioning allotment. But living city centre I jumped at the chance. I'm sure I will get there eventually.

Ppeatfruit I would love a lemon tree can they be grown from seed or would you recommend buying an actual plant

Maud I too love all the lime green nicotininas
As to persicaria there seem to be many different sorts

nicotinianas I mean

We were talking about garden sculptures a while ago- there are some wonderful ones at `Wisley atm for sale

Another vote for green nicotianas - there were some at Nunnington last week as well
I always thought I was totally uninterested in garden fashion, but there was something rather stylish about them....

Best of luck with the allotment, Frogbubbles. The advice I have heard is to clear a little bit at a time - the size of a tabletop.

I have a plant question. The back of my house has a very narrow bed (about a foot) right up against the wall, all the way along. It faces NE and the garden slopes up away from it, so fairly shady.
Any planting suggestions? I'd like to put just one thing in it, to make it look neat, and with such a narrow bed it needs to have small leaves, I think. It needn't be too showy but scent would be a bonus.

I have a lovely lime green nicotiniana that has sprouted in tub with some rosemary, it must have been a stray seed from last year's plants. It is much healthier and more beautiful than those I grew deliberately- just showing what an effect getting pot bound and drying out more than once does to your plants

Tunip I would probably plant a geranium of some kind there but I expect everyone else can think of something more exciting.

Oh yes, Humph. Similarly, I have never managed to grow lobelia from seed but it sometimes self-seeds in the cracks of the front garden paving.

I have lobelia in the patio cracks too Maud, and I can neither grow it from seed nor keep plants alive particularly well if bought as plugs!

My best squash this year too is a Turks Turban which has sprung up in the middle of the carrot bed, presumably from seeds in my compost.