Can we have a Gardening topic please?

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Does anyone else thing we should? it would sit well beside recipes after all.

Yes, please!

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Yes please, my garden is a terrible mess and i haven't a clue where to start.

I have the opposite of green fingers . Would like to think I would use a gardening thread, but I probably won't. Same as I never look at the recipes thread, oh, unless the title has the word "chocolate" in it

But do think it would be a nice addition.

My garden is only little, but I love it and think a gardening topic is a great idea.

Count me in

We recently 'had a man in' who did the basics for us, and we've decided to do the rest ourselves. A specific place to ask my many gardeneing questions would be fab.

Was only thinking today what a good idea that would be. Have just sown some onion seeds this weekend but stupidly threw away the packet and don't know what to do next. How long do I leave the seedlings before thinning and what kind of a gap should I leave between them? This is my first attempt at growing veggies and I'm already lost!
Have just planted some crocus bulbs in the front garden and am waiting a couple more weeks before planting my tulips.
I am sure this kind of post could be very boring to some people though...!

Yes please, count me in.

Bunglie, have you tried bran for your slugs? (Saw you mention it on the party thread)

BooMama, tbh I wouldn't bother with onion seeds as they're too fiddly, but get some onion sets (they look like garlic cloves). You just push them in the ground spaced about 6inches apart & next thing you know you have onions (well, in about 12 weeks). There are types you can plant now, or you can get spring planting ones.

Thanks Bettys - that sound more like something I can cope with. I can only go for straight forward put-them-in-the-ground-and-watch-them-grow gardening! Means that since kids I have many empty plastic propagators stacked up in shed.
Will look out for them. I wonder if Crocus sell them? I want potatoes too...

Maybe I'm dense and can't navigate their site but Crocus don't appear to sell any vegetable plants. Can that be right? I normally go to my local garden centre but just fancied a browse and couldn't find a thing!

Absolutely - one after my own heart - will get right on it.

BooMama - try Thompson & Morgan

Bran?????
I have just burried milk pots with Carlsburg in!!
Do I have to put bran in, will weetabix do?

My dh is laughing at me....
He said after feeding them, giving them a drink am I offering them a ciggie next....
I knew I was a misunderstood Bunglie

Thanks Bettys - have just requested a catalogue.
Re slugs and beer - ir really works! We had an awful slug problem in our old garden and this really helped when we needed to steer the blighters away from vulnerable plants (ie everything). I also felt that maybe they died happy.

just to warn, our dog drank the beer with decaying slugs in last year, cost us £25 at the vets to sort her stomach out!

Grim! Luckily we had no pets then (unless you count the slugs themselves)

i was thinking this ttoo...i woudl like to know what to put in my pots to cheer me up through winter. winter pansies and ???? what else?

Have just bought some narcissus bulbs called paper whites which I have grown successfully in pots indoors pre-Christmas. Don't know how well they do outdoors but they are really pretty.

A gardening topic would be great. Lots of enthusiam but not much success

Boomama, garlic is easy to grow! I bought some from the garden centre, you get one big clove, just shove it in a pot and that's it.
Oh, and half a grapefruit placed in the garden is great for killing slugs apparently, or if its to protect pots, vaseline smeared round the rim is a good deterrent.
I would love a gardening thread!

Dahlia - you have an excellent id! Garlic is an excellent idea - we eat enough of it. I presume that (as with potatoes) you have to use the proper 'seed' version, not just one from the kitchen that has got a bit sprouty?
Another question - we have a pear tree with loads of pears on. But they still seem very hard and are not coming off easily when you pull them. Do you need to pick them and let them ripen afterwards? Will they rot if I leave them on the tree? There might be a frost at the end of the week...
Once picked I will probably be on the recipe section trying to find 101 pear recipes!