Bedding plants at Jersey Plants Direct

Geranium Verona Dream 50 Plants + 20 FREE £13.99
Unique designer mix with these lovely GeraniumsThese beautiful large flowered geraniums will flower throughout the summer. They are a unique designer Mix and an F1 Variety.

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Easy pond kits at Bradshaws Direct

Easy Kits – Simple to Install – Easy Kit 2000 £119.99
These kits contain the popular and simple Hozelock Easyclear all-in-one filter pump and UVC. They’ve been designed for fish keeping and guarantee clear water. Each kits needs only one electrical connection. Easy kit 2000 Makes a fish pond of 2 x 2 x 0.5 metres deep with a max. volume of 2000 litres (440 gallons). Contents Hozelock Easyclear 3000 Pump Filter UVC 35 Year Guarantee Polyex 4 x 4 metre Pond Liner Permalay Underlay to fit 5 metre hose (25mm) with 2 hose clips Kit Price £119.99 Normally £172.98 – Save £52.99 Easy Kit 4000 Makes a fish pond of 4 x 2 x 0.5 metres deep with a max. volume of 4000 litres (880 gallons). Contents Hozelock Easyclear 6000 Pump Filter UVC 35 Year Guarantee Polyex 6 x 4.5 metre Pond Liner Permalay Underlay to fit 5 metre hose (25mm) with 2 hose clips Kit Price £169.99 Normally £259.13 – Save £89.14 Easy Kit 6000 Makes a fish pond of 4 x 3 x 0.5 metres deep with a max. volume of 6000 litres (1320 gallons). Contents Hozelock Easyclear 9000 Pump Filter UVC 35 Year Guarantee Polyex 6 x 5 metre Pond Liner Permalay Underlay to fit 5 metre hose (25mm) with 2 hose clips Kit Price £219.99 Normally £293.48 – Save £73.49

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For year round colour you could visit the garden centre every month and buy something for your garden that is flowering in that month. That way you’d get (after 12 months) something in flower each month!

Digging up and dividing a comfrey plant – yield – 90 new comfrey plants!

Lots of photos and info!

I want some comfrey for my allotment so have ordered some seeds and some bocking 14 plants. The bocking 14 plants won’t self-seed but the seeds when they grow will. That’s if they’re allowed to flower of course. Regular cropping should mean they don’t seed.

Even if they did, is it a hugely bad problem? You’d just throw it in your compost heap or in a bucket of water for making comfrey tea?

Think of your plot as four sections.

The greenhouse area is not in this rotation.

Group A is beans, peas and things that grow above ground.

Group B is roots including beetroots, parnsips, carrots.

Group C is Brassicas.

Group D is permenant planting such as fruit bushes, rhubarb, herbs.

So you can see that each year when you plant Group A vegetables you should
manure the land before hand.
Where you plant group B plants you just use low density fertilisers.
Where you plant group C you lime as brassicas need lime. You should check the
pH too.

You rotate round the crops to ensure that over 3 years the soil grows different
things each year and that it has a different treatment each year.

If you never rotated the crops around your plot then you would only be manuring
one section, and keep adding lime to another section. This would over time make
the soils very different and it also allows diseases to build up in the soil.
Whilst there’s not much area difference on an allotment you will find that it
is beneficial to treat the soil differently each year.

Your greenhouse is treated outside this rule. Greenhouse plants will do best
in enriched soil which is why growbags are grown and regular liquid feeding
of tomatoes is recommended.
If your greenhouse has soil in then you might consider doing a complete soil
swap or looking at sterilsing the soil to prevent soil problems. Greenhouse
soil (or old compost) can be used on other parts of the garden – perhaps even
the compost heap or under a fruit tree.

Just seen this elsewhere –

“I am researching a potential digital TV channel in the grow your own space.
If you are an expert/big character in this area and would like to be involved I would love to hear from you.
From gardens to allotments to balcony boxes and from trees to plants to veggies to herbs!
If you have any thoughts in this area or are keen to know more about this potential new TV channel please get in touch:

leila.monks@zigzag.uk.com”

Did you know you can buy plants on EBay UK?

You can ebay uk garden plants and get some bargains!

ebay uk garden plants

Plants seeds and bulbs

Perennials
Shrubs
Vegetables/ Fruits
Annuals & Biennials
House Plants
Climbers
Tropicals
Trees
Cacti/ Succulents
Herbs
Roses
Bulbs, Corms & Rhizomes
Hedging
Aquatics/ Water Plants
Bamboo
Orchids
Hostas
Grasses
Other Plants/ Seeds/ Bulbs
Bonsai
Ferns
Hydroponics
Fresh Flowers

This is the rain barrel I got off freecycle this week! I put on a wanted ad and a lovely lady a few miles ago offered us this!
It needs some attention as it’s got a leaky tap but we can fix that! OK Nic can fix that!

Looks like some sort of giant primrose type plant

Will take another photo when the flowers open!

This is in the bottom of the hedge by Sue’s plot. There are also bluebells and raspberries creeping through. Ok, the raspberries are marching through the hedge like they’re invading!

Teesside Hospice allotment sounds like a brilliant idea!

Find out more about it here