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[quercus]

i have two lavendar plants outside my flat but am not sure how to take cutting off it? can anyone tell me what i should chop so as to get a nice root going? have done other plants its just that lavendar looks all fidly and i dont see how a root will grow off the flower bit.

Take a heel cutting by tearing off a a side shoot (without flowers) and trim any raggy bits of bark that come with it. Its a bit late for taking cuttings like that from but you could still try.

 

[magicbastarder]

well, my rhubarb is coming along fine, and i have signs of life from the onion sets i planted a week or two ago.

plus, some of the seeds i collected while out walking in a forest have started to germinate - i wish i'd labelled the pots, the only ones i can identify are the hazel and horse chestnut.

 

[Diddles]

i wish i'd labelled the pots

I made up three big pots with all manner of plants in them and nerver kept the labels

I did, however, keep the labels on the 8ft tall pear trees. In case I mistake them for something else, like.

 

[Ellie_M]

I have a lavender plant in my room.I keep it near the window as thats what the florist said to do.I water it but never give it food.Am I supposed to?

if you got it in a florists there should be fertiliser mixed in to the soil(mainly vermiculite or perilite) these are in the soli to make it porous for the plant and to distribute nutrients through the soil as it slowly breaks down.
just keep in mind where the plant comes from and treat accordly eg lavander likes sun has deep roots and dosent need too much water...

when you water it put some water in a tray for about an hour then remove this stops the roots getting too dry and the fertiliser wont get leeched for the soil...

always remember when the pot drys out leave the soil dry for too days then water this helps the the plant use the water it has.

 

[magicbastarder]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/25/activists.conservation

 

[magicbastarder]

this is gas - the author of the above piece threatened with arrest (by about six officers) for planting flowers on a public roundabout in london:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/apr/25/guerrilla.gardening

 

[magicbastarder]

poor ould monty don had a stroke about six weeks ago. minor one, but he's taking the summer off to recuperate.

 

[Gabbo]

poor ould monty don had a stroke about six weeks ago. minor one, but he's taking the summer off to recuperate.

Jesus he's not that old, is he? Saw it earlier on the chelsea garden show, which is so fucking cool.

 

[Cara]

poor ould monty don had a stroke about six weeks ago. minor one, but he's taking the summer off to recuperate.

My mum just told me he's not going to be on Gardener's World anymore

First Geoff Hamilton, now this!!! Gardening, it's a risky business.

 

[magicbastarder]

he had a serious illness while filming 'around the world in 80 gardens' too. peritonitis, i think.

 

[Cara]

He's famous for having that seasonal affective disorder thing too. Seriously, gardeners, they're all either unwell or dead. Now if only the same were true of Alan Titchmarsh...

 

[magicbastarder]

he's got god on his side.

 

[Cara]

he's got god on his side.

Noone with a face like that has god on their side

 

[magicbastarder]

have just been looking at the forums on the bbc gardening site. if wishes were health, joe swift would be in the grave.

 

[jane]

Someone should get this: http://www.designtoscano.com/produc...e+of+montclaire+moors+sculpture+-+db383020.do

I would, only I'm so freaked out by zombies that even funny zombies make me feel scared.

 

[Diddles]

Someone should get this: http://www.designtoscano.com/produc...e+of+montclaire+moors+sculpture+-+db383020.do

I would, only I'm so freaked out by zombies that even funny zombies make me feel scared.

Jesus, Jane, why did you make me look at that site? Now our garden's going to be filled with resin statues of mythological beasts!

 

[jane]

Jesus, Jane, why did you make me look at that site? Now our garden's going to be filled with resin statues of mythological beasts!

I hope so!

What could be better? What, like a bunch of flowers? Why flowers when you could create a garden-statue interpretation of Black Sabbath's The Wizard?

 

[Diddles]

Saw one of these in a shop in the Ilac the other day. Very classy.

 

[MARYJANE]

hey, i've been wondering this for a while and tried to google it before but came up with nothing.. so maybe someone here knows..
i had some spring onions i bought in the supermarket start to sprout on me in the fridge, so i thought it would be funny to plant them out in the garden and see what happens. that was a couple of months ago and now this one spring onion is getting a bit jack and the bean stalk. it would be up to my chest if it didn't flop over from being so huge.
is it edible? can i treat it like giant chives and just cut off the green stalks?

 

[flashback]

I think it would taste very strong.
I haven't tried it though.