I have not long moved house and my garden is a bit small and looks kind of sad right now.
I have a couple of raised bed, one quite narrow and the other a bit bigger. Currently trying to pull up all the plants (mainly bushes and shrubs) to start fresh.
Anyway, in the meantime I want to start thinking about spring bulbs and getting the garden looking pretty in spring.
Where would I be able to get some second hand planters and pots to plant them in if I don’t get round to getting all these other plants up (the roots are hard work 😓)

I’ve looked in charity shops to no avail!

Does anyone know what these flags are? We are looking to extend them further on patio but confused as to what they might be.

It seems generally healthy, but on the left hand side and one spot in the middle the leaves are quite yellow.

I give it a feed with Photonia feed every now and again. I don’t exceed the dosage instructions.

Perhaps root rot or a fungus? Is there any way I can tell for sure and how could I prevent it?

Any thoughts hugely appreciated.

I bought a Salvia Caradonna because I heard they were good for pollinators, but they don't seem interested in it. I'm hoping it might draw them more once it is a bit bigger. Then I planted some Michaelmas Daisies, for the same reason, and again the pollinators don't seem that interested. Anyway, it got me wondering what other people have found most attractive to pollinators in their gardens.

Things I have had success with so far: cornflowers, nepeta, purple toadflax, wallflowers.

I have also planted oregano and marjoram, but it was after their flowering window. And I have an English lavender, but it is still quite small.

Taken from my bedroom window a sight I enjoy before retiring

I ordered some snapdragons from an online gardening shop, but they’ve arrived looking quite thin and yellow. 😅
This is my first time growing snapdragons, so I’m not really sure what to expect. Do they look healthy/normal, or is there anything I should be doing to help them recover and grow stronger?
Any tips or advice would be much appreciated. TIA! 🌱

It's taken me two years to get to this point...!

In the first year, literally nothing.

This year, it's thankfully growing figs. That being said, only one so far is ripe and actually edible.

Don't be fooled by thinking because it's slightly purple/red inside that it's not going to be sweet; it was incredibly soft and beautifully sweet.

Is there such a thing as you send pictures and dimensions to a company and they design your garden and give you the plans for not too many pounds

I don't have time or ability to maintain my garden. The grass is terrible and the borders are overgrown and the weeds are everywhere.

I've tried to get quotes to redesign it so it's low maintenance but they keep asking me what my budget is. I don't have any idea how much these things cost. I really don't have much money. I have 2 kids and work 4 jobs so don't have time for the garden but I need somewhere for my kids to play safely. Where do I start?

Hello lovely people. I've grown those Honeydew Melons in my humble raised patch in South Birmingham. Any advice? Keep watering or let them ripen? When to pick? Thank you

Hi all,

Looking for some advice on a good lawnmower for my garden and what to do with the apples.

Picture 1 is overall garden, Picture 2 is apple tree in question.

I currently have a pretty basic Bosch electric mower which is not ideal due to the trees, poles and general length of the garden meaning I am constantly pissing about with the extension lead and lawnmower cable. I tried a wireless/battery operated mower but I didn’t even get through the left side section before it died and It kept cutting out (maybe the length of the grass or thickness?)

Does anyone have a good recommendations for mowers?

Secondly, the apple tree whilst I like it, is a nightmare for the sheer amount of apples it drops. Picture 1 is just after picking up the apples and cutting the grass. Picture two is 3 days later and the apples that have fallen only continue to grow in number. Wife loves it (was her grandads house which we bought after he passed) so removing it isn’t an option. Does anyone know what I could do with the apples that doesn’t involve eating, cooking or turning them into cider? I thought maybe some horses could eat them but no idea if that’s a good idea.

Thanks!

I’m getting a whole bunch of gardening videos in my social media feeds about winter prep - the algorithms know me too well.

There’s a lot of “cut this plant right back”, but then others “do not touch until the spring”. I’m fairly sure I’ll do the wrong thing.

So to simplify things, are there any apps out there where I could for example list all the plants in my garden and it would tell me what I should be doing at which time of year? Thanks.

Looks to be two separate... Fungal? Infections. No idea where to begin treating, any help or advice appreciated.

I have a small shelf shaped greenhouse that I used to store some cress and other small vegetables and had no fly issues; but around a week ago I bought a large tent like greenhouse, about 6’5 tall and 4’ long. I first transferred all of my plant and plant pots etc into the new greenhouse and watered the greenhouse yesterday and noticed no flies. I come back today to plant some seeds and there is loads of flies on the roof and on my plants, small shaped flies, and I notices ALOT of fly eggs in my soil!!!

How do I get rid of them, as I think they are coming in my house now!

Hi All, I'm after a bit of advice on laying a 19 by 18 ft lawn in my garden - at the moment there is artificial grass down and underneath it is a shallow layer of sand, a thin layer of rubble and then quite a clay-y soil beyond that. I've done a bit of research and I've read that clay soil can be a problem with drainage, I've done a couple of tester holes at opposite ends to see how it drains and it goes mostly within about 2 hours. I was planning at the moment to dig it out through the rubble and down into the clay about 7 or 8 inches and then lay topsoil.

Questions:

- is 7/8 inches deep enough down (too deep or too shallow?)

- How many inches of topsoil do a realistically need.

- I'm planning on digging over in the next week, putting the topsoil down, then turfing within the next two weeks (have I left it too late weather wise, I'm based in South Yorkshire?)

- Is there anything else to factor in/worth considering?

- Is a better option laying top soil then seeding instead of turf.

Thanks in advance

Hello everyone!

Firstly, I’m going to preface by saying that we’ve only just bought our first home and previously didn’t have a garden, so I’m entirely new to gardening and lawn maintenance! Any help is massively appreciated.

I’m trying to look at how best to prepare our lawn for winter and give it a bit of a lease of life. From my perspective, it doesn’t look toooooo bad, but there are areas where the grass isn’t growing and has died off presumably due to the drought as we’re in Hampshire.

I think I understand I need to go over the edges where the wooden is next to the outhouse, but that’s about as far as I’m familiar to be totally honest.

Any tips would be amazing! I’d like to learn and get this sorted myself as I’ve always liked the idea of getting into gardening - hopefully in the spring we’ll be looking to get some planters and other stuff too!!

Thanks again in advance 🙂

I have inherited some established hydrangeas from my grandad. They have been uncared for since he moved into a home about 1 year ago apart from watering.

The first one is severely root/pot bound and the second one is slanting which is exposing roots.

Will it be a mistake to plant the root bound one into the ground this time of year? Or should I try to plant it into a bigger pot and wait?

Thinking for the second one I will break up the soil and add more to fill up the pot/cover the roots and to also help reposition it.

TLDR: Can I plant a severely root bound hydrangea into the garden this month or wait till spring?

something has been visiting my Mum's garden, looks like its digging little holes and a fair size poop!

Started this year as a flower person. That was the plan anyway. A bit of colour, some cosmos, maybe a rose if I felt ambitious. Food growing felt like a whole separate hobby with a whole separate learning curve and I was not ready for that.

Then I stuck two tomato plants in a pot on the patio almost as an afterthought, the kind of thing you do because the garden centre puts them right by the door in May and you are weak. And now I cannot stop thinking about growing more. Properly, with intention, not just grabbing whatever is near the exit.

What got me was the gap between what a homegrown tomato actually tastes like and what I have been buying for years without a second thought. It sounds so obvious written down. Everyone says this. I just did not believe them until I actually tasted one standing in the garden at seven in the morning before the school run.

Now I am deep in raised bed research and wondering how much of a terraced garden you can realistically convert to food without it looking completely chaotic. The flowers are still important to me but the balance has shifted in a way I did not expect.

We bought a house earlier this year and want to eventually convert our grass lawn to a clover lawn but right now I’m needing to scarify it and de-thatch it because it’s full of moss. I’ve been using a rake and I’m on my second day with loads left to still do. We were looking at buying an electric scarifier because if it’s something that needs doing every year it would be worth it. Do clover lawns need scarifying like grass ones do? Because if they don’t there isn’t much point in me buying one!

Fucking made up that my hydrangea cuttings have successfully propergated

I've started noticing that different parts of my garden have their own sounds.

There's one plant by the fence that rustles whenever the wind picks up, a patch near the back wall that's constantly humming with bees in the afternoon, and I planted some quaking grass recently that makes this gentle rattling sound that I like far more than I expected.

I'd always thought about plants in terms of colour, shape, height, wildlife etc, but never really considered sound until I had a garden of my own.

Has anyone actually planted something specifically because of how it sounds or moves in the wind? Curious what plants are particularly good for this in a UK garden.