Online Discussions for the Garden Enthusiast

I am a pharmacist and have a bottle of potassium nitrate. I figure I can just work it into the soil when I prepare my garden as fertilizer?? Or should I sprinkle it on the ground after the plants are growing. I also have a bag of lawn starter fert...

Having survived the hot summer when they go dormant my globe artichokes are re-growing now the weather is cooling. And guess what.... I am going to have autumn flowers as well as the usual spring ones. I could get used to two crops a year. Halle...

Anyone know of a supplier of any Symplocarpus sp. (not foetidus) I've found Crug Farm Plants Website but their p&p makes the plants out of my financial reach. Thanks. Ford.

Slime to some, of interest to others. Make of it what you will.... ....and good luck. Charlie, the zealot -- http://transition-times.com/2010/03/08/the-local-food-and-farming-revolution/ excerpt: by Michael Brownlee Here’s my quick, thumbnail ske...

This year I plan to have over 250 tomato plants. I have made lots of raised beds, 3X6 feet. Last year I put groups of two plants every 2 feet (12 to a bed) so that two plants could share a single cage and a single drip emitter. This year I thin...

Aldi has (or had ) moisture and pH meters in stock at about £3.50 each. Branded Gardenline. The moisture meter seems to work; haven't tried the pH meter yet.