Do you GROW? Page 44

Quote: Lazzard @ February 8 2013, 12:22 PM GMT

Sort of depends how big it is.
If it's bloody enormous you might be better off pruning it quite hard now-ish then waiting till Autumn.

If it's just ordinary size, tidy it up a bit first, but don't hard prune it.
Dig a big enough hole around it and try yo get as much root and soil up as possible - bearing in mind it's the hairy fibrous roots that will be doing most of the work.

Have your new hole pre-dug (not where you've had a rose before) and water it in well.
There is a powder you can get which REALLY help establish new plantings http://www.unwins.co.uk/rootgrow-mycorrhizal-fungi-360g-pid3720.html
(not the only brand - Google for others)
If your plant is precious, it's well worth the few quid.

Good luck

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Thank you. It's not very big. It needs to be moved asap and is very precious so will get some root powder.

Quote: Lee @ February 8 2013, 12:27 PM GMT

You look deep into her eyes and... oh, you meant something else.

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Hmm, well that's useful advice too Lee considering my real name I will get OH to test it on me.

Just spent too much on plants.

This last year I have grown

into a cynic

Gave my dad a grow your own bonsai tree kit for Christmas

4mm growth in two months

Is it worth getting a few seedlings on the window sill?
Too early for Tomatoes?
Maybe some Basil then just to get into preparation for the big push

It's about now I start to sow pots of salad mix as a cut and come again crop in the greenhouse.
About 2nd week in March you can start to cut a few baby leaves.
'Saladisi' is a good mix.

I never trust whether weeds have popped up in the salad leaves.
they always look a bit random.
Or maybe I leave them too long without checking.

I like growing little lettucces (Letteci?) though

Quote: Lazzard @ February 8 2013, 11:39 PM GMT

It's about now I start to sow pots of salad mix as a cut and come again crop in the greenhouse.
About 2nd week in March you can start to cut a few baby leaves.
'Saladisi' is a good mix.

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I'd grow them all year 'round. I know they flourish in the summer, but little salad leaves are so easy to grow.

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ February 8 2013, 11:45 PM GMT

I never trust whether weeds have popped up in the salad leaves.

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How do you think they control this in the fields?

Grow little Lettuceseses
Instead

Isn't that sprouts?

Thank god
At last an expert

I do have green fingers.

But a very clean nose.

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ February 8 2013, 11:06 PM GMT

Too early for Tomatoes?

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Judging by last year's summer, the correct time to sow them is 2011.

Serious answer:Yes, too early, otherwise they just grow weakly and never do very well.

If the weather report is to be trusted, might actually venture into the garden this W/E.
Expensive plants need planting.