I am growing my early potatoes in various containers but these canvas sacks look to me to be a great idea.
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There are two great uses for Geraniums that make it worth growing these fine flowering plants. Outdoors they make fantastic border plants and the red varieties are very popular in formal bedding schemes. The second use is as a long flowering houseplant and if you deadhead and feed you plants you will get lots of geraniums from one windowsill plant.
Grow from seed, plug plants or cuttings. They root quite easily from spring cuttings. Plant out when the danger of frost has gone. Geraniums can go straight into a border/bed or be put in containers, troughs or baskets. Pinch-out the growing tip in April to encourage bushy plants. Feed in summer with a high potash fertilizer to encourage more blooms. Geraniums can survive with little water so can be planted in dry conditions but they do appreciate a drink like the rest of us.
Use one variety or colour and plant together to get a bold swathe of colour. Keep you best plants over winter in a frost free area. I use my garage windowsill. Old plants can provide good cutting material to increase your stock and a two year old plant often has far more bloom. Try some scented leaved varieties of Geranium. They do not flower as well but the leaves give off a strong scent when brushed or crushed. Indoors I like the Dwarf and Miniature varieties which are now more widely available. Indoor plants can be pinched out several times to create a bush well ‘furnished’ plant before allowing it to flower.Regal Pelargoniums are the blowsier cousins with showy colourful flowers more suitable for indoor growing. Ivy leaved Geraniums are trailing plants most suitable for baskets.
A wide selection of geraniums are available from Thompson Morgan
Read about the Geranium flowerheads on Gardeners Tips
I am growing my early potatoes in various containers but these canvas sacks look to me to be a great idea.
Daffodils are classified into 13 divisions and currently one of the most popular is Division 8 Tazetta Narcissi. These are a group of low growing daffodils that are at home in rockeries or containers.
Grow with the flow and in early spring that flow is in the greenhouse
Growing Hyacinths
When one man went to mow it was to mow a meadow. Do you want to let your lawn get into that state? If not here are some tips but probably not enough to get you a stately home lawn.
This is one of the many books in my collection but the only one to focus on growing big, bigger and biggest vegetables. If you want to grow giant vegetable for exhibition or to get large crops then there are many pointers in ‘How to Grow Giant Vegetables’ by Bernard Lavery and below.
I am no great fan of large leaved hostas probably due to lack of space in my garden where I prefer to grow other plants. However the dwarf varieties are easy to get on with.
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Buying tips for indoor Hibiscus. Smaller plants with3-5 branches each with buds are generally the best value. If they loose there buds new ones should soon follow. Look at florists and chain stores as well and garden centres.
The Pacific Bulb Society has a large report on numerous species.
Great big flowering Dahlias need some good support early in the season. A walled garden helps but these 4 by 4 canes with string every 12″-18″ add that bit extra. When the plants leaf-up and start to flower they will be heavy and liable to damage without support.