Gardening Resources & Tips

[herbidacious]

Thanks for pointing that out, Scully. I think I deleted my email without reading it. What bargains! I have placed an order.

[Earthmaiden]

Is there a way of washing large garden pots without getting soaking wet? I've an outside garden tap which provides cold water and an indoor shower with hot and cold whose drains I don't want to clog up. I'm revamping my garden over the winter to make it easier to manage and will be getting rid of a few pots, some plastic, some nice ceramic (pots are so hard to maintain, they need watering all the time and attract mud from nowhere on the ground around them) which I would like to clean before giving away.

I think it might be on with the waterproofs and out with a good brush .

[herbidacious]

I don't wash mine, really but if I did, probably a hosepipe and a builders mixing bucket.

https://www.toolstation.com/flexi-tub-4 ... lsrc=aw.ds

I suspect getting wet is a bit unavoidable.

[Earthmaiden]

Yes, I think it is!

[scullion]

i don't wash them much either but if i did, yes, a hose and a big trug.
i wish i lived nearer, i'd take the ceramic pots off your hands!
try putting them on marketplace. i think our daughter looks on there for them (she's up in the vale of the white horse).

[Earthmaiden]

TBH it's the plastic ones which I'll probably get rid of first (there aren't that many, the garden is tiny!). Not quite decided yet as the downgrading will probably go on through the winter.

[Suffs]

Oooh! East Ruston Old Vicarage features on GW this week
https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news ... ers-world/

[Stokey Sue]

You have reminded me I have meant to get one of those bucket things (I think of them as Gorilla tubs, as that's the first make I saw) - handy for lots of things, some people use them as laundry baskets

I have spent a lot of today outside with my new snips, snipping, I was worried about my winter savory as it seemed to be pulling apart, deadheading has revealed that all that was wrong was that the weight of the flower stem and seed pods was pulling some branches off position, it loos fine now it has had a haircut. Have also sorted last season'ss bulbs, and swept and cleaned gutters