Once you have made some comfrey liquid, how much of it do you put in a 2-gall watering can? I presume you don't use it neat?
Alison.

I haven't been posting, as I have been fully occupied trying to get our garden back into proper order after the chaos of last year, since we are opening it under the NGS next Sunday, June 24 2-6pm, if anyone is interested,and Teas are available! Web ref: m We opened our garden for the NGS in London,...

I ordered, amongst other things, some sweet peas from Thompson and Morgan last year, and was annoyed to be told they would be delivered in spring 2007! I cancelled the order. And now they have arrived..... with a leaflet that says: "Your plants are ready for planting out... they have been pinch...

I just dried a mix of varieties, depending on what I had, to give it a try. The little ones dried better if I took the seedy wet middles out first, and were nice when dry as they were pretty. The Roma-type tomatoes (San Marzano) were much fleshier and therefore dried better and chewier - the cherry ...

It actually grows quite quickly, if it establishes properly in the first place, and it is reasonably easy to train it as a fan. You could get an ordinary first-year tree (which would establish better, being younger) and train it yourself to the wall? We did this, and it worked very well, with big cr...

many thanks, that's really helpful. I hadn't thought of putting a melon in one, but what a good idea, as the melon goes all over the greenhouse. Could the melon grow in a large pot, or should I dig up the ground?
Alison.

Here's a really ignorant question: apologies. I have got two cold frames, which I got cheap when I bought the greenhouse. I haven't assembled them yet. I am thinking of putting them on the ground just outside the greenhouse, where it is stony, very weedy and couch-grassy. I have never used a cold fr...

Bore da, Alan! Yes, I tried a search and got nowhere. It looks a bit like something called King Alfred's Cakes, but that is meant to have concentric rings inside when you cut it open, and this one is just dusty. Thanks for the answers, anyway. We have cut it off, and will see if it resprouts. I have...

The book I have is the one by Nick Kollerstrom. It consists of the first half saying why the system works, and the second half is a day-by-day diary, with space to fill in your own notes. Using it is having rather a nice spin-off, in that I am entering in on each day what I am sowing and what other ...

This is not exactly a gardening query, sorry! We found a fungus/mould growing on the inside of our wooden window frame, in the crack where the vertical wooden frame meets the horizontal wooden window sill. The fungus was an irregularly-shaped solid, looking a bit like a smallish piece of liver! Abou...

Is this any good?
http://mowdirect.co.uk/acatalog/GARDEN_TROLLEYS.html
We have what some call a Sack Trolley, which is convertible, so it is either a flat-bed or an upright one, which has proved useful even for items of furniture (not pianos...)
Alison.

Several years ago I had a nasty outbreak of a particularly vicious caterpillar on a rosa hugonis, which ate through every single flower bud for two years. I thought it was a long time coming into flower, but it wasn't until I looked really carefully at it one year and saw all the tiny deformed buds ...

I've got this book with a calendar giving, for each day, what should be planted or sown today, depending on the phases of the moon. Yesterday and today was peas and beans and other plants that you eat the fruit of. Tomorrow we are into roots, so I shall sow some parsnips. Saturday is great for flowe...

There is a temptation to try to seek the One Perfect Answer to global warming. There isn't one, whether we consider nuclear power, wind turbines, solar panels and so on. No "magic bullet", as they say. What we need is an energy policy that uses a little bit of everything, on a smaller scal...

There is such a lot of information about, it is difficult for just one programme to be sufficient on its own. And it is difficult to decide who is a "pseudo-scientist" and who is a "proper" scientist as they often belittle the ones they don't agree with. I am more inclined to go ...