Gardeners Corner - The Friendly Gardening Forum

Have any of you, lawn-rakers, experienced far fewer problems with poa annua this year? Normally, come May, thousands of their ugly heads aggressively rise in anger, ejaculate their evil seeds, then surreptitiously crawl undetected in the undergrowth, choking and devouring their betters. This spring, for the first time in decades, I saw very few. Have you found the same? If so, h...

Hi, I'm not new to sowing seeds but have also had this question at the back of my mind so thought it was about time I asked.

Over the years I've used multiple types of 'container' to propagate seeds;
Seeds soaked in paper towel (in a sealed bag), Seeds in a small pot, Seeds in a seed tray.
All of the above in a heated propagator, all methods have had success but...

Hi, my mum loves these begonia's and in the past I have bought her tubers which she still has and overwinters each year. I have seen a few slightly different cultivars that I know she'd like but every time I see them, they are just cuttings stuck in one of those horrible t bags. So I was wondering if anyone knew if they would form a tuber in the same way a dahlia cutting would o...

Can you bury the stem of a leggy courgette seedling to the first leaves, like you can with tomatoes?

Or will that rot the stem?

Can anyone explain whats going on here and what i should do ?