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As I put a plastic bag he plants his leek seeds for what I mean by the use of the over the pot to conserve wa- next year. That is obsessional IN YOUR word ‘sun’) and I bought it ter and heat, I then close the dedication to a cause! Admit- because of one I had seen in tunnel doors- with my fingers tedly he is growing in climate GARDEN Tregony which flowered so crossed! Of course they will controlled conditions in his well in late January and all of not all root but bearing in home greenhouse but the pho- February. It should be pruned mind that a new plant will tographs make it look more this immediately after it has fin- cost around £20 it has to be like a laboratory and I have ished flowering and if it has worth a go. The clue how- some serious catching up to do become rampant can be ever may be in the cost of as mine were planted in Janu- If it is still raining when you pruned to the ground. the new plant. We pay for ary! read this then you will under- That, of course, will encour- difficulty or for growing It seems that every day I have stand why I am almost at a loss age very vigorous growth. Do time or both. a posted plant or seed cata- as to what to suggest your not be tempted to prune it too [photograph of Nicola’s logue plunge to the mat by the March gardening jobs might late or you will cut off next clematis on page 4 - Ed] front door and at least twice a be!! I have managed to put all year’s flowers. However I I mentioned that I had day I receive emails from the seeds in that should be sown find I have to do a little light planted seeds in the tunnel. wholesale seed and plant mer- now, but only in pots in the trimming, with extreme care, There were the usual broad chants trying to flog me the tunnel and with some gentle or it becomes triffid-like very beans growing away in pots latest hybrid something or heat to aid germination. I have rapidly. I have no wish to and a rather lurid red variety other or the latest in trendy also tried some very early deter you from this wonderful that I am growing for a gardening gadgets. And I ask spring cuttings, particularly of plant. I have no doubt that friend. I have also had some myself, do I need ultra- cush- the winter flowering clematis the top dressing applied to the fun this wet winter sourcing ioned knee pads in ‘day glo’ ‘armandii’. border it is in and the abun- seed from exhibitors who colour of my choice? Would I This particular clematis has dance of water has now pro- grow the ‘largest, longest or use a wooden thing that makes flowered beautifully in January duced this glorious show of heaviest whatever’. plant pots out of newspaper? and throughout February. It was flowers this winter. Its cheery The beauty of this amazing Could I accommodate a string planted three years ago and, blossom and delicate fra- internet is that you can not holder that is three feet tall, true to form, when first planted grance has brightened up the only source these seeds from has a point for ramming in the it sulked for a bit and then grew gloomy days. the exhibition growers but ground together with striation at a reasonable rate. In its sec- I am advised that it is one of you can read their tips for marks to double up as a long ond year it grew at a very un- the most difficult clematis to growing giant cabbages and handled dibber (this is playing reasonable rate and had to be propagate. Mine was not overlong carrots, leeks and havoc with the spell checker!) pruned back and carefully damaged by cold weather this runner beans, and you can Would my days be better if I trained. It can become a real year and was growing apace watch videos that actually had a handy flat- packed wheel thug if you do not take care that with new shoots everywhere show and tell you how to do barrow in a colour to match it goes where you want it to. so I decided to give cuttings a it. my knee cushions, is there any Give it lots of room, a fence or try. It is as simple as picking a A prominent resident of Ver- merit in a knife shaped purely strong trellis to climb along, (or new shoot with two adjacent yan was extolling the virtues to remove weeds from my even better a tree to climb up) leaves and roughly 6cm of of these teaching aids. He paving,( my husband’s chef and remind it regularly where it stem, nipping out the growing needed to make some Eliza- knives are perfect!) a mid- should be before it wraps itself tip, slicing a piece vertically bethan ruffs (don’t ask!!) and handled shrub rake, a Japanese round the neighbouring plants. at the bottom of the stem to he was explaining in great razor hoe or- wait for it-a hand If you have a specimen that is increase the root growth area detail how easy it was to sieve, perfectly crafted to sieve rampant then you may be sur- and putting it carefully around follow a written instruction potting compost on to a four prised to hear that they are dif- the edge of a pot, buried right on a web site and how he inch pot? ficult to establish. up to the bottom of the two found following a video so And whilst I watch those lurid They are not cheap to buy and leaves. much more difficult. red broad beans emerging therefore a failure comes at Very fresh hormone rooting I have to agree it is the same from the pot (suspecting they some cost. I did a fair amount powder may help control fun- with these exhibition veg. will be green when cooked) I of research before I planted gal disease but do bear in However, this year I am de- marvel at a list of cultural mine and then realised that the mind that a pot of rooting termined to have a go at gi- hints for growing transparent research was probably wasted powder that has been in the ant leeks, cabbages, onions, blackcurrants, pink blueberries as I knew where I wanted to put shed for 6 months or more another shot at a humongous and no, please no - yellow ge- it and the location was probably will have lost all its proper- pumpkin and a trio of raniums! not ideal. The experts will tell ties. It may take at least two lengthy runner beans and a And finally, I must politely you to keep it out of cold winds months or more to put down singularly lengthy cucumber. ask Mr Grigg to desist from that may burn the leaves. Mine roots and where the leaves Now it may all end in tears, advising people that mine are was exposed to such winds and were large I have trimmed particularly with the leeks. ‘not proper pigs’. Indeed, as that is probably why it looked a them also. Anyway there are The champion grower, who with so many of my garden bit brown and crinkled and took pots of them on the propagat- finds time to write vast plants, they trace their heritage its time to establish. ing bench and with a little tomes on the internet, grows back thousands of years to the Equally those experts will tell heat and a secret propagating his leeks for shows from South Pacific via New Zea- you it thrives in shade on a trick, I am hopeful. Yes, you June to September.