Creating and maintaining gardens in France, French plants, ponds, gardening tools and machinery, etc
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Last post by Hotrodder
Fri May 12, 2023 9:34 am
Protecting the fruit blossom
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Polarengineer »
Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:17 am
What can you expert gardeners recommend to protect the fruit blossom? What sort of fleece do you use if that is the best method? Are there any quick...
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Last post by Spectrum
Sun Apr 03, 2022 9:24 am
Just cut the hedge
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L Austin France »
Tue Mar 29, 2022 6:49 pm
and didn't take my hands out of my pockets IMG_20220329_140215_compress80.jpg IMG_20220329_141121_compress89.jpg
only one & a half hours work for...
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Last post by Veem
Wed Mar 30, 2022 6:44 pm
A Potting shed?
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Spectrum »
Tue Mar 22, 2022 1:25 pm
Where to buy one in France, or get one imported from the UK, any ideas? Have translated it to French as Hanger de rempotage but it comes up with...
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Last post by Quiksilver
Wed Mar 23, 2022 8:26 pm
A busy day
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Spectrum »
Mon Feb 28, 2022 3:02 pm
A list of seeds sown and to be sown today and tomorrow
Leek 2 var
Toms 4 var
Melon 4 var
Aubergine
Beetroot
Peppers
Buddleia
Cineraria
Scabious...
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Last post by Spectrum
Tue Mar 01, 2022 1:17 pm
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Last post by Char
Thu Feb 24, 2022 5:52 pm
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Last post by tagh
Fri Feb 11, 2022 6:51 pm
Just sown my first seeds of the year.
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stormmexico »
Mon Feb 07, 2022 1:42 pm
I have just sown some chilli seeds, I am using a heating mat to get them to germinate. I am using the same variety as last year, Piment Magnum which...
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Last post by Bayleaf
Wed Feb 09, 2022 9:02 am
My new toy
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L Austin France »
Tue Jan 25, 2022 4:31 pm
It arrived today & boy does it work well
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Last post by Hotrodder
Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:23 pm
Poly-tunnels ??
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Char »
Thu Jan 20, 2022 2:15 pm
I've had one for donkeys years now, but I stopped using it for growing several years ago because it gets too hot for plants during the summer, so the...
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Last post by Char
Mon Jan 24, 2022 4:38 pm
St Catherine's Day 25th November
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Bayleaf »
Thu Nov 25, 2021 8:40 am
As hinted by myself and Liz in the Weather thread, today is St Catherine's Day.
Here is an interesting (somewhat grim but lighthearted) backstory. I...
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Last post by Sparkle
Thu Nov 25, 2021 9:51 am
Arggghhhh! Chigger bites!!!
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Bayleaf »
Tue Oct 12, 2021 9:30 am
Is it just me, or are they really bad this year? I am a gardener by trade, so spend a lot of time crouched down in lawns, tending to flowerbeds etc....
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Last post by Blaze
Wed Oct 13, 2021 1:51 pm
Help with Plant/Weed ID
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Crystal »
Tue Aug 10, 2021 1:39 pm
This plant/weed has started to invade one of our paddocks.
I don't know what it is and googling didn't help, but I'm sure (or hope) that some of you...
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Last post by Blaze
Fri Aug 13, 2021 9:52 pm
Dealing with invasive Bamboo
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suein56 »
Tue Aug 10, 2021 11:29 pm
I am still digging out the wayward 'roots' of the 'contained' bamboo plant my OH removed and destroyed from our garden a while ago. Planted by the...
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Last post by basquesteve
Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:27 am
Gale damage
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tagh »
Mon Aug 02, 2021 12:43 pm
Dammm it, most of my sweet peas have been destroyed by the storms, even in the greenhouse some tomatoes have been ruggered and the rose buds are...
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Last post by Blaze
Wed Aug 11, 2021 6:58 pm
Trees having a difficult time
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RobertArthur »
Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:12 pm
So far we lost six trees this year in our garden. And even when I look from the bright side of the road when touring here in the Nièvre there are too...
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Last post by Doug
Sat Jul 31, 2021 6:10 pm
Poisonous giant hogweed plant
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banjobob »
Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:27 pm
The pictures are horrific, he touched a hogweed plant in the UK but France also has a problem with these plants too. He has third degree burns. I...
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Last post by Spardo
Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:13 am
Beautiful but Uknown
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Oldblueraincoat »
Thu Jul 22, 2021 10:21 am
We have this lovely shrub/small tree in the garden that was gifted to Madame OBR about ten years ago as a sapling and was cultivated in a pot and now...
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Last post by Oldblueraincoat
Thu Jul 22, 2021 7:56 pm
Wall plants
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banjobob »
Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:45 pm
We found this plant doing well, no idea what it is.
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Last post by banjobob
Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:56 pm
Too late / early to sow?
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MAD87 »
Fri Jun 11, 2021 4:25 pm
I have various unopened seed packets, some of which I should have sown in the last few weeks, some are theoretically too early to sow.
Given the...
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Last post by Liz
Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:45 pm
Slugs and snails, and their sorry tales!
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Bayleaf »
Sun May 23, 2021 12:11 pm
As I mentioned briefly elsewhere, I have had to declare war on these slimy little b*ggers!
With all this wet weather, they have defied my current...
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Last post by Bayleaf
Tue May 25, 2021 8:31 am
Heatwave
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Doug »
Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:02 am
Be interesting how fellow gardeners are coping with this very hot weather.
I have been slowly pulling beetroot to use in the salads which we live on...
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Last post by Bayleaf
Sun Jul 28, 2019 4:09 pm
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