I'd certainly repot the plants although you might need to take cuttings if the roots have died back too far. And into a good well-drained compost. But, as suggested, it is most likely that the fungi have simply been consuming the dead and dying vegetable matter in the compost - although there are mo...

Can anyone remember - not that it was that long ago so I'm not checking on anyone's age - when the UK gardening programmes started a trend for 'dry weather' or 'Mediterranean' gardening ? You know with all that gravel on top and various succulent plants. Probably the 90s on the TV but I wonder, and ...

try led panels for grow light. i dont know how to figure the area they cover though. I'm fairly sure that the purpose made panels are so designed as to not spread the light emitted by the LEDs so for all practical purposes the area of the panel is the area that it will illuminate. Having said that,...

I've just been doing some tagging of various photographs (actually looking for some of the property which I'm trying to sell) and I see that these plants were in much the same stage in 2014 although perhaps a few days in advance of this year and one was in flower on the 2nd. - the first in flower an...

And today I noticed that three out of four were above ground - must have been a couple of days ago in fact. And so I thought I'd do a quick repot; I do find that while these sorts of bulbs may not appear to need very much surface area (although that's not the case with Massonias, with their horizont...

That's a fair bit of damage - especially to the plant ! Does make one wonder about polycarbonate...here in west Wales hail is not uncommon although with far more normal size lumps but I do worry somewhat about the polythene cover on my tunnel, I'm not sure that it could survive the sort of ice lumps...

Coir is readily available online, I bought mine a couple of years ago from http://www.fertilefibre.co.uk/ although they seem to be having an identity crisis or perhaps are suffering from DID (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder but that is the subject of some great doubts i...

... even the most ardent conservationist would have to agree that peat-free media are much more difficult to manage than peat-based ones... Completely incorrect - I dare say I would be termed a conservationist although others would be needed to attach the appropriate adjective but I find coir-based...

I probably have said this before (or you could certainly infer my opinion from previous posts) and perhaps I may so again - there seems to be a never ending stream of posts about how awful commercial mixes are - so don't use them, mix your own! When I started growing cacti etc. I doubt that there we...

And so, deciding to have a look for other suppliers I've just found: http://www.crowders.co.uk/buy/plant-pots-and-planters/grow-trays/seed-tray-premium-38cm-green-stewart for £2.29, and to indicate how up to date duckduckgo/yandex is I noticed that this thread is at number 17 Crowders do sometimes h...