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Salamalaykum Brigadier sb ... nice blooms. How is your garden these days?

Salaams Apologies for my absence but have been quite busy these days with my sons wedding. I am currently in Pakistan. Madiha.....Extra Potassium usually double the quantity of normal fertiliser produces larger and intense blooms. You can also achieve this through burying a few banana peels or a sma...

See my reply to your other post. It is John Innes compost

Looks nothing like a Dianthus seedling

My friends it isn't always Chor Bazaari, they are a commercial venture. Roadside land is expensive and you would have to sell a lot of 20 rupee plants to break even. Its not the price of the plant alone but the care, nurture and attention it requires that adds to the overall cost. It is the same the...

It is a potting compost that is commercially produced and it come in four distinctive types. It is called John Innes and the formulae contains loam, peat, sand or grit, and fertiliser in varying ratios for specific purposes. John Innes Seed compost: for sowing new seeds John Innes No 1 compost: sowi...

Fired bricks in general leach out lime and salts, Kiari absorbs all the lime and salts in the firing process then leaches out the most so it isn't an inert clay material. The more you water, the more efflorescing salts are transported to the surface of the harder material and thus the plants roots a...

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not getting a better job or a bigger wage packet. You will regret time not spent with your family, a friend, a child, or a parent.

Time spent doing something you enjoy is not time wasted.

Its the English who are famously attributed to exceptional queue etiquette.

We in Pakistan seem to have a herd or first come first served mentality.

Personally having benefit of seeing the photographs I would have been tempted to restrict planting to 1 or max 2 types of fruit and fan/espalier trained them along the wall. Its something that isn't very commonly practised in Pakistan. At the front still have some room for overhanging annuals. http:...