Best lights for growing baby palm trees indoors, before eventually planting outside. Also thinking about one that'll also give me a tan!

[Accy cyclist]

If you decide to buy a plant go to Barton Grange. Easily the best quality, and most expensive, plants in the northwest.

We used to pass that place on our Wednesday North Lancs CC ride, on the way back from the Copper Kettle cafe in Garstang. My mum and dad also used to go there on Sunday afternoons in the 1980's.

 

[Accy cyclist]

The little roots that suck up the water / nutrients have been snapped off, plus it's pot bound, IE the pot is full of roots with very little room for soil.

What is actually needs is a bloody big hole digging and planting in the ground and I reckon it would recover. You could try digging a shallower hole and smashing all the bottom of the pot off it so the roots get access to the soiled that way.

I'd love to plant it in the ground, or get someone to do it for me, such is its weight, but unfortunately the soil in and around the garden area isn't deep enough. Before I moved in here trees fell over after getting too big, but without strong enough roots to hold them up as their roots couldn't dig down enough for stability. These flats are built on a site that had terraced houses on. Not only the flats but the garden area as well. A neighbour told me she had someone push a rod down as far as he could to test the soil depth and found it to be around 8 inches before touching old foundations etc. Having said that that's the middle of the garden area. The sides look higher, so maybe it'd be worth finding how deep the soil is on the sides. I've asked the vicar of the 15th century church up the road if he'd like it in his grounds. He thanked me for the offer, but said a palm tree wasn't in keeping with the look of such an old church. I had a thought last night about the old folks etc community centre across the road from me. They've recently done their garden up. I might ask them if they'd like my palm tree in their garden. 🤔

 

[fossyant]

Can I request a batch of tomatoes please !

 

[Accy cyclist]

Can I request a batch of tomatoes please !

Grow some pungent smelling as possible garlic https://specialtyproduce.com/produce/Bogatyr_Garlic_6425.php in the pot to help mask the smell of tomatoes, I've been told!

 

[T4tomo]

Classic developers, even on a new site they sell off the top soil before they start building, then leave gardens that if they are to be on any use to grow something, even a decent lawn, the poor new owners need to buy a foot of topsoil to cover it!