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Gardening Myth Busting

FireFire Posts: 19,096
in Tools and techniques
Inspired by @Fairygirl (and snail eggs), I'd like to hear about common gardening myths you bump into all the time. It might be fun to give them a good airing, put them on the line, as spring is here....
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  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    Nine to get you started:

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/28/nine-gardening-myths-debunked 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    how about : 
    Hostas won't grow in full sun.
    Agapanthus like to be pot bound.
    Devon.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    you can't move paeonies
    Anything labelled organic is safe


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Rabbits won't eat mint
    Bank voles would never be in a garden in sufficient numbers to be a problem

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    A rose shoot with more than five leaflets is a sucker.

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Oriental Poppy seeds must be sown direct, because the seedlings don't tolerate being moved.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    After hard winter you will get bumper fruit crops.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    BobTheGardener said:
    After hard winter you will get bumper fruit crops.
    and the related myth, a good fruit crop predicts a hard winter


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Lots of hedgerow fruits means a harsh winter is coming.
    Encourage birds, frogs, etc  into your garden and they will eat the pests.

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Clematis like their heads in the sun and feet in the shade.   With a mere 3,700 clems registered on this site - http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-about.cfm - that may true of some but not the majority.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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