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General gripes about growing/ maintaining plants- A level student work

productdesignplantsproductdesignplants Posts: 2
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Id love to know about anything that annoys you about growing and maintaining plants.
Any feedback is welcome, thanks in advance 
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  • productdesignplantsproductdesignplants Posts: 2
    pansyface said:
    You are going to have to be a bit more specific, I’m afraid.

    I could name any number of things:

    1.They die on me.

    Because I ignored them? Disease? Wrong soil? Heatwave? Snow?

    2. They outgrow the space I gave them.

    For the same reasons.

    3. They aren’t the colour I expected.

    Silly me, should have read the label.

    You see, there are thousands of possibilities.

    We need to know a bit more.
    Hi, thank you these are brilliant I would just like to know anything that irritates you that might be solved with a product be as vague or as specific as you like. Genuinely anything will be helpful
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The weather ... specifically the right weather occuring at the wrong time of year 

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





  • micearguersmicearguers Posts: 646
    I love everything about it.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Something I would be glad of would be a pump that can be used with a water butt.  I have tried attaching a hose to the outlet, but the pressure is not high enough, so I can only use watering cans.  There are pumps available, but they have to be immersed in the butt.    A pump that can be connected to the outlet of the butt, and the hose connected to the pump, would make watering a lot quicker and easier.
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    This is a gardeners' forum and gardeners generally enjoy growing and maintaining plants. If there are problems there are plenty of 'products' out there already, but oddly enough, many of us prefer not to use them because they are not environmentally friendly. What sort of thing are you thinking of? - I don't suppose "vague" will get you through A Level.
    For what it's worth, my current gripe is that after 2 weeks of ice and snow the rats have  dug up and eaten all the tulip bulbs in my troughs outside. There is no food, they are hungry and there is no solution that both works and is morally acceptable, so I  must just accept it as part of living with nature. Next year I will cover the troughs with wire mesh, which might help, (though probably not, if they are hungry enough!), but as it has never happened before I was caught out this time. At least it is the right weather at the right time of year :)
  • GrannybeeGrannybee Posts: 332
    I love growing any plants but get annoyed when it doesn't rain here and according to the weather forecast, it should do. And I want it to rain at night, please. 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    One of my frustrations is the time it takes to fill a watering can from a water butt. They all seem to have the same small-bore taps on them.
    If there was a tap kit with a 1" (for example) bore my watering can would fill about 75% faster and I could get the watering done 75% faster.
    I know the lid can be removed and I could dunk the can, but some of mine have the downpipe going through the lid, so taking the top off is a right faff.

    I agree with @Grannybee too, but maybe altering the weather is a bit ambitious :) perhaps the tap would be easier!

    Good luck!


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  • micearguersmicearguers Posts: 646
    @Buttercupdays your response is spot on. Garden centres are already full of gimmicky plastic tat that I rather wish had never been made in the first place. Not unlike many other shops, but many gardeners try to live with a sustainable ethos and would rather fix things with a bit of string and a piece of bamboo if possible. A rather charming thing I bought in a charity shop once is this paper potter:

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    I haven't actually used it much yet (I reuse all sorts of other containers), but the idea is just lovely. So @pr@productdesignplants actually what annoys me, after all, is all the plastic tat. Is there any chance you could look for a more sustainable version of an existing product?

  • Hayley24Hayley24 Posts: 4
    My gripe is the difficulty in buying plants that don't come in plastic pots and in peat compost! I know I could DIY from seed...but just wished it was "normal" that gardening had a lighter footprint on the environment.
  • RobmarstonRobmarston Posts: 338
    SLUGS and SNAILS!!
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