What is the biggest problem in your garden?

[billy tu'loos]

FROST... Havn't got enough room inside boat to put all of me pots and tubs.

[Peek]

The biggest problem in my back garden is clay, and shade for quite a bit of the day.

Oh, and slugs/snails, as our row of houses was built on the site of a garden nursery that had a rather large pond.

[royal]

mowing my 3 lawns, it's getting to much for me now.

[Fi]

Apart from the national collection of ground elder in out previous garden, the other real pain was Ladies Mantle, Alchemilla vulgaris. It seeds prodigiously and the root system is so tough it's exptremely difficult to dig up. The only consolation was that the first plant I put in came from one that was growing wild, so I did not pay for it. I am gobsmacked at the prices charged by garden centres for the thug. Plant some in your own gardens at your peril!
Our present garden is a testimony to the wisdom of dead heading Aquilegias before they run to seed. They're not quite as difficult to uproot as Ladies Mantle, but they seed just as freely. The only good thing I can say about both of them is that their leaves are pretty, especially in comparison to other weeds.

[shemlock]

Sticky stuff, I think it is called goose grass. I pull it up, and then I can't get rid of the stuff, because it sticks to me, my gloves and anything else that it brushes past. Terrible stuff.
Also Mare's tails, they are so deep rooted, that, they snap off if you've not got under them deep enough.
It's a good job I love gardening.

[Ann Icdote]

My problem is I've just had my garden chopped about and a new fence added and now I need to think about new plants and I'm all of a dither. Anyone got any good ideas for a poor chalky soil. Garden is long narrow and North facing.

[Fi]

Anne, if you go to the BBC's gardening pages and then follow the link to virtual gardens, it should give you a good idea of what would grow best in your garden. IF you are starting from a blank canvas, their design your own garden link may also be very useful. The other thing you can do is to look in your neighbours' gardens and make a note of any plant that you like that is growing well. I can't make any recommendations of plants, since the soil up here is acid and our garden is stuffed with plants that would not do well on chalk.