While the god of gardening, Monty Don, combats winter with as much green as possible. I, on the hand, like a randomly awakened bee, need flowers.  Outdoors and indoors. Hellebores for outdoors and Amaryllis for indoors. Is it winter that you are into? Not at all. I used to be. At least the snow, when it happened, had a way of reflecting light, even on the dullest of days. But the greyness of recent winters, especially with prolonged cloud cover we’ve had in the UK, has become harder to bear....

This time quick jobs for foliar and aerial root feed and longer jobs refreshing soil for the same pot or repotting your plants into fresh soil.

I wanted to see if and how much does the outcome (21.65ml/10cm pot) from the greenhouse study translate to a home setting. The original...