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Dont tell me,....... you bought a windmill.

I hope you can get somewhere with it all @hailbopp and get a decent resolution. It doesn't seem to be easy to get that with anything nowadays though. I'm reminded of the brilliant line in the Post Office drama though - 'we're just skint little people'... Seems to be the 'normal' state nowadays.

My arms are still not long enough for this one, its got the pullies to give you the advantage, so it cuts really easily but, it just involves so much cord length to close the cutter. Mine hasn't got a wooden handle but it did come with a silly plastic thing to wind the cord round.

Welcome to GC orbitingstar.

As winters are mild and not usually wet here and my dahlais have mysteriously increased in number (keep jumping in my trolley) I leave them out in the ground in their own bed. Once they die down we cut off the top growth and then mulch them with grass cuttings and straw and poo from the chicken...

Always used to visit here when I worked in London. Worth knowing that the John Tradescants, father and son, are both buried in an elaborate stone sarcophagus in the back 'garden'. Lovely, peaceful place, worth visiting if only to honour the memory of those two great explorers, collectors and...

Thanks @Jiffy for your help, the thing was, I don't recall watching it in the first place! I also didn't know this 'site/ feedback/bugs forum' existed and put this in the wrong place! thank you to whoever moved it.

i had this problem with peppers, needed wind and bees or flies or something. difficult in a polytunnel?ive heard of people going around and touching the stems with an electric toothbrush buzzing to mimic bees, maybe that works

We probably moved it in July. It was doing OK until about a month ago. It has been watered regularly, but perhaps not enough.Thanks...

Not many places in the UK where you could leave a standard out all winter I would have thought.

Happy 60th birthday Loli Jenny

I can stop scratching that itch ! I have a compost heap but don't think it is very warm as it is just an open heap. I have never seen anything wiggly leaving it when I have started using it. I always had slow worms in the compost heap in my previous garden but they never bothered me.

I'm not sure you'll have much room for lots of other plants if the honeysuckle improves. That fence will certainly be a bit of a rain shadow, but improving the soil for it will make it thrive better. They get mildew-y if the conditions are too hot and dry too.You'd have to pick veg that will...

'they shave their legs' Nice one @cactus_girl - could you tell my older daughter that then? I thought my legs were hairy....I disturbed a large spider recently when sorting my bigger birdcage. I apologised to him. I used to rescue spiders at work to prevent people overreacting and killing...

Thanks @Tidemark .

As @CarolineL says the SBK brushwood killer is very effective and economical against brambles and similar. Though as she says its said to be safe on established grass, on new grass we would not spray it over the whole lawn.What you can do now is to carefully use a small brush and manually...