". Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long....
If you can bend the stems horizontally, they will often produce shoots along the stem. Some varieties have supple stems, some don't. But either...
A nice celebratory meal for when hell freezes over.
I think it was Fearnley Wittingstall (sp?) in one of his Cottage Garden series who tried cooking slugs. They're just snails sans shells - right?...
Oh well. I'll put them in bigger pots for now
I lost most of my early planted cosmos. I have six plants more than ready to be planted out - but I don't think I'm ready. They're pale yellow,...
They need to see that they will,at least, get a decent home whether they but it or rent it. The off chance that they might just achieve it in...
It is extremely difficult to motivate younger staff. Work hard, climb up the ladder but there's bugger all at the top.
I have disagreed with a few things he's done but he seems decent enough - especially compared to Johnson
Pilosella aurantiaca Fox and cubsPerennialFamily: Asteraceae Some people love it, but it's an evil thug with pretty flowers in my garden. One of...
People voted for Johnson as London mayor and learnt the error of their ways. I suspect few of them wanted him as prime minister but people...
Circumstances alter cases. Who knows what skeletons the incoming government will find?
Some areas of the planet have more natural resources, fewer extremes of weather etc. These areas are most likely to attract people who could go...
I got a couple from Cyan Teak maybe ten years ago possibly more. One has been on the grass in the shade all that time. The other has been on the...
Must've been an amazing fertiliser!
@Banana Man I don't know you well enough to tell if you're joking. I hope you are.
I would love to grow lupins and other snail delicacies but it would be pointless. For some reason, I have seen very few slugs this year, but the...
Geums do that late in the season.
I suspect snipping them in half is probably less cruel than introducing a disease or parasite or however nematodes work
Growing plants they don't eat works pretty well for me. Just step away from the fight - unless you're trying to grow edibles - then good luck.
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