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I tried Wet and Forget last year or, to be honest, Lidl’s cheaper equivalent. It was no more than OK, giving perhaps a 30% improvement. It’s not...
I used Black Spot Remover and it lived up to its self publicity. The coverage was exactly as described and I followed the instructions - spray on...
Blackbirds should pay attention to Paul McCartney and make night time appearances just like the slugs.
A serendipitous outcome is that you can see the colours of the petunias so can replant in harmonious combinations. However I realise many people,...
The Red Velour petunias I have in pots have been nibbled but not chomped. However I have half a dozen more petunias waiting in the greenhouse...
@REMF33, I read instructions and always think ‘pfft … too far apart’. I’m almost always wrong. Anyway, the 18” diameter copper pot by the shed has...
As promised, @CatDouch, here are photos of my Red Velour five weeks on from the size yours currently are:I have hay baskets at the front and...
@Butterfly6, with a pot of petunias I cut them back to about three or four inches and in mid Autumn put them in the unheated greenhouse or cold...
In a fit of panic and after reading @pete comments I’ve ordered six 9 cm pots of Red Velour from Sarah Raven. At least I’ll have those if my...
Four plants were planted in this copper wash pot found buried in the garden and, in the first photo, what they looked like about five weeks later....
I am afraid after about seven years of propagating by cuttings from the original six I bought, the plants rather ran out of steam. This season I...
Day 2 Slug and Lettuce testThat’s more like it:Coarse pebbles - wolfed down Coffee grounds - licked the bowl clean Vaseline - devoured it...
For Day 2 I have moved the pots to the kitchen path where slugs are more abundant. I have also taken the rind off the cucumber (Rutland is a bit...
The results on morning 1 … and they were not what I was expecting.Gravel - almost entirely eaten Vaseline - mostly eaten Coffee grounds -...
But the Facebook-believers, and there are zillions of them, totally accept the efficacy of crushed egg shells. By contrast, late this evening I...
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