Give it 6 months and I'll no doubt be scaring this pest off of my greengage again. [ATTACH]@infradig I'll pass on the pigeon pie!
@NigelJ Definitely not what I wanted to hear! I am considering putting them under my greengage/plum trees so that might help.
Does going out to scare off the pigeon pecking at my greengage blossom count as gardening?
@pitter-patter I think the first year I had lilies I was OK but the year after, the beetles came and were so prolific I gave the lilies away and...
@pitter-patter Do you have much trouble with lily beetles? I bought a tub of fritillaries years ago but those damned things showed up so I didn't...
@infradig When you put it like that it doesn't sound as bad!
@infradig I honestly couldn't say weight-wise. This was the photo I took after I'd harvested Swift although they look bigger than they actually...
@Loofah I believe I put three in last year.
Last year I grew some Madame Butterfly Ivory snapdragons and was going to grow some more again this year. As annuals, I assumed that they would...
I grew potatoes in bags for the first time last year and chose Swift and Orla but I wasn't blown away with the yields. I'm giving Valor a try this...
@Victoria We don't have any of the human kind either. Pets are hard enough, especially as they can't tell you when something's wrong. Thanks for...
@pete That is true. Sand would work out cheaper and any left over has plenty of alternative uses in the garden unlike cement based materials....
@pete I'm thinking of going with Rustoleum Universal paint which is allegedly multi-surface and a paint and primer in one.@Busy-Lizzie Thick...
I would love some stone planters but don't have the budget for them so have bought some plastic ones which I want to give a stone effect to. I've...
I don't get the thing with boxes. I buy Chester things that have had rave reviews but he's completely uninterested in them. Leave a box out though...
@amancalledgeorge I was dreading that the only chemo available would be the injection that had to be administered at the vets. He's been poked,...
This is Chester.[ATTACH]Originally, he was our neighbour's daughter's cat and was always trying to get in our house (and apparently everyone...
Yep, another GW refugee here. I'm in Leicester and have had a garden since 2007 but have only really been actively gardening since I decided on a...
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