Maybe those in partial shade didn't get boiled dry like the others? I've been watering mine, which are starting to fruit, but it will be a couple...
I see Uncle Sam is now pondering sending cluster munitions to Ukraine.
I've been re-using some old timber today for shelving. It's hemlock, marked "John Lenanton", with BS numbers. Straight grained, but as hard as...
This is not hemlock water dropwort.There's a good picture here (it's not me in the photo):Hemlock / hem lock - Wild Flower Finder
Driving around Beds/Bucks, I notice what seems to be a far greater than usual amount of hemlock growing by the wayside.What're your observations?
I have an area under enviromesh. The area is about 6m x 3m. The enviromesh is held up by pegs driven into the ground. It's about 400mm high, and...
Given time - more than any of us have - it could turn into a very large and beautiful tree, maybe 100' high (over 30m) and 80' (about 25m) across,...
Good. People have been looking into this since last century. There are also massive amounts of china clay waste, from previous operations, which...
I've been looking online at IronMax Pro, Sluxx HP and Gusto IRON, but these seem hard to find in small quantities (e.g. 5kg or less; the only one...
Absolutely. A bit of lime is worthwhile too ("flocculation"), although it's horrendously expensive now (about £10/25kg).
My problem with cardboard is the material itself. If it's new, from virgin pulp, it's just wood fibre, but recycled cardboard, and at east 75% of...
You won't get anywhere at all with a pitchfork, and it'll probably break. You need a proper digging fork. You could try a Bulldog metal trench...
Time will tell. Nothing else. No statements from Russia or Ukraine are believeable per se.
Doubt you'd have much luck, don't think they will keep 'till next year. It might be interesting tosee what happens, if you want to experiment, but...
I have been to Wilko, and bought a pot of their "natural rooting powder", fondly imagining it would be hormone rooting powder like "Strike". It...
It's hot melt glue (cardboard to cardboard joins) and a starch based glue with additives (in corrugated cardboard manufacture), and I very much...
It's a bushy one. The flowers are prettiest before the deeper colours spread, but I think they're still lovely.
I'll add more water. No rain for quite some time here. Top inch or so of soil is dry. Missed a cloudburst the other day by about 3 miles (was...
Cheating, it's on the allotments. When very new, the flower has beautiful pink-tinged (especially outer) edges to the petals, which deepen in...
( 8< first attempt to post images ) Bother it.(less floppy end of rows)[IMG](more floppy end of rows) [IMG](Another row, unknown, could be...
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