Hi Bayleaf, thanks for that. My soil is most unlike any soil I've ever seen. It's not clayey like my grandparents' and it's not sandy like our...
Cheap method: a bowl full of boiling water. A couple of years ago I was washing up at my mum's and noticed a black carpet moving across the patio...
Sounds like mine, I'm trying to squish as much edible matter as possible into a dinky "garden" - I have a small area of grass that I want to keep...
My mum hacked hers down from ridiculously high to reachable and it survived the ordeal. Hope this is encouraging! [img]
LOL!Thanks for your ideas. I'm thinking I'll probably sink some cheap lager cans into the borders and copper tape around my containers. My poor...
Yes, my mum keeps hens and did offer to lend me one, but the garden is too small really to be fair to the poor chicken unfortunately, otherwise...
I would be interested to know people's favourite way of keeping slugs/snails away. My new garden is full of the dratted things and I daren't plant...
Oh dear. Some of the baby seedlings that were furry seem to have died, others are looking quite healthy now so I don't know what happened.I've...
Aha! Fantastic, thanks. I had a go at pulling it out last night and all I succeeded in doing was pulling one wee branch off and somehow skewering...
If they're anything like our aloe you'll be over-run with the darn things, they seem to have taken over the place! Without any help from us, it...
I have a buddleia, about a foot high I guess, that is growing out of a crevice in a low wall. I want to grow runner beans along that wall, and...
Hi Rono,How are your tomatoes coming along? I planted some cherry tumbling toms last week, I wondered how long yours took to come up?I also...
I would like some advice on growing roses from cuttings please. Is it possible, and how should I go about it, to take a cutting of my Grandma's...
Hullo! As my new garden is tiny, with oh-so-attractive poured concrete bordering two sides in a wide path, I'm thinking container gardening. I...
Good ol' Google, eh?! What an excellent site, just what I was looking for. We have just bought our first home and I will appreciate all the advice...
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