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Overgrown allotment
I'm helping an elderly gentleman with an allotment as it's become too much for him to manage as he has been ill,a large part of his plot has become covered with long wild grass (18 inches) I wonder if anyone could tell me a way of removing this so we are back to just bare soil,he thought about setting it on fire,I don't…
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Weather related greenhouse question
I have just got a new greenhouse so have no experience with them. The forecast this week is pretty cold with a few nights going minus 1 or 2. I have various things in the greenhouse such as tomato plants, bedding plug plants, dahlias, begonias and a few seed trays. Do you think the plants will be ok with this cold or…
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I want to grow vegetables indoors on my windowsill
I've got a big windowsill, empty, that gets sun pretty much all day, and I thought it would be good to grow vegetables/fruit on it.
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Has she ruined my garden furniture and my honeysuckle?
I have been moaning for weeks that my garden is a mess, due to being ill and a rubbish winter it is sadly neglected, and i need to get stuck in, but have been too busy to do so. My sister decided to give me a "surprise" by helping out with some chores while I was at work. She doesn't have a garden herself and decided the…
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Cheese plant
I've inherited a large cheese plant, it's got to be about 5ft tall. It looks in fairly good condition, nice dark green leaves, no brown spots etc. Anyway, it's so big and has had no support as it's been growing so it's leaning sideways, and the roots don't look very pleasing to the eye! Is there anything I can do to make…
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Summer flowering bulbs
Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice on how to make my garden look good in the summer months. We have a mature garden that over the years has obviously been looked after but not in the 2 years before we moved here. It's lovely in the spring with lots of bulbs and shrubs (camilia, large magnolia, apple tree and pear…
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Tidy up lawn
I want to tidy up lawn with little expenditure. Here are the things I need to do (I dont necessarily want to win any awards, just make it look decent) 1. Reduce moss 2. Reduce weeds 3. More grass 4. Raise parts of lawn by 5cm I have rake the grass to scrape most of the moss off. Know prevention is best cure so want to…
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all change to cold weather. How to protect plants
The weather change looks drastic and we could well be back to freezing temperatures. I am not the only one with healthy young seedlings and transplants to protect. I have a root trainer containing 40 plants ie chillis and peppers (some to give away) and another with 20 good tomatoes. They are in a cold small greenhouse and…
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Aquaponics is the solution to growing in a drought
Aquaponics is an organic growing method that uses only 10% of the water needed for conventional growing. It's perfect when trying to grow in drought conditions. I really do hope people in the uk wake up to this method of growing food and start saving water whist continuing to enjoy gardening. Some good uk specific advice…
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T&M Postage Code? Anyone?
Anyone know if there is one at the moment?
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council property, pagola need some advice
Partner wants to build me a pagola so i have a nice shaded area to sit in with climbers all around it. problem (possible) it is 2.3 meters planning (council) said fine as long as it is not above 2.5 it is a few inches away from fence (neighbours from hell) now the only thing done so far is the 4 posts in ground and at the…
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good fragrance
hello, i am planning on planting up a large pot i've been given this weekend. its for outside my front door, i'd really like something that has a really strong but pleasant fragrance. have already got pots of lavender so not that. don't mind if its plants/flowers/shrub/bush etc. any ideas please? ps,its mostly in the shade!
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Beechgrove Garden now on iplayer
I know it's been mentioned on a couple of other threads, but Beechgrove is back. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01f8bx8/Beechgrove_Garden_2012_Episode_1/ For those of you down south, Aberdeen has been so sunny recently there may not be the usual delay in plant growth up here! :j
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Germination! How exciting... What do I do now?
My mum got me a "Grow Your Own Chillis" kit as a present. I wasn't expecting much, but it included some coir pots and compost and some seeds, and a few seem to have germinated. There's little white shoots that have emerged from some of the seeds (the instructions said to scatter the seeds on the surface of the compost, so…
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Fruit bushes in pots
Will these be able to go in the ground in the future or have to stay in pots?
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Bamboo Screen Questions
We're thinking of putting some kind of screening up around the garden for a bit of privacy. We currently have a 3 foot (ish) fence up, which from the pavement outside, is above head level. Because of that we can't put a higher fence up. I like the look of bamboo slat screening, but am wondering if you can just attach this…
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Flowering shade loving climber
I wonder if anyone can help me....... I want to grow a flowering climber along a north facing fence, that gets no direct sunlight but if they can get to the top of the fence there's lots of sun. I've done some research and I've found a few flowering climbers (honeysuckle and clematis) that say they'll tolerate shade, but I…
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Onion and garlic roulette
I planted my onion sets and garlic in pots last autumn. And very stupidly decided I'd remember which was which, so didn't label them. (Bet you can't guess what's coming next. :o ) Fast forward a few months and I have no idea which is which, and they're all looking pretty similar. How do I tell them apart without pulling…
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bought a new climbing rose
I got a new climbing rose and it is a bare root one (was in a cardboard box type package so didnt notice when i bought it). Looks healthy ie, roots well and sprouts appearing BUT the stems are covered in green wax?! Dad says to pick it off, Its Quite soft but impossible to pick off so i`m gueessing it is there for a…
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Raised bed questions.
I have a small raised bed area that i filled 2 years ago with compost from B+Q(expensive way to fill it at the time) first year i grew lettuce,kale,spring onion...cant remember what else. last year i topped up with a top layer only of fresh compost and grew cabbages,lettuce and brussel sprouts(kale didnt grow)...I have 2…