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A garden restoration project (nothing fancy)
A long building project has just been completed but left its mark on my garden. Having cleared much of it away yesterday after the last of the rubble was removed, I can finally see what I am dealing with: It looks like I need to pick out any remaining building debris and stones before using the lawn mower, but what next?…
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Hydrangea no flowers
Bought an Hydrangea plant last year with big white flowers. After winter it withered to nothing , just a few dried sticks sticking up from pot. Come springtime it sprouted fresh leaves from bottom and after watering well it is now back to a healthy looking bushy plant. No flowers though. I know that some Hydrangeas only…
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Lawn Advice/Help Please?
The back lawn has become infested with a spreading thick tough leaved grass-like growth which of course, normal lawn weedkiller won't touch because it's a grass. I also have several ant nests patches which are bare. Plus a well-known lawn treatment firm has told me I have leather jackets. The whole lawn (I use the term…
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Problem with mower.
Bosch Rotak 370 ER about 4 years old. I know when the grassbox is full as it leaves the cuttings on the lawn. However it has now started doing this when the grassbox is only one third full, presumably a loss of power somewhere. Any ideas on the cause - and hopefully remedy. .
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Olive tree dead?
We’ve had an olive tree in the garden (In the South East) for about 7 years, last year it didn’t really flower (we had a few tiny green olives that weren’t worth using) and we cut it right back this spring when doing some work. It hasn’t flowered, or even grown any leaves at all, all summer. Is it dead? Or should we give…
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Tall Daisy plant?
I am trying to find the name of a Daisy plant I remember from childhood. I always loved them and would love to grow some. They grew to about 2 ft ( maybe shorter but as a child everything seems bigger!) and they were on very firm tall stalks that had ridges up them. The heads were big white Daisies with yellow centres.…
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Raspberries this year?
Bought 2 Raspberry and 2 Blackberry plants from Aldi and Morrisons and put them in the garden early this year, they have grown ok but 1 better than the others. This is a picture of the biggest one, is that Raspberries forming or more leaves?
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What is this growing in my lawn? Is it poisonous to dogs?
As the title says, what is this? I have lots of different mushrooms growing in my lawn, probably 10 different sorts, is this another one? Is it poisonous to dogs, as we have two stupid dogs who would eat this given half a chance. Thanks
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Spray and leave weed killer/preventer
We’ve got a block paved driveway and trees either side that drops seeds etc onto it (plus birds in the trees drooping things from their beaks) and results in weed and grass growth between the blocks and down the side of our fence. Is there anything recommended I can just spray on and leave regularly that will prevent…
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Thompson and Morgan Perennial Plug Deal
Hi My dad is asking me to populate his garden with some more perennials and I've just got this deal from T&M for 72 plugs.…
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where do you get online Stihl parts for your power tools
FR Jones was great but now not trading. Where do you go now? Any trustworthy online alternatives
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Can You Sell Wood From a Fallen Tree in your own Garden?
Hi.My mother has a very large and very old mulberry tree in her garden. Last week, about half of it fell clean off. Mercifully no-one was under it (it happened at night) and no damage was done. But it's been estimated there's at least a couple of tons of wood in the broken section. Does anyone know if we are allowed to…
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Dead laurel
There’s an old hedge at the front mainly made up of laurel, spotted laurel and a somewhat straggly snowberry, all very much intertwined. The hedge was probably planted in the mid 1960s, so very well established. The hot spell has left some of the laurel looking as though is been burned. I’ve cut out some of the dead…
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Rhubarb seedlings
Well i planted about 25 to 30 seeds (2 or 3 per hole) and some have now started to show through and sprout tiny leaves after about a week. How long before i can put them in the garden?
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Best wood for building a raised bed
Good afternoon lovely people on the Internet, Having moved into a property with a beautifully mature largish garden in September- my family and I are now thinking about the various areas in the plot.Currently there are 2 slightly raised beds which have lots of herbs which we wish to keep. However the wood is rotted and…
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New pond surface has a film
OK, reclaimed pond, all old stuff removed, new liner filled with rainwater, now around 7 weeks old. New plants added over time and all's well, apart from a cloudy bloom of frothy green stuff that appeared after about a fortnight and which I've been able to keep down using a bottle brush thingy to twist in the water and…
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Quick and Easy Veg Storage or Recipies
I've been given a couple of extreamly large courgettes - Just peeled one, cut in half and de seeded, in a dish in the microwave for 2mins. Courgettes cook quicker than marrow Filled with mince, tomatoes, garlic, some spices, that I'd made a spag bol from and put some small slices of local cheese left over from a baked…
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Growing tomatoes
100 St. Pierre tomato seeds less than £3! In my basket!
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Replacing top strips on fence panels
We moved into a lovely property last September, the garden is considerably bigger than our last and obviously has many more fence panels. Some of the top parts of the panels have rotted (the piece that normally forms an apex) as well as the chunkier piece directly under that (the one that frames the featherbed pard of the…
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Patchy lawn repair
Hi greenfingers, We recently moved to our new house and the lawn looks a bit tired/patchy with a few dents/holes (probably because the previous owner had a dog!). I was looking to encourage growth with something like https://www.homebase.co.uk/gro-sure-multi-purpose-lawn-seed-50m2/12823472.html plus some top soil for…
