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Garden plant advice
I am looking at adding some nice low maintenance plants and flowers to our garden. Our garden is south facing, can anyone suggest any good plants or flowers that i can add?
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Winter crops - kale etc.
I have a small area in my garden I use for planting vegetables in summer but recently visited a friend who purchased their house in March and they got it with garden full of kale. Decided to try it myself and planted it all with kale in early September and now have a lovely green, knee high plants which should provide me…
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Spotty cooking apples.
My cooking apples have black spots on them and some of them cause splits in the skin. Not all the apples are affected and the dessert apple trees are not affected. I have given the tree lime in the last two years and plan on giving it a "winter wash". I wondered if it was bitter pit. The affected apples do not store. Any…
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Can i cut my beech hedge back now, or should I wait for the leaves to actually turn brown?
Hi.This is about what was a sizeable front hedge that I'm taking back to a manageable level. Back in Spring I cut its height down dramatically to around 2', and this required cutting through some sizeable stems, often a good 2-4" diameter. I also trimmed back the house side to a manageable degree, but left the roadside…
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Recommend a leaf mulcher
Hi I'm after an easy to use leaf mucher for the garden with a sturdy bag that doesn't split. Or something where the bags are cheap and easy to change. I've currently got a Hyundai but I've been through 2 bags where the Zip seam has split. Up to about £50.
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Leaf Vacuum/Blower
I have a leaf vacuum (see below). Every time or every other time I use it the bag splits where the zip is sewn in and I need to buy a new bag. Surely this isn't normal. Hyundai aren't interested. Are there better makes, or can you get disposable bags (like you do with hoovers) that you can dispose of after each clear up.…
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Pink Flamingo
Bought a Pink Flamingo standard tree from local supermarket about a month ago. The branches were only about 12 inches long but have since gone mad to over double that. Problem is, it looks a bit sparse in the middle. Should I prune it back to where the shoots branch out which would take it back to nearly the 12 inch length…
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Is this a weed?
Hi All, I assume this is a weed. If so, what's the best way to treat it as it's in an awkward location? Thanks in advance.
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Have you seen any good deals on compost or soil ?
I was told that this is a good time of year to buy soil, compost and wood chips, etc. Has anyone seen any significant discounts either online or instore on these things. I am more interested in top soil ericaceous compost I dont drive so its very difficult for me to go to stores to collect these 25/50L bags but im…
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Ornamental cherry advice
I had a mature cherry given a well needed trim a year ago with regards to the new shoots this year if I want to keep the size down how much of the new shoots should I trim in spring? All of the new growth or leave a couple of buds or inches on each new shoot?
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Pruning time or is it?
We have been away and I am now considering if pruning or at least tidy up is worth doing now as they are all a bit overgrown (and overlapping the lawn!): - 2 types of hebe - 1 hot lips - Mexican Orange I thought we could prune only if they had stopped flowering but they are still flowering! Is it too risky to prune now?…
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This a false widow?
Keep seeing this type of spider in my flat and about, is it a false widow
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Retaining wall for patio
Hello, am building some two retaining walls for a patio next to the house (see very rough sketch attached!). The garden slopes away from the back of the house, so a patio needs retaining walls to support it (the retaining walls are green in the sketch). The aim is for 4 courses of brick on top of a concrete footing. One…
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Blank Canvass Garden - Design Inspiration Needed
Hello everyone, I am an avid reader of this thread and am in need of the collective advice. I moved house last year - downsized to a lovely 1930's semi. I had a large leafy garden in my old home but it is fair to say this new garden is rather bereft of any charisma. I attach a pic of the garden - now this is from the…
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What size of water butt do I buy?
Am going to replace two apex sheds, with two pent sheds, one is 10 x 8 and the other is 16 x 8. Am planning on putting guttering on them do I can collect water in a butt. Having never had one before I have no idea what size I need? Given the size of the sheds, are 100 litre and 210 litre water butts too small in proportion…
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What flowering tree is this?
No not a quiz but this tree was flowering on a soil/sand plot right near the sea.It caught my eye because of the colour so late in the season and that seemed useful as a small tree. Bracts and 'fruit' but what of? Photo coming soon :# When the photos will upload to the site
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Lifting up synthetic grass?
Hello all One of the swing poles has become loose in the postcrete. Problem is that theres synthetic grass around it. You can see that there's a square patch around the leg bottom. Ive spoken to a couple of handymen who said they can give it a go but have no idea how to lift up and refit the synthetic grass. I spoke to the…
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Are These
Hi, Could someone advise on what is a weed in this flowerbed, please? It's very overrun in a property that I have recently purchased. Thanks in advance.
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What tree is this pt 2
Small. bracts appear late September looking colourful at a time when there is little colour.Really shows up. So from a photo on my tablet Whoohooo!
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Recommendations for pre-made wormery
Hi, I am interested in starting up a wormery to use eg vegetable peelings to create nutrition for growing various vegetables. I have watched quite a few YouTube videos about various ways you can make your own and I think I have a reasonable grasp of the way you use them. However, I am not at all handy when it comes to…
