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Save money mowing your lawn
If you have a safe closed off lawn, you could get a rabbit to keep your lawn short, saving electricity/petrol. Did you know that rabbits only poop where they eat, so you can keep them indoors as long as their food is situated, so their bottoms are in a tray or something while they eat, your floor will remain unharmed. You…
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Cutting back Hedges
Hi all, We’ve some hedges running along the length of our back garden. I’d like to trim them back so we can regain more garden space (only by say, half a foot to a foot). When is the best time / month / season to do this so I don’t kill the hedges? Not sure on what the hedges actually are… so that’s helpful (not)! Thanks.
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Autumn fruiting raspberries
Hi, does anyone know how soon after fruiting I can move autumn raspberries please? They're still going strong at the moment, I'm getting nearly a punnet full every 2 or 3 days. I'm guessing I'd need to chop them down by at least half to be able to transplant them? I have a new greenhouse to build but the raspberries need…
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Veggies for rocky soil?
Hi all, bit of a newbie to this. We have a bed in our back garden which is pretty full of stones. I've gotten a lot out on one side (mostly quartz so used them to border the path :-) ) Herbs planted there. Going to do the same to the other side but realistically wondering what will grow well in rocky soil that we can eat.…
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Red roses too
Would like a red bush rose that grows to a nice shape and the blooms don't go manky in rain. Must have scent and be trouble free. Is there such a thing?
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Spare parts for garden shredder?
I've got a Gardenline PGS2800 garden shredder which is in perfect working order. One of the plastic wheels has just sheared off the axle, and it has no way of being attached again. As said, it's a fine working tool, and there's no need to ditch it but it is difficult to manoeuvre around without the wheel. Where do people…
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Large Conifers
I am hoping someone can advise regarding a decision I am struggling to make over my two tall conifers at the bottom of my garden which I inherited with the house a few years ago. Do I lob them to gutter level or shed level or take them down to stump? I am not sure of the condition of the fence behind them or who owns it,…
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mangomel
mangomel is a cross between a mango and a melon can i grow a mangomel plant from one of its pips?
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Beginner's allotment basics
This week I got offered a quarter allotment plot. The plot is in bad condition, overgrown, very uneven and full of hundreds of bits of tiny plastic and other rubbish. I am though really delighted. Progress will be slow as I have a disability and my partner is well into retirement, but the allotment association are happy…
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Lawn Recovery
Am on east coast of Scotland and last mowed lawn (hovered really) in middle of June. Over the last ten days had around 55mm of rainfall but grass does not seem to have restarted growth yet. Just wondering about other areas if they have seen any regrowth from lawns that have not been irrigated.
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cheap seeds
yes, I know I am not supposed to post twice- but you might miss this bargain. earlier today was in Tesco Mablethorpe & all their Unwins seeds are reduced- now 20-30 pence per packet I assume this price will be in force across all their stores? Seeds are BBE 2024 or 2025 not available online- just looked
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Rhubarb in late August - ok to eat ??
Apologies if this has been asked before, my rhubarb has gone mad and is enormous. It’s at the edge of a flower bed in the garden and covers and shades everything else if I take my eye off it. We’ve had a massive harvest earlier in the year and I know I’m meant to leave it now to get its energy back for winter but I’ve had…
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Rechargable Strimmer using Cable Ties
Has anyone tried one of these strimmers which uses cable ties as the blades, sounds like a good idea but don't know how effective they are?
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Potted Toms Advice?
I grew a lot of veg from seed this year just as a experiment having never done this before, i made a lot of rookie mistakes but I'm learning as i go, I have several tomato plants in large pots which now have green toms on them and look very good to be honest. I have suffered a lot of bug damage to other types of vegetables…
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using up old compost
Now a friend of mine who does quite well with his pots on the patio claims all the soil should be replaced every year. Something I've never done. And things are ok (mostly). But I've decided to minimalise the pots and get more things into the ground. As mentioned on another thread the soil is currently the consistency of…
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Plants that have survived drought with little watering?
It's been dry and very hot here since May and I have full sun all day. I thought I'd got drought resistant plants but obviously the ones expected are still struggling, I'm exhausted watering with little effect and I'm depressed seeing my hard work dying - so was hoping for a list of any plants that people have found coped…
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Green Beans and Black Fy
I seem to be having a nightmare this year. With the temperatures so up and down in the spring affecting my tomatoes which I couldn't do much about, but now the dreaded Black Fly is having a go at my beans with a .vengeance Last time this happened I used Bub Clear, as from reading the bottle it seemed to be the right stuff,…
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Thornless Roses
Hi, I am looking for some advice from anyone who knows roses. I am looking to grow one or two roses up against two normal size fence panels. I really like roses, but have been put off growing them due to them having thorns. I have been told that you can now get thornless, (or very few thorns). I don't need one that grows…
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Keeping your garden green during a heatwave whilst saving water and cash
With much of the country experiencing a prolonged spell of dry, warm weather, we were wondering what your MoneySaving (and water-saving) tips for looking after your garden might be. This NASA image shows that the effect of the drought is visible from space: https://twitter.com/liamdutton/status/1557428329669615617 One…
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Beetroot problem
Not sure what is going on with the beet root. We went away just before the heat wave and on return found them to be like this. It's been a few weeks and looks like it is getting worse. I feel it's got nothing to do with the heat wave. Grown in raised garden bed Soil and compost mixed Watered well
