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Fence trellis topper
Hi I just wondered if anybody has added trellis fence topper to their fence and how hard it was?! I saw some post extensions on eBay but these seem to be for concrete posts but our posts are wooden and cut at an angle. (Photo attached) Our fence is 5 foot tall and we would like to add height for privacy but looking for the…
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Sutton Bedding Plants offer is damp squib
In April I thought I would take advantage of the discount code on MSE for 72 bedding plants for £15.99 plus £4.99 postage. I correctly assumed that these would be in high demand as I headed over to their website. Placing the order was troublesome to say the least having to submit and reload pages time after time, but…
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Replacement cord for lopper?
The cord on my extending lopper has perished - Lidl - so I need to get some more cord to replace it with but haven’t a scooby which one. B&Q only seemed to have some polypropylene stuff which looked like it would remove most of the skin from my hands (I dislike wearing garden gloves unless for brambles etc.) Any…
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Geranium expresso?
Has anyone experience of geranium expresso? I like the look of it and thought it would look good with the Pinks in my garden. https://www.gardenia.net/plant/geranium-maculatum-espresso#:~:text=Noted for its unusual chocolate leaves, Geranium maculatum,pale purplish-pink flowers, adorned with a creamy-white center. Saw it…
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Is this St John's Wort?
Hi everyone, can anyone tell me whether this is St John's Wort? Can't see any perforations in the leaves. Many thanks
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Weeds and Vegetable Plot
We have a small vegetable plot. Last year we grew potatoes in one half of it and brassicas/legumes/salad in the other half. This year, due to more urgent house renovations/other stuff, we haven't planted anything although we did get rid of the weeds and dug the whole plot over when we had time and inclement weather. The…
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lawnmower
i have a wheeled lawnmower at the moment but due to old age struggle to push it i am thinking of getting a hover mower are they easier to use & can anyone recommend one willing to pay up to £80 also need a garden vacuum aswell.thanks
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Greengages splitting
So it's a dwarf tree planted 18mts ago and this is it's first year with fruit.Not too many and evenly spaced they were doing well but, like the plums, they seem to be hard green skins and not ripening.The temperatue with this heat wave can be 35C in the back garden but they are in a spot to get enough sun but shade from…
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Can anyone identify please?
Found these growing in the hedge.
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Hose pipes?
I've got a green reinforced one at the moment but it squidges down on reel or looped over tap had have to get the whole lot out for the water to run.Are there any that stay round and don't collapse when looped around something? The garden is hot so this doesn't help. I wondered if the strong looking yellow ones at the…
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Cheapest method to clear ground at my allotment
I have an allotment. It's quite large and there's a lot of weeds. I want to kill off as much of the unwanted plant life as I can by covering it and leaving it for a year. I need to use tarp or black plastic or something. What's the cheapest way of doing this without having to worry about plants breaking through the…
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Birds away from garden
How can I get rid of birds to my garden. My garden has trees so birds comes I don’t want them to come because: * They make to much noise and it can be diffult to sleep. * There’s a bluebird who walks up and down the windowsill, lucky the window was closed, what if it comes in are they dangerous…and how can I get rid of…
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Letting the grass grow
We've left out garden to grow wild this year for the birds and bees and we've found all sorts of new wild flowers on the 'lawn'. What do we do come the autumn? Do we buy a scythe and lop it all down or leave the grass to die off over the winter? 😊
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Turf in an old chicken run - help please
We are buying a house that currently has a chicken run with a basic soil floor. Unfortunately we won't be able to keep the chickens so we plan to use the enclosure as a catio. We want to put turf down - is there anything that might stop us? Bacteria from chicken poo etc? I assume we will need to put down some new topsoil,…
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Ladybird larvae
Has anyone introduced so-called beneficial ladybird larvae into their garden. I tend to get loads of aphids attacking my Eucalyptus and recently noticed my prized Pieris is infested by what could be pieris lacebug. This is the sort of thing I'm considering…
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How to make roses bloom at ground level?
Most of my rose blooms are 8 feet from the ground and nothing on the bare stems below. Is there any way to force flowering further down the stem near ground level? Each year I prune them down to a few inches but they just grow long stems with flowers at the very top.
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Tiny standard olive trees?
I've seen some one foot high standard olive trees for 10pounds. Most have dried out in the pots and dropping their leaves but there are a couple that aare ok. It would be really silly to buy one wouldn't it? Just i need some more evergreen in the garden and I'm a little taken with them but something keeps screaming…
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Birds
The below bird and 11 half thumb sized chicks are hiding in the border or under some large steel beams - crows and magpies are very interested. Large concrete yard, 1 small bit of border and 1 small raised (too high for the chicks) border, level access on to a road and also a garden and orchard. Let nature take it's course…
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First time garden-owner - help needed!
Hi all, So we bought our first house in June (yay!) And the front garden looked lovely and the seller had obviously taken some time to make it look nice. I tried to keep on top of the weeding initially but it was all coming back through again so quickly that I kind of gave up! I've since learned that the seller got cheap…
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chilli peppers
i have grown some from seed for the first time, they have multiple leaves on them and i did pinch some of the leaves when they first started growing between the stalks. however, they grow back from where i pinch them. should i stop pinching them now and let them branch out
