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Blackberry leaves
I have a recently planted Merton thornless blackberry which has settled well except there is some mottling of the leaves. Having googled this I'm quite worried as some diseases would necessitate the destruction of the plant. I'll see if I can post a close up of a couple of stems that I've removed. Thanks
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Are they Courgettes?
Was given a couple of courgette plants (just gone on a spare patch of earth) - the fruit on the middle pic is about twice the size of a tennis ball and the lower one almost football size - they have never been the diameter of ones grown in previous years - are they really a type of courgette?
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Another Leylandii problem!!
Have had to get the tree people in to deal with a neighbour's line of Leylandii hedging whose branches were overshadowing the back of my garden. Have had the thing cut right back to the boundary but this has left me with a multitude of quite large cut branch surfaces which looks unappealing. Very starkly white against the…
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Electric start petrol strimmer
I need to use a petrol strimmer (my poor battery one can't cope) but I am unable to use a normal line start as I have shoulder problems. Is there such a thing as a petrol strimmer with an electric start? I need something that doesn't need a lot of physical effort to start it (can use one perfectly well once it's started…
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What’s happening to my bumblies?
I’m not sure if this is the right forum but I’m hoping some knowledgeable gardeners may be able to explain why the bumble bees in my garden are dying? I have three massive lavender plants which are abuzz with bumblebees but am getting very distressed at finding lethargic and dying bees clinging to the flowers. I’m hoping…
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Karcher T7 Plus
I’ve just bought a Karcher K4 power washer to replace an old one As I do have a large area to cover I was thinking about buying their T 7 Plus, T-Racer surface cleaner costing £82. Reviews on the product look good. I was wondering if any members have one and what’s their opinion. At the moment £82 is the best price I can…
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Overgrown conifer starting to knock wall over
The picture below explains the story really, the conifer outside my house has overgrown to the point of breaking the supporting wall. What options do I have here? If I trim it down, will the root still continue to grow? It'd be a shame to get rid of it, but if it will only get worse, it'll have to go!
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Wasps
Found out the hard way that wasps can get mad when disturbed. Tbh wasn't sure if they were wasps popping out of a hole in my garden border until I got too close and was stung! Anyone have a non toxic way of helping me move these critters along? 🐝
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How much or how to?
Hi everyone, I wanted to ask if anyone could shed some light on this. A while ago, I pulled some shrubs out from a long patch of grass next to the driveway. This keeps growing back with long grass and weeds. I've tried several times to kill this off, but whatever I try, nothing seems to work. Is there a cost effective way…
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Where did all the slugs go?
I gave up planting anything young in our garden because an army of slugs would immediately rasp it to the roots. Every morning the ground would be covered with their trails of doom. This year - nothing! We put a pond in three years ago so the frogs from the tadpoles we introduced have started to reproduce. Blackbirds now…
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Getting rid of weeds and moss from gravel and patio
Hi, could anyone recommend a cheap but effective way to get rid of weeds and moss from constantly regrowing on my patio and gravel, please? I'm looking for a solution that requires minimum effort and time. I recently clearer all the cracks out between the patio blocks and refilled it with sand, but the moss and weeds have…
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Getting my compost bin hotter?
I use a mixture of brown material and garden green material plus small amounts of kitchen waste. My compost temperature was in the low 20's degree C, I've added a mixture which I read about(basically a mixture of stale beer, cola and ammonia) the temp has increased to 30 degrees C, can i hope for a higher temperature for…
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Anyone know what these berries are please?
Hi all you wise and knowledgeable people. Whilst out collecting wild strawberries this morning I found these. The first is the size of a blackcurrant but growing singly not in bunches. Blackcurrant like leaves, but not much bigger than the fruit. Inside many small pips, like a blackcurrant. The second is growing on a very…
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Lawn weed identification
I was wondering if someone could identify this small purple flowered weed that's been popping up in my lawn over the past few years.
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Weeding and putting new lawn down
Evening all, I have roughly a 120sq meter garden, the plan is to stick gravel down and the a lawn for 80sqm. Whats the easiest, quickest way to de-weed and get a new lawn. Cant decide between turf or seed. Which one is better this time of year, what's the normal trade off in cost and which one is easier to do (not a…
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There's a maple tree coming out my roses
hello I have a maple tree coming out of one of my rose shrubs. As you can see in the pictures, it seems to be coming right from the roots of the roses, so it looks like impossible to dig out. Killing it with something will most likely result in killing the roses as well, I suppose? Any ideas?
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Seeds and weeds
I have collected ripe seed heads from my lovely poppies. No idea what sort they are as inherited from mil but they are tall and red. Do I just scatter them on the flower bed or start them off in seed trays? Rummaging around i also found some forgotten foxglove seed heads that I must have collected at least a couple of…
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Gardening and weeds
I've been caught off guard a bit and I'm not really sure where I stand with this. I haven't used MSE forum for some time and have forgotten how to navigate it, if I've posted in the wrong section, feel free to move it so it's in the right place. My neighbour came to me saying that brambles, which are growing under my hedge…
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Neighbour cut down tree on my property
Hey everyone, I'm looking for some advice on how to handle a recent situation. On Sunday I was out for an hour and when I came home I discovered that the neighbour had cut down a small tree and the tops of a laurel bush in my garden at fence hight. I'm extremely upset by this as as far I'm aware you can only cut back…
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What's capillary matting used for in a heated propagator
I bought a heated propagator and it came with a piece of capillary matting but what's it used for as I want to grow bamboo from seed but I don't know if I need the matting.
