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Green Fly and Black Fly on Tomatoes & other edibles
Does anyone have a safe way to keep green fly and black fly off edible plants? The sprays they sell that are suitable for edible crops don't seem to work at all. I don't really like using chemicals either. I have tried spraying diluted washing up liquid but it damaged the plant :/
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Foxes?
We live in a city and do have quite a number of foxes roaming about the residential areas. However, with a raised vegetable bed, would foxes only target one plant? Our tomato plants always seem to be the ones that get it.... nothing else gets damaged other than seedlings. Why would they just dig up the one type of plant…
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Slugs and my Strawberry plants
I have loads of strawberries on my plants but I also seem to have loads of slugs. I am growing them in a raised bed with bark on top of the soil. Any suggestions as to how I can protect the fruit from the slugs would be gratefully receive as new at growing fruit. Thank you
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Placing pots on the ground
Hello,I have a rather silly question.. I have a couple of potted plants that I want to put in a soil border (among other plants which are in the ground). The issue -- maybe not an issue -- is that if I put the pot right in the ground, then a whole bunch of red ants and white eggs appear at the bottom of the pot. So first…
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Neighbours - omg
Please move this if I’m not in the correct place. I have fab neighbours until a couple moved in next door. We live in a terraced house, a small row of houses with open gardens. He told me (he’s quite territorial) he was planting conifers between me and them. I’m quite frightened of him so I only said ok. He has planted…
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Cherry Laurel Yellowing - Dying?
I hope someone can give me some advice. We recently - end Feb- had established cherry laurels planted - they are over 1.8m. An irrigation system went in. All was good but we had a problem with over watering - flagged by the neighbour at the back as we flooded their garden. So we reset the timer and reduced the flow which…
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Plant Identification Please
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Plant ID please
Hello My wife bought this lovely plant but we dont know what it is and would be good to know so that we can decide where to plant it. I tried one of the plant ID apps but have conflicting information and no conclusion. Thanks
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Identify Plant
Hello I have another plant that I would like identifying please if you would.
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Warning - contains pics of bugs! Can anybody identify this mite/bug please?
Hi I hope someone can help us, we appear to have been invaded by these little pests in recent weeks! They only seem to occupy front facing rooms (north/east facing - so sun in mornings) and collect in window sills and walls surrounding the window. Our ensuite shower room is particularly affected. They are tiny, smaller…
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Gnats and Midges
Hello, I hope that someone can assist with a super idea to solve my problem. We have our garden set out and, at the far end, we have a gazebo with furniture under which is lovely to sit out on a warm day because of the shade. There is tall hedging around the hard standing area and the area is mostly just a delight. We have…
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Identify Plant
Can anyone tell me what this plant is called please
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Lemon Cucumber
I've been given 4 lemon cucumber plants, which I've had in the conservatory, for a couple of weeks, and are coming on nicely. Trouble is, I don't know the best way to grow them. I've searched online, and most of the videos I've come across, seem to be made in USA, even though in my search, I put UK. Can I grow these in a…
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Building a small mound for my stackable waterfall
Any tips? I have a small pond with 4 stackable artificial stone waterfalls. I previously stacked these with bricks but they got knocked down and I've woke up to an empty pond a couple times. I'm been advised to build a mound but want a few tips. I can just use soil but want to make sure it doesn't erode away when it rains.…
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Tall conifer trees
Hi. I have tall concise trees. Someone says he could cut 3 metered off top and prune for 700. He said after cutting his gut they won’t grow taller? Does this mean they won’t grow taller if I left them as is and I didn’t do work? I’m thinking of getting a ladder and pruning it myself leaving the top(on the presumption it…
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White Blister on Brassicas
First time this has happened to me but new garden new problems.As nothing has grown here before for nearly a centuary and it was grass or tarmac I'm guessing it's not in the soil but the warm damp winter or the insects I've been so keen to attract.Before ripping the plants out I cut off the offending parts and the rest…
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Plant identification please
Hello, Can anyone name the pink plant in the photos? I have included the toe of my boot to show scale. I do have size 9 feet though so that it not a small delicate ladies foot in the picture, but my big clodhopping ladies foot 😁 Many thanks
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Disgusted with Gardening Express
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Honeysuckle problems
I have a well established Honeysuckle that grows at the back of my garden up the wall of a garage but every year after an initial growth spurt during April/May the leaves start to yellow and die off and I end up with a bare plant for most of the summer. In front of it sits a big rhododendron which keeps the base and roots…
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Blackbirds
Hi all, Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been watching a lovely blackbird couple tending to their fledglings tucked away in my large ivy bush. I’ve peeked a couple of times but really only watched from the side lines. Mum and dad come often, feeding and watching the chicks. The chicks are probably a week or so old, I…
