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What to fill a raised veg bed with?
Hi all,I have just bought a small raised veg bed (1m x 1m). I dont have any topsoil, but I have half a bag of compost and a ready supply of well rotted manure. Can I just fill the raised bed with the manure and the tiny bit of compost that I have? Or will that kill any veg that I plant? Thanks
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How to kill this ash tree
hello Two ash tree saplings have grown this spring in a rain gully. Any idea on the best way to get rid of them? I am afraid cutting them will not be enough. Will the roots still grow if I just cut them? They are right next to the house!
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Garden sleepers against fence
Hi, we have recently just completed our first garden lockdown diy. We have put sleepers up against our fence & filled it with plants. Unfortunately 🙈 we never put a barrier between the fence & the soil. Can anyone suggest anything that can be done without completely digging the whole plant bed out?
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White scabious
hi there, Can someone help me with my white scabious... i have a lovely scabious it's a tall rather than clumping variety but it instead of sending stem's upward it's got 2 stem's running along the ground... under the foliage of all my other plants. I've tried staking it but the stems it's grown are quite thick and it it's…
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Mare's Tail infestation! How best to get rid cheaply?
Hi We have a patch of land which is currently infested by Mare's Tail and it's very difficult to get rid of! The roots are very deep and have ended up growing through cracks in my drive way as well. I was wondering if you have any tips on how to get rid of it and maybe can recommend a decent weedkiller? Thanks in advance :)
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Weed Killer for Ivy
Can any one recommend a good weed killer for ivy please.
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What clumping bamboo for pots
I want to try and screen a chain link fence so my kids cannot annoy the neighbours dogs so I'm wondering what clumping bamboo I can buy that will grow in a pot but doesn't have thorns.
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What is this seedling?
I recently tidied up a border and removed all sorts of stuff including an ash sapling. There are many in the area. Now I saw that the border has a lot of these (see picturr). They are tiny so the pic is magnified. Any idea what it is? Hopefully not ash..
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Question for anyone who anyone who has to manage acreage?
This is a question for Davesnave or anyone else with experience of managing a few acres. We have a field and on our boundary we are having lots of weeds etc encroaching on our field. Its ivy, nettles, bramble mainly and the field next door has lots of it on their boundary too which is left to run rampant. This area of…
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Magnolia seed pods?
Last year I bought my first. longed for. Magnolia Stellata and this spring got lots of lovely blooms. Now I see on the ends of the branches where it has flowered there are slim dark green pinappley things and I don't know if I should remove them. I'm guessing they are seed pods This is still small, about 2½ft high and wide…
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Raspberries in tubs...what compost/soil?
Sorry, I know it's been asked before but I cannot find the answer by searching in the awful new format... Have just bought 4 good size raspberry canes (2 each ot Tulamore & Autumn Bliss) and 4 large tubs, but I'm not sure what to plant them into? Top soil? Compost? John Innes no.3? Mix of all / any?
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Giant sunflowers in smaller pots - what will happen to them?
I've grown a load of sunflowers and they are now about 2 ft tall. I put some out in the garden and they were demolished overnight by slugs and snails even though I put them in upside down cut off plastic bottles to protect them. :-( I don't have much space for the rest but I have put them into the largest pots I can…
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Can you identify this please.
Hello lovely people, any ideas on this? I am no gardener but really would love to learn. Moved in 3 years ago and last year there was only one, now there are three in a row and the slugs seem to love though.
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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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