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Gardening unit a level study design
I'm designing an interior gardening unit for A level product design, please could you help me by answering a few questions. (the product i will deisgn will be a small unit style gardening product, to provide an area for people in flats or with limited space and no private exterior space to garden. Think unique potting…
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Daft Question.......Digging Holes
I KNOW this is going to sound like a really daft question BUT I am going to ask it anyway. I have a self seeded silver birch tree which has grown very nicely for a few years in a pot which is about 32" deep. I am wanting to transplant it into my garden so it can shield a nasty new build at the bottom of my garden. I think…
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Chilli plant colours
We’ve got 4 chilli plants that have given great numbers for the last 2 or 3 months, we thought we’d planted green chillis, but recently a lot are a yellow/lime green colour, and the odd one or 2 on a green producing plant are bright red Is there any reason for this? Not an issue, just wondering
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White mould on soil
I’ve got a small aloe Vera plant in the bedroom in a pot, and there’s what looks like white mould on the soil, the plant itself is ok but the soils covered in what looks like white furry mould (similar to what you’d get on really old bread) Any ideas please?
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Makita petrol pole hedge trimmer?
My battery powered pole trimmer is getting tedious to use and I am helping elderly friends with more hedge than the battery one can manage, as well as my own hedges. I quite fancy a petrol pole trimmer, especially the 4 stroke Makita series. However, the manual says branch diameter of 7mm, various adverts mention 21.5mm. I…
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Labelling Cuttings
My husband has loads of rooted cuttings - roses, willow trees, and many others. Despite having a large garden we have no room for them and I had the idea that he may sell them next year at summer fetes, school fairs etc. Many of the roses are by David Austin. Does anyone know if it is legal for us to label them for sale…
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Russian snowdrops
Can anybody tell me something about these bulbs please? Are the flowers the same height as ordinary snowdrops? Do they bloom at the same time? Do they naturalise in the same way? Is there any reason why'd they can't be planted in with ordinary snowdrops
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apple tree and orange tree
need advice asap. i bought a apple and orange tree of Yougarden they arrived Wednesday. after being very good at answering emails when i was going to buy them they have suspiciously dried up now we have? and we have virtually no after care advice & are newbies. both are small and grown in pots. the apple one is a Discovery…
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damsons
whilst out blackberry picking found a damson tree.how do you know when to pick them. tried one it was extremely sour. any help thank you
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Raised beds/borders on the cheap?
We want to put a raised border in along the fence line. It's 4.8m long, then looking for roughly 45cm x 45cm but that's flexible. Simply putting the plants in the ground doesn't seem feasible as the soil is naff and full of rubble. I think sticking a few pots on the lawn against the fence would look odd. We're not far off…
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Are these apples ready?
Hi all I have an apple tree in my garden, planted by the previous owner, which has born loads of apples. However I'm uncertain of the make and whether they are ready for consumption. All the apples have a slight abrasive skin texture and are dark green. However a few appear to have small areas of light green skin which has…
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Protection for a New Shed
I am awaiting delivery of my new 7 x 5 shed in about a weeks time for my allotment. I decided to go for a decent tongue and groove shed, which hopefully will last at least 10 years (just hoping I make it for 10 years too) I am obviously keen to protect it properly. Looking at just one shop for now (Wilko) there seems to be…
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Creeping Butterfly
This seems to have taken over my garden this year. I did my back in so was unable to weed. I still cannot dig them out. I bought organic weedkiller which did nothing. I then brought in the bad boys that I did not want to use. They had glyphosate which I thought would kill anything. One week later and they look untouched.…
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Dealing with new housing estates factor
A new estate has been built in a field behind my house, this estate has a factor managing the communal areas. 3 years ago we got a letter from their factor talking about japanese knotweed and threatening fines of up to £2500. They said the knotweed is coming into their properry from time to time. My take on it is there are…
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Wintering in conservatory vs plastic greenhouse
Starting to think about what to do with my plants over winter - they're all potted. I'm mainly concerned with the young dwarf peach and nectarine trees, and two bay saplings. We have a conservatory which gets very cold, so the door to the house will mostly be shut over winter. We'll warm it up for meals only, so I'm not…
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Which bulbs will grow through bark chippings?
As per the title, which bulbs will grow through a 2-3" layer of bark chippings? I'm guessing daffs, tulips and aliums will be fine but would snowdrops, crocuses and bluebells struggle? Also should I plant the bulbs closer to the soil surface than you ordinarily would to account for the depth of the wood chip? Thanks in…
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Newbies -Tree planting in garden, dedicating a tree and Bamboo plants
3 subject matters in 1 post. Ok so i have gone thru a really really tough time - really genuinely the worst time of my life, in this grief i feel a need to do the following and just need advice on the best places to look etc.. 1. Tree planting - looking to plant a tree in our garden, however we are very very new to this…
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Hedge suggestions ?
My first post in this part of the forum... Can any of the green fingered experts suggest an appropriate type of hedge to run along our back fence ?Idea being to reduce wind exposure in the garden and to act as a deterrent for any scrotes thinking of jumping over, something a bit prickly ? I’m no gardener but don’t mind…
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Rats keep eating my Slug Pallets!!!
Hi, I have veg growing in the garden and noticed a few days ago that Slugs were eating my hard work. So i put down some Slug Pallets. The following day noticed they were all gone, confused i added a little more. Yesterday, i saw a rat in he garden. So i now suspect its Rats that are eating the Slug Pallets. Are they not…
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Growing in ex-Japanese Knotweed area
I bought a house 6 years ago which had JKW at the bottom of the garden (about 80ft away from the house). It was only in the last 6ft or so and was coming from railway land so I didn't panic. I contacted National Rail and between us we've been spraying our respective land twice a year. This year is the first year I've not…
