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Feeding garden birds
How often do you clean your bird feeders? Once or twice a year? Whenever you refill them, or just when they’re looking dirty?
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Unwelcome wildlife
[...] my garden has become a bit of a wildlife haven, but unfortunately not all wildlife is welcome.
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Plans for a garden
[...] my main aim in 2012 is to make the garden look more established. This year I have a strict ‘no bare wall’ policy...
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Chitting seed potatoes
My newly tidied greenhouse is now playing host to the seed potatoes as they start the chitting process, despite the fact that I caught a mouse in there a week or two ago.
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Growing onions: seeds versus sets
If you grow your own onions then one choice you have is whether to raise your crop from seed or from onion sets.
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Dealing with slugs and snails
My slug visitor has thrown me into mollusc mania. I'm collecting slugs, snails and their eggs...

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