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Gardeners' World Blog - September 2012
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A difficult year for wasps
By Kate Bradbury in
Wildlife
28 September 2012
This week has marked a change in insect behaviour in my garden – some insects have started looking for a dry place to hibernate.
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Leafhoppers on sage
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
26 September 2012
Sage is one of my favourite herbs, and I have also discovered, rather belatedly it seems, that this herb is host to an incredibly pretty leafhopper.
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Growing autumn cyclamen
By James Alexander-Sinclair in
Plants
24 September 2012
One of the first signs of autumn in this garden is the cyclamen – they are charming little things with flowers that look a bit like the Mekon from Dan Dare.
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Using green tomatoes
By Kate Bradbury in
Grow & eat
21 September 2012
From my two outdoor-grown tomato plants, I’ve harvested just two ripe tomatoes. But, luckily, I found a recipe for green tomato relish.
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Pests and diseases aplenty
By Pippa Greenwood in
Gardeners' musings
19 September 2012
I had a wonderful time diagnosing plant problems. It was my idea of heaven – a long queue of people armed with bags containing all manner of sickly plants.
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Growing colchicums
By Adam Pasco in
Plants
17 September 2012
Take your bulb, place it on a windowsill, then enjoy the flowers. With autumn-flowering colchicums, that’s all you have to do for an almost instant display.
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Dung beetles
By Kate Bradbury in
Wildlife
14 September 2012
I can’t describe how excited I was to have a dung beetle in my garden. I’d only ever seen them in the Lake District, where, presumably, they have a lovely existence breaking down sheep pellets.
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Leaf-cutter bees
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
12 September 2012
We have leaf-cutter bees nesting in the wind chimes. These, however, being bamboo, never so much chimed as clonked.
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Growing yew hedges
By James Alexander-Sinclair in
Plants
10 September 2012
People are sometimes scared to plant yew, partly because the berries are poisonous [...] and also because they worry that it will grow too slowly.
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September in the garden
By Kate Bradbury in
Gardeners' musings
07 September 2012
The cold, wet weather in May and June dampened my spirit for sowing seeds and staking plants, and any attempts to redress this were hampered by snails in July.
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