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Midges/mosquito help!!!

I'm also one of those people that the gnats, midgesd and mosquitoes always make a bee-line for and have been very ill and on antibiotics in the past because of awful bites getting infected - I can  vouch for Avon's Skin so Soft - I've not been bitten since I started using it - even when holidaying on the west coast of Scotland!!!

Today I feel so happy....

What sun??? It's not here today - we have the wet stuff instead - but the garden does need it - everything will really start to grow now 

Yes, Welcome Kef 

MORNING FORKERS

Right, I'm off to work, but TGIF 

Have a lovely day folks - see you later 

MORNING FORKERS

Morning Andy - while you're at the GC, could you pick up some little fibre pots for me to pot my tomato seedlings on into - I've not got enough left from last year and I forgot to get some yesterday when I went to buy the fleece - don't want to have to go to the GC again this week 

Broad beans

Don't forget that if you do take out the tops of your broad beans, you can cook and eat them - delicious steamed with a little butter 

MORNING FORKERS

Good morning all   We've got rain   We've only got it because I gave up waiting for it and watered the garden yesterday evening - it I hadn't done that it wouldn't have rained 

Again 7C overnight - but I bought some new fleece yesterday for the broad beans tonight - they're in flower and there's a sharp frost forecast according to my potato-farming brother.  

white bugs eating roots of fuchsia

But before you buy vine weevil killer, please read this http://gardenofeaden.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/imidacloprid-provado-and-threat-to-bees.html and this  http://www.soilassociation.org/wildlife/bees/householdpesticides 

It is now believed that the plants take up the nicotinoids and it is then in the pollen, which is what is causing the bee colony collapse.  Once you've used it on a plant it's there for four months, maybe longer 

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Welcome Jacci  

There have been some technical problems with the site which are getting sorted - I understand there's a rebuild happening - but I thought most of the problems were solved by now.  

I'm not having problems any more - what are you using, laptop, pc, iPad?  Not that I could explain any likely problems but the more info you put up here the more likely some of the much more technically savvy people will be able to help - I'm sure someone will get to the bottom of things so don't give up on us ....

MORNING FORKERS

So sorry Maud 

Broad beans

Mine are flowering too - I've given the ground a good soaking as it's very dry - and I'll be fleecing them tomorrow night as we've been promised -2C

Hosta flowering - shall I or shan't I?

Butterflies

Hellebore Addiction

Hedgehog Watch!!!

The average gardener

Growing giant pumpkins

Back to the top?

Windchimes

Battening down the hatches

Signs of Spring!!!

Protecting the outside tap from frost

Ash tree disease!

Weeding - a forgotten skill? Discuss ....

Berry-eating birds will need more help this year

Strange seed pods - any ideas?