Welshonion

Azalea

Are they garden plants or were they given to you as pot plants for indoors?

Thompsons

End of January seems a good time to chit potatoes.  Good Friday is the traditional day to plant your early potatoes.  Excellent timing.

You ask how to stop them chitting.  Why?  Surely you want them to chit?

I place them in egg trays in the light, but in a cool place.  You want short but sturdy chits.

Beetroot and Water Voles--Keeping them away!

Sounds like rats to me!

New fork handle to old fork tine

If you swell the shaft before you hammer it in it will become loose when it dries out.

I always put a securing bolt through the hole, but ensure it won't catch your hand when you are digging.

The light fingered kohl rabi thief.

happymarion wrote (see)

Awww, shame.  Do you have fox visitors.  Luscious kohlrabi would be right up their street.

I don't think any self-respecting fox would eat kholrabi!  Could be a two-legged thief.

Poorly Pots

Even if they are dwarf they still run out of food.  What do you feed them on?  How often?  Do they ever run out of water?

Tackling erosion

I don't think you have given enough information.  Do you need a retaining wall?  Is another land-slip going to be inconvenient or dangerous?  Ferns are not deep-rooting enough to hold much back.  Take a look at how the Highways Agency does it.  Perhaps you need to stabilise the bank with wire netting before you plant.

Hedging

Holly and Hawthorn can be hedge or tree, but Oak and Alder are better as trees rather than hedge. Dog rose is a nice filler.  Had you thought of hazel or blackthorn or whitebeam?

Honeysuckle 'Winter Beauty'

Does everybody think pruning back is the answer to shy flowering?

drought vs to much rain.

Sorry Colin that is so impractical and simplistic I don't think you have really given the problem of low light levels, low temperatures and excess rain much thought.  Unless your question is a riddle of some sort.  Is it?

I wish you a better year this year.

Fig Tree Care

Swifts