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, even using compost. Then there's plant sap - euphorbia is particularly dangerous, as it can cause temporary blindness.I'm lucky I only stubbed my toe, even if it did look a lot worse. But what about you? Have you ever come a cropper in the garden?

, so I'll go back for them another time.)I can't wait to get sowing on the weekend. I'll remove the seeds from their (now swollen) hips and sow them in a pot of fresh compost. As the seeds require a good dose of cold, followed by a warm spell

apples) from the 'pink-pink-pink' alarm call he uses when I'm putting the compost out. He also makes gurgling canary-like noises with his beak shut when he seems really content - much more melodious than his namesake.The robin's song is higher pitched

the top layer of soil, replace it with fresh, home-made compost and give all the plants a good water. Any vine weevil grubs will be dispatched to the blackbird, and the thyme replaced with some garlic chives, which I'm ready to plant out. I'll prune out

flowering, to ensure they have enough energy to grow the chillies, tomatoes or beans we're growing them for. This is especially pertinent when growing them in containers, as there is only a finite amount of nutrients in the compost. Once this is used up

to be grown at higher altitude than they would normally grow.The terraces were filled with a mixture of sand, rock and topsoil, and fertilised with compost and guinea pig manure. Waterfalls were diverted to act as an irrigation system. They either trickled

the offending plants and what to do if you have them growing in your pond (remove and compost them, basically).Great. But what should we plant in our ponds to replace the offenders? My blog on dead frogs highlighted the need for oxygenating plants to maintain

the leaves, burns the logs and piles everything in the compost.Our Facebook poll suggests many of you are willing to compromise your gardening practices for wildlife. Christina Goozee suggests "it is about time we leeches on the natural world gave back

to dismantling and removing it, only to find around 15 frogs buried in the compost, asleep. I quickly covered them back up and left them alone again.Frogs residing in grow bags is nothing knew. I spoke to frog expert Jules Howard, who said grow bags make

where the nest was before I moved it after sundown. It was originally at the bottom of a compost bin, but when that was moved by the landscapers it exposed the nest beneath a pile of twigs. All I had to do was slide a spade under the nest and lift