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Persistent weeds

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 26/02/2008 10:54:00

. Garden twine where, if you open the cellophane package the wrong way then the loose end becomes strangely elusive. All of these things are certain to put me in a very bad mood.Not so tangles of weeds; I rather enjoy the gradual teasing and tickling


Garden sheds - pesticides of the past

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 08/04/2008 11:18:00

for garden use in the 1970s. Liquid nicotine is extremely dangerous to all living creatures and was used widely as an insecticide for many, many years. It was either mixed with water as a spray or else vaporised in lamps - in which case the gardener lit


To spray, or not to spray?

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 28/09/2009 11:40:56

To spray, or not to spray? That is indeed the question.A couple of decades ago it was not really a question worth asking: pretty much every gardener killed stuff indiscriminately. Aphids? Aaarghh ... squirt. Mildew? Gothcha … squirt. Worm casts


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