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tree flowering at the same time. With cookers like Bramley, you actually need two other apple varieties to get the best results (one variety to pollinate the Bramley and the other to pollinate the pollinator). Even with two pollinating varieties close

a chance to release seeds. A single plant can produce thousands of seeds, all with potential to grow into new, seed-producing plants. Groundsel and hairy bitter cress, start flowering while still tiny, so be vigilant and remove them as they appear

? If I grow buckthorn, maybe the brimstone butterfly will come in to breed. Or perhaps a patch of red clover will attract rare bumblebees.To avoid getting carried away, I’m narrowing the list down. Here are my Top 10 plants for a dream garden:Big cushions

potash tomato feed will help encourage good flowering and fruiting.Pests have turned up too, so I'm using a safe spray called SB Plant Invigorator to provide foliar feed and control of red spider mite and whitefly.There are many crops that can still

potager – a walk-through area with beds planted prettily with vegetables instead of flowers.But if you have a conventional veg patch or allotment, with crops grown at traditional wide spacings, try intercropping. The idea of this is to sow or plant quick

down into. We've only been here a couple of hours when someone spots a huge black beetle crawling up the wall--the bloody nose beetle Timarcha tenebricosa, so called for the reflex bleeding of bitter red fluid from it's mouth if picked up. A great