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Slugs, rain and nematodes

By Pippa Greenwood on 05/06/2008 17:30:00

soggy mess.One advantage of the rainfall has been the success of the biological control I applied to some areas of my kitchen garden. Nematodes are added to water and applied to the soil in spring. They thrive in warm, moist soil and when they come


Autumn lawn care

By Pippa Greenwood on 02/10/2008 15:10:00

.It's never been a posh lawn, but when we put the shed up we turned it into a disaster zone. Even well-maintained lawns could do with a bit of autumn lawn care. Top-dressing with soil is a great way to straighten out uneven lawn surfaces, and in our case we


Snow and ice in the garden

By Pippa Greenwood on 14/01/2010 11:58:32

been pushed out of the soil by the freeze, and are probably done for. Luckily most rows were covered with fleece or net-covered cloches, which are now bowed down with snow. I won't knock the snow off as it's acting like an insulating blanket, and also


Algae in the garden

By Pippa Greenwood on 23/02/2011 16:53:25

. The soil is saturated in many areas and, with rain continuing to fall, the air is pretty damp, too.So, what can I do about it? Well, forking in the surface covering of algae on the soil will do the trick there. The algae on the trees I can ignore. (People


Autumn heatwave

By Pippa Greenwood on 05/10/2011 12:25:03

the kids’ trampoline. It’s amazing how much difference the shade makes; you can feel the drop in temperature beneath the net, and the soil is noticeably damper.Sitting in the sunshine, I’m watching the confused wasps buzzing around a bowl of strawberries, a


Growing early potatoes

By Pippa Greenwood on 12/03/2009 08:15:18

's not essential. By getting the tubers into the ground a little earlier you should be able to enjoy a delicious crop of first-earlies a few weeks before other crops are ready to harvest. Choose a sunny spot in your garden and warm the soil for a few days


Wind and rain damage in the garden

By Pippa Greenwood on 28/11/2012 10:37:28

to deep mud. They’re in a worse state than they get into in the depths of a wet winter, and it’s only the end of November. I’ve had to plant the last of my spring-flowering bulbs in containers, as I can’t plant them into the saturated soil. In an attempt


Living with lichen

By Pippa Greenwood on 13/09/2007 10:19:35

gardening advice to the RHS members...but never before have I had my own. All of a sudden they cropped up, just down towards the bottom of the drive (which is basically soil that we compacted and then added scalpings to shortly after we moved in about 11


Daffodils

By Pippa Greenwood on 10/01/2008 10:12:00

charming since about the 7th of December. Even the snowdrops around it haven't budged, and remain stubbornly beneath the hard crust of soil.I understand that there are funny things happening all over our gardens, up and down the country, but this little


Manure

By Pippa Greenwood on 28/03/2008 11:32:00

to discover that it was riddled with thin plastic strips, rather like the stuff you find inside a music cassette. Useless. Far too much to pick out and I certainly wasn't prepared to incorporate it into my lovely (albeit rather heavy clay) Hampshire soil


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