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, but we love it as it is - so do the birds. please keep asking questions of everyone as much as you like, we all learn something from eah other, and we all had to start somewhere- most of all, enjoy your garening.  Don't forget with hostas

not be as hard on the globosa variety, they do not make such strong regrowth.   Although it's good to leave the seeds for the birds, if your bush is in a windy location you should reduce it's height by 1/2 to 1/3 in the autumn to prevent wind-rock, then do you

the warmer weather arrives - say spring?     If you live in a cold area you are best leaving the trimming until spring, because the dead foliage will protect the crown. It also allows birds to benefit from the seeds and gives insects, including beneficial

really should be kind to them, even if you don't like the idea of snakes much. My mum and dad love their life. I am a home bird but even I would be tempted with their lifestyle. My dad has started another project today with raising the roof of his piggery

's if the birds had left me anything to protect. I just use metal or wooden rods to anchor it to the ground.   I would take a photo but it's pouring down right now so I'll try tomorrow so you can see how it works.  My plot looks a bit like tent city but I'd rather

trouble with french beans, also, spring onions, and had to have two sowings of courgettes and squash, peas are fine though, except birds have had a few tips off,  pak choi is doing very well, in greenhouse in old washing up bowls, with no drainage, don

to hijack this discussion but I have the problem that I had blossom then pollination and then the b****y ravens/rooks/other evil black birds ate/pecked off what I did have.  Is this a problem for others? Surely I do not need a net for apples?  It is a

, from birds etc., Then they just come out & nibble away on the nearest greenery. My mum used to save her egg shells to use as a gravel type base for hers. But I'm not sure if it worked. I do recall her telling me we had some "very brave slugs, who didn

the birds whilst mowing the lawn. Cetti wrote (see) ..I thought about an old-fashioned hand-push one as I have always enjoyed using my dad's... Today's push mowers are not actually like the 'old-fashioned' mowers. Today's push mowers are light

have had blackbirds nesting in the ivy this year.  Ivy takes a little while to get going but pyracantha just romps away and the birds love it.  Just a few ideas.  Linda The plants have grown way above the trellis, adding about another 2 feet