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of frost will have passed in most parts of the country. Some well-rotted manure or compost worked into the bed will give plants a boost, since they are hungry feeders. (In autumn I usually make a bean trench - filling it with kitchen peelings and manure

, the longer you leave it the more it will rot. Are you doing a heap or is it encased? Can you still see the brambles because I would pull them out and dispose of them. Where are you planning on using it when it is ready? If it is a small project you could

Living on the coast I can easily collect seaweed - mainly brown.My father in law used to tell me that it was used a lot in the Channel Islands.How best can I make use of it, either as a plant food or soil conditioner ? Can I just give a word

it till autumn, then cover & leave for a year. I'm finding when I come to use it  there is some wonderful brown, crumbly soil, but a lot of it has turned into a dry, orange, fibrous mass which I doubt has any nutritional value at all. So I end up

then brown, at which point they start to fall off. I have removed the leaves as soon as I see it start to happen but it makes no difference. The roots are in the shade under slate and the tops are in sun. Anyone have any ideas as to how to stop this happening

silicone rubber one then it would only need to be done once, not every year. Spray preservatives are usually just that, they preserve the wood, letting moisture in and out but stopping fungal rot. A few years ago I noticed that in one section of my garden

unique features. Plants can be pollinated in pots in coldframes or unheated greenhouses, or outside in the open garden. It is warmer work when done in the greenhouse, but pollinated flowers are more prone to rotting when indoors. Hellebore plants

brown rotting patch apprears on the underside of the tomato and gets bigger. I've now destroyed this plant and all the others seem fine. The outside ones are perfect albeit green!No blight on the spuds but what a pathetic crop! Just not enough rain

first time growing them as well but how do you know when they are ready to harvest? I have been led to believe when I bought them that when the greenery has gone brown its time or that you can leave them for next year if the bulbs are not big, would love

be beaten - pull it down from the trees and fencing etc, cut it down to about 18 inches from the ground and destroy all the branches (brown bin, or burn or something similar or they will all grow again.   Then, when the stumps grow new shoots and leaves (it