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Can anyone help with my problem please? I bought 4 small young fuchsia plants from a show in April and now they are starting to lose their leaves.  The stems are gradually going brown from the bottom upwards and when it is getting to where

exclude all meat, fat and anything that has been cooked, as these will attract vermin. I also avoid citrus remains because they are slow to rot and very acidic, which reduces worm activity.Very few plants contain the right balance of nitrogen and carbon

lifted the hard-necked although we've cut off some scapes. The leaves are just beginning to brown and I think the bulbs are smaller, probably because, unlike the Solent Wight, they've gradually become shaded by the pole beans. We had a much less

of this? HI MartinI'm afraid that your hedge will not sprout back if you cut it back hard. Instead it will be brown and dead.This sort of hard pruning works well with yew, box, laurel, privet, Lonicera ntida and other hedging shrubs but not Leylandii

at the bottom followed by whatever I'm clearing from the garden, excluding evergreens and very woody stuff. I layer it by shredding envelopes as we are not allowed to recycle them. I don't bother chopping things minutely; it is going to take 5 or 6 months to rot

/concrete/pulling up existing loose posts etc... ..so..decided to plant a hedge..be done with it...my question is.. I have tarmac, scratch the surface and there is..clay...Now...can I simply..dig a hole ( nothing too special/big )..throw in rotted manure perhaps

(air-hating) types which operate much more slowly and are what make some compost heaps smell nasty.  Ahhh right. Thanks Bob, Well I have thinned out my brown stuff as there was too much in it and am now keeping a separate bin for kitchen peelings and a

week with the coming season.  My query is that with the massive amount of grass clippings I'm taking from the area behind my cottage, it is proving too much to put in the brown bin which only gets collected every 2 weeks, and too much to be taking

garden for years i keep adding stuff to it and have only recently starting to see it all rot down but their seems to be more water in it than anything what am i doing wrong its an old black plastic bin with a lid on help me please some one Home

September I planted it in a shady spot in the garden and it continued to thrive. Sadly the leaves gradually turned brown and hard when the temperature hit minus 16 celsius, even though I covered it with a bell cloche. I finally got round to putting