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Ive grown cat mint from seed and although its growing well should i nip it out to encourage the plants to thicken up? I nip out a couple of the shoots, so that it flowers longer and it does bush out a bit more. I agree - would definetely nip out

I would like to know a few ideas about keeping cats fom using the garden as a toilet as I'm having trouble with them in my vegetable garden.  I would like ideas from people who have actually used these ideas and they have worked. Many thanks

Hi all Im sure this is an old and boring question...but do I need to change the soil in my raised bed? I didn't use it last year and it is full of weeds and cat poo. thanks Hello How deep is your raised bed ? Hi Two tiered but at its deepest about

started my own copost heap two years ago year went well,  this year it smells like cats pee were have i went wrong.  help     Here I go again, spouting frm a position of general ignorance. The smell of ammonia is a sign that you have put too much

I really love these but have never managed to grow them in my own garden. I buy from reputable sellers, have tried direct in ground and in pots/troughs but never had any grow. What am I doing wrong? In desperation I am having some from my neighbour's garden in the hope that, if t...

, my two thyme plants (well established) are showing the same symptoms, my cat mint (cut back in the autumn) started with new leaves but has died too...I have a pink geranium (broad petaled -like the purple one but pink) -which is looking unhappy - I

, frogs and toads wander through occasionally. Blue tits, pigeons and magpies were about on Sunday morning, and when a Siamese cat strutted along the back wall we contemplated the Mammal Society's and RSPB's calculations that cats kill some 55 million

I have cats. Every so often I have to live with the guilt that they kill the local wildlife. It's usually one of the mice breeding in the compost heaps or a blue-tit fledgling. The main hunter is the black and white one; lovely and soft and over

It was getting dark, the cat was skulking after something in the shadows around the hutch and the guinea pig was squealing its head off. Something sinister on the patio? No, just another stag beetle.I often say how privileged I feel to have