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for thw winter and put them in soups and stews you will then get addad flavour - it is delicious. Will try dandelion, as they seem to just pop up everywhere. What about clover,white/mauve? seem to remember as a child eating mauve coloured flowers. I have

on the impossibility of getting rid of them & just live with them, the same goes for moss, with forests full of it all around its impossible to get rid of it & as for clover, the other field bounding our garden is carefully sown annually with it, get rid of it

The last few years I have grown a vegetable plot in my garden  which is about 3-4m wide by about 11-12 m long.However this year I have not grown anything at all apart from clover as a green manure over winter. Last weekend I dug the land over

animal dung. Another way is through crop rotation. Legumes (peas and clover) are capable of fixing nitrogen from the air. Growing potatoes on a plot formerly used for legumes would be one way of solving the problem. So it is possible to produce food from

some plugs, like this:  I had a disaster with some red clover plugs. The day after I'd planted, some animal ate most of the top growth on the little plants. So these are now covered with cloches for protection: Well done on your planting. Its all good

If any of you heard Kate on Gardener's Question Time last week, she gave a very brave defence of wildlife in the face of a concerted 'push' from the BBC to sell us the idea that Neonicotinoid Pesticides are 'alright if used according to manufacturers instructions'.  Kate pointed ...

the bee apart as it tries to pull it out. I love to watch the bees buzzing around the garden so I have lots of plants that attract them. They love the white clover which is making a takeover bid in the lawn but seeing bees on the lawn makes up

in the middle of the grass eating the clover. just back from a lovely 2 week holiday, safe in the knowledge that the rabbits had done a runner!!yeah rightevery single carrot, beetroot and parsnip gone from my veg patch!!im gonna get me a gun. I was horrified

before I can get going? You can't plant much right now. I'd sow seeds of a green manure, such as red clover, now, which will stop the nutrients leaching from the soil and add plenty of nitrogen, phosphates and potassium too (essential for healthy plant

, dandelions, I quite agree, they're stunning. But then you see I also find clover, both its foliage and its honey-scented flowers, really attractive and yes, I even like it in grass, far more interesting than plain old grass.....and wonderful to lie amongst