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in the same place each year but dig a trench and fill it with compostable materials. Any ideas? HI, I have seen runner beans already growing in pots at a local diy centre, Is it wise to buy and plant them in early April? I have bean...sorry been told that its

"wasteland" ..... so overgrown with everything imaginable and untouched for a good 5 years..... we are on clay too, so all I did was mix in some top soil, compost, and some manure to make the flowerbeds ..... seems to be working....for the Lupins at least

blight is nigh impossible to control, but you could spray preventatively with a copper based fungicide next time around! Thanks for the advice Pippa - all plants now binned.Can the compost be spread on the flower beds or is it too contaminated?The next

your life easier in the long run. Also, I would advise you not to put those perennial weeds on your compost bin. Get rid of them some other way (we burn ours).Good luck Surplus lettuce (and other salad) leaves? They make excellent "spinach". Steamed

. Both my girls have learnt that to get rid of a spider from indoors all you have to do is put a glass over the top and slide a card underneath. Then just bung it by the compost bin to join its outdoor brothers and sisters. Thanks for the info. I found a

for the birds I was out walking in Cumbria this weekend when I came upon dozens of snails of all sizes in a crevice in the trunk of a large tree. I poked them with my stick but they were stuck fast. I've found them under stones and in the compost heap

it in a brown paper envelope until it popped right open.I saw a packet at my local garden centre and identified it as cup and saucer vine.My daughter (12) popped it in some potting compost and they are growing very nicely in an unheated greenhouse now

the way your forecast says "UK" and has gentle 19MPH winds for this afternoon. Up here in central Scotland the wind has yet again reached howling speeds and the lid of my compost bin has just flown past the window!The secret of success in this garden

not or I would have heard about them before I suppose Great questions. So come on Richard, post some answers !! Reply to Prompter: OK OK. No time no time no time. Here are some answers.Reply to Compost Queen and AnneI got into trouble with a reader of a

for tadpoles etc, and then squeeze out the handful, letting the water and its microscopic life back into the pond. The blanket weed goes onto the compost heap.I had a fabulous experience the other day. I couldn't understand why one particular frog (one