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Around the garden job checklist - week 36

On 23/11/2011 in Around the garden checklists

Lay new turf and re-sow bare patches of lawnPot up colchicums into decorative containers for bringing into the housePut up bug boxes to provide places for beneficial insects to hibernateCut attractive seed heads for indoor arrangementsSpread netting


Conifer Hedge dead or alive.

On 27/01/2012 in forum

of conifers - also quite old. Most of them are fine however some developed brown patches and seem to be dying off. we had tree specialists around to cut the conifers and they said that many conifers across the country have been attacked this year by aphid


Plant in pot leftover from last year - identify?

On 22/04/2012 in forum

no matter how weakly.   I've left it in the picture to give you a perspective of size to the plant above it.   The top plant with the black patches on the leaves is a mystery to me.  I don't remember it last year and I don't remember any plant with black


Lawn Trouble

On 02/02/2013 in forum

Hi, I have been in my house for two years.The lawn was fine when we moved in.Our house is on an old mushroom field apparently. Our lawn has gradually become very patchy with the patches like compacted holes. I tried to reseed last year which was a


Best large/wide hedges

On 17/04/2012 in forum

Hi there, i have a really large back garden, which unfortunatly backs onto a small carpark and a patch used for kids to play on and cut through to the other side of the street, my fence is a standard council size at 3.5 foot tall, i got a quote


lawn problems

On 18/08/2012 in forum

Hi, I got a new lawn this year and we laid it by turf. It was perfectly fine but i mowed it 2 months later and I think it over cut so there are many yellow patches in my lawn and  It also looks dry. Are there any feeds that I can use in August


Smelly mud patch

On 29/04/2013 in forum

Hi anyone got any ideas?! Just wondering what the problem is I have a smelly patch of bubbly mud that keeps rising as if something is fermenting! There is a cut off root end beneath the mud piI which is why I am presuming is the problem!!! Any idea


meadow plants

On 22/02/2012 in forum

? Hi dobby, are you planning to plant into a grassed area or start from scratch on a    patch of bare earth?  If you're planting in grass, cut the grass as low as you can then rake it to create bare patches.  It's best to sow yellow rattle seed onto


eucalyptus

On 30/03/2012 in forum

-contamination? Now the leaves of the euc are sagging and have pink spots and I have even noticed 2 patches of powdery white fungus on the bark. Partner insists: "that's how they get their energy through the leaves- don't cut them off" (which I regret listening


instant garden

On 10/02/2012 in forum

i recently moved house well bought my own left home and the garden well what garden! its on a slope the front is huge but on a 80 degree angle with no privacy the back is all concrete with the exception off a small patch in the middle which Ive


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