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could this be the cause?

On 20/02/2013 in forum

those sciarids. Wine flies drift around, landing in the wine just as you raise it to your lips.  They are like fruit flies. I just want my home back now and no flies included im really hoping someone can help me. Ive checked everywhere for things


What do I need for my greenhouse?

On 19/03/2012 in forum

/gardening items list! Can anyone offer me any help or advice? Thanks in advance! x Hi meema, if you're growing things that need to be started off before it warms up outside, or plants that need it to be good and warm throughout their growing season, you could


Garden table

On 10/12/2012 in forum

-stuck What a nice lot of plants in the picture easy fill hanging baskets as well, I have one of those easy fill basket but did not do that well as plants were a bit small to get big enough to cover basket and slugs kept eating the plants. What does the table


Cosmos seeds.

On 26/02/2013 in forum

that the Summer was so poor as they would have done even better, as soon as they got into their own Autumn arrived. I will stake mine this year as some of them got battered by all that rain and wind They lopk really great if you plant them in big drifts and go


Talkback: Daffodils

On 28/11/2011 in forum

by all the attention, my solitary daff is just being joined by a couple more, perhaps though they are simply being forced out of the soil by the vast quantities of RAIN going in to it!! Living in the South West my drifts of Snowdrops are usually very


Talkback: What to do with your old Christmas tree

On 28/11/2011 in forum

looking. (Can we say "phallic" on the BBC?)In the past we used to let our Christmas trees dry out, and them we'd eventually burn them in the fireplace. The branches are useful also for protecting tender plants from late frosts. How about this? it was done


Talkback: Unpleasant plant smells

On 01/07/2012 in forum

of staff not to wear it because it affected me so badly.  And I can't stand it to this day.  (fortunately, it's not particularly popular, I think.  A bit like Brut aftershave - yuk!)  Sorry - drifted away from plant smells.  But I can remember only too well


Talkback: Autumn lawn care

On 27/12/2011 in forum

/ fungi infesting my lawn, which is very close to this wood pile?Would spores drift onto the lawn? Reply to Paul: Fungal spores may land on the lawn from decaying wood fungi, but they wouldn't grow unless they had old wood under the lawn to grow on


Dead thrushes and the bloody nose beetle

On 18/08/2010 in Wildlife

clunking clockwork model of a beetle, it'll be feeding on the white or yellow bedstraws, drifts of which stain the surrounding fields.Sunday 8th Lizards are everywhere sunning themselves on walls and steps; everywhere we walk they are disturbed from


Talkback: Impatiens downy mildew

On 03/07/2012 in forum

these plants on a large scale Ruth harris Hi Guys, this has happened in Lowestoft too. I am a retired commercial grower, and when this happened to my Busies I was so upset - and my pride was hurt! The weird thing was that there were no obvious signs. I looked


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