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Planting out
flower bed because this horrible weed took over early in the year while I was poorly and unable to get into the garden.  I don't know what it is called - well I call it something unprintable..  So I am digging up every shrub and perrenial and getting by pash2
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27/05/2012 10:43:53
by Robot
The average gardener
mows grass every Sunday, pulls weeds, not much imagination! ! All power to the above average gardener I agree Dove,  we need to define what average is. Here's my definition of an average gardener: Can identify plants that are in your garden Know by Dovefromabove
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02/04/2013 10:37:24
by Busy-Lizzie
'weeds' at Chelsea
many have gone for the wild 'weed' look. I have enjoyed the coverage even the red button with toby and tom, But why do thay have to have rdt on so much. Still you can't win everything. A weed is only a weed, if it's in the wrong place !! Personally I by Loraine Kelly
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02/06/2012 00:33:00
by organiclinda
Talkback: Annual allotments week
Had my allotment for 12 years lovely fresh veg all year round. Best thing I ever did. I have just got my allotment this week and it is full of nettles, lots of work to do but can I use them for compost, or should I put weed killer on them? We just by Lesley
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28/11/2011 18:29:50
by Jim
Favourite tools
, such as garden hose, hose nozzle and fitting, hose reel cart, etc. We are manufacturer for such lines. Look forward to serving you.   A Dutch hoe is a great tool for the garden. I use it to cut down annual weeds between my plants. It's also good in small areas by Kate Bradbury
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28/04/2012 10:06:36
by Marinelilium
Talkback: Companion plants
Comfrey is also very good for early nectar. Even the allegedly less invasive types have good early flowers. Another hardy annual I let seed everywhere is love in a mist which comes back year after year. Ground lilac also is good source of nectar by Vida
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28/11/2011 18:38:45
by kerys welsh
Talkback: Poppies and suchlike
need a little support at times' in which she said to cut off the leaves and hide the gaps with the right plants, I am trying to do this now. oh, above web site should have ended /theruralgardener sorry! I have never successfully moved annual poppies by Kay Fuller
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28/11/2011 18:38:53
by Sue Ann
Talkback: Gardening by the moon
annuals and perennials(this applies to 'fruit' as well - see above).If your flowers are annuals, the optimum time is in period 1 and 2, (between the new moon and the full moon). Anything that is a perennials should be planted in the third period (after by flamingkaty
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03/08/2012 16:15:34
by obelixx
Hello from a Newbie
lovely garden which I'd opened to the public for leukemia research and I used to enter the village flower shows. I've been in this house since 1990. There wasn't a garden, lots of brambles, nettles rough grass and weeds on shallow soil on limestone by Le Hibou
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21/10/2012 21:22:17
by Penninepetal
What is your kind of garden?
with their own little circle of earth around them, but they have to keep weeding. I like a mixture of shrubs,annuals and perennials and climbers for all seasons, with a small patch for a few veg.. There's never a time with no colour in my garden, even by Gardening Grandma
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02/08/2012 22:33:40
by hilaryjones1