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Brocolli and other brassicas

and impacted. Covering them with netting has kept off butterflies but slugs did get to a few seedlings, I'm hopeful they should produce a reasonable crop though, 'the cups always half full and not half empty' Slugs have got at my spinach, chad and beetroot by Madeleine51

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23/07/2012 22:26:12

by Zoomer44

Autumn and what now?

with a long flowering peroid such as snapdragons, rudebekias, cosmos & scabious. Time will tell but these are meant to flower until oct depending on where you live. Saw a large butterfly on the rudebekias this morning and the snapdragons have provided a by Cia

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20/09/2012 22:28:38

by carolinesmith

Suggestions please

, and transplant easily too. Daylilies are also easy - hemerocallis - and their strappy foliage is good for contrast. Sedum spectabile (ice plant) is quick to bulk up, late to flower and very popular with bees and butterflies. Again, easy to split and increase your by yvonne parsons2

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22/02/2013 21:18:38

by Verdun

Plants from cuttings

they get to big for their space. They provide lovely colour at the end of the season and attract many bees and butterflies. This photo was taken in mid September. by Verdun

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26/03/2013 13:51:58

by Caz W

slugs and toddlers

. The thrushes have a special "smash the living hell out of it" place for preparing their snails. As long as you dont get too "precious" about the plants and concentrate more on things like - attracting butterflies, bees, birds, hedgehogs it all seems to just by dibladocus

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17/04/2013 01:04:19

by Sam12

Beekeeping

in approach. how far do bees travel from the hive, the gardens in the lakeland fells are few and far between. if a hive is in the middle of a patch of heather how far will they go?? i try to be bee and butterfly and insect friendly in my garden and allow by Beekeeper Gardener

15/05/2013 16:47:05

by Alan4711

Talkback: The no-dig method

planting through a membrane will help me in my extreme old age, Adam, and, as for extra watering ,I already have a large waterbutt by the veg.garden which is filled from a caravan roof but I have a spare one in the butterfly garden which I will move down by Baloo66

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09/01/2012 20:01:42

by peteballan

July in the garden!!

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29/07/2012 23:15:10

by weejenny

Talkback: Growing veg in containers - garden pests

the Cabbage White butterflies off!Runner Beans, Broad Beans, Carrots, Parsnips, Raspberries and Strawberries are all doing well. My first batch of peas failed but not being one to give up and to learn from my mistakes the second batch is growing well. To make by Jane

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28/11/2011 18:43:46

by tillymint21

Welcome to the garden design forum

're hard to kill! Have you onsidered a mixed hedge of nativeshrubs and trees to benefit the wildife - birds, bees,butterflies and insects of all sorts, Steve? If you go to the Jordans Cereals site and go backa few pages youwill find they have just planted by Daniel Haynes

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27/07/2012 11:56:19

by junglemad

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