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Talkback: Of rats and tree rats
-down plastic bottle feeders and the starlings spread the seeds far and wide. I watched a couple of rats feed and collect seeds (I keep fancy rats so I was enchanted - at first) But then they brought their mates and relatives in to feast on the bounty and I had by SuziQ
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28/11/2011 18:30:14
by Leave ratty alone!
Talkback: Long-tailed tits
couple of years at our bird feeding station, particularly after fats, and the seeds in the fats, they only appear for a few weeks January/February, then disappear for the rest of the year, we live in South Wales, is anyone else recording these birds by Radarsmum67
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28/11/2011 18:38:19
by Lesley
Good Evening FORKERS
  Drum roll ..................... trumpet ... Evening Brumbull Been out cutting down some branches today lots of arm aching pain and checked my plastic green house seeds - some bits starting to grow. still cold and windy though in Southampton by Brumbull
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03/05/2013 23:55:57
by Zoomer44
Talkback: Mulch, mulch, mulch
We have recently collected seaweed blown up in a storm and left above the usual high tide mark. We have just started growing vegetables this year in deep beds - not grown any before. Any comments as to how we can use the seaweed. We have put some by Paul Narramore
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28/11/2011 18:30:56
by Fereadapota
Talkback: Camellia
. Thanks Meg Can camellia flowers be composted Yes, camellia flowers can be collected and picked off shrubs and composted. My camellia has little (1/2" - 1") green balls all over it. Are these just seed pods, or is it some evil critter I need to dispose of by Starlight
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28/11/2011 18:30:58
by BenSherman
Sizzling Summer Plant Deal
brought inside. Collect seed from violas to sow for next year.  The reason that this is a deal is it is anticipated to be disposable. Thanks So i have just wasted money? £15 All i want is some prertty flowers for my garden to add loads of colour all by pash2
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16/06/2012 12:57:40
by Mummy Muddy Paws
Talkback: Cosmos
This isn't about Cosmos, but reminded me of the first plants I tried to grow from seed, aged about 5 or 6 I guess. Lavatera (great success), cornflowers (brilliant success) and aquilegia (total fail), and I can still remember the disappointment by hazel.luskin@gmail.com
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28/11/2011 18:39:38
by 22bascote
shade loving ground cover
- be warned!  I now cut it down at the first sign of seed heads, and even so it pops up everywhere, and is too tall  and big to allow it its head as I can do with other plants. Also for dry shade, pachysandra is very good, nicely shaped leaves and white spikey by Tigger Tom
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03/06/2012 09:35:56
by auntie betty
New to gardening-need help!
, and they produce both lovely white flowers and delicious strawberrys! They are also produce more plants easily with both runners and seeds, and even the plants themselves can be split, so do pay for themselves. I did manage to grow sweetcorn once in a very by fabulousemmalina
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14/07/2012 10:20:55
by figrat
Talkback: Plants that evoke memories
of my late husband - it was his favourite plant as they self seeded all over his mother's garden when nothing else would thrive. Red geraniums too, Kate, my father's last plant he cared for at 91 was a lovely red geranium. I love poetry and paintings so by Mandy
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28/11/2011 18:44:04
by Martin A.