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Talkback: Summer bedding plants
my mums got the hump as shes spent loads of money at the garden centre this week and she put them out the front in the chimmey pots and the birds keep sitting ontop of the flowers and they have broke the stems of the flowers.the birds by sarahs pondlife...
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28/11/2011 18:43:44
by 22bascote
Talkback: The strange case of the wilting wisteria
I hope you both remembered to take off the plant lables or any close fitting ties on the main stem. I heard this problem on a GQT session and despite years of experience the gardener had still left a tie so tight it choked the plant to death by Honesty
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28/03/2012 13:16:48
by Susan T.
The wrong kind of birds
-feeding their faces but they have young to feed too so I'm not over zealous. We have created an unnatural environment and we need to tolerate 'the wrong kinds of birds' or stop feeding them all together. After two incidents of rats in my garden, I took the Pest by Shrinking Violet
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14/05/2012 21:57:01
by Cetti
Welcome to the problem solving forum
Don't be downcast if your favourite plants are ravaged by bugs, beetles or blight. Share your woes with fellow gardeners, and someone will come to your aid. Similarly, if you can answer a cry for help, please do so! Daniel Haynes Editor by Daniel Haynes
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30/04/2013 00:42:01
by shahwon
Talkback: Wasps
!! please can you tell me how i can stop them from consuming my wooden balcony thanks :-) They help to control aphids, they are carnivorous so good for gardeners. In answer to Margo's query, wasps are part of the great, big, biodiverse picture by mmfp
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24/02/2012 23:08:05
by Pestsurrey
Talkback: Potato blight
I have just started my own little veggie patch in the garden and I keep getting all these tiny little caterpillars that eat all my strawberries and my mum says that I'm not allowed to use pesticides or anything like that so how do I stop by Mr John Phillips
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28/11/2011 18:29:43
by Jacqui
Talkback: Sweetcorn
will tell. I wasn't brave enough to go the whole way & plant beans to grow up the sweetcorn! Try adding charcoal and manure to increase yield. Hi! my raised beds are new this season and are at the bottom of the garden under a large willow tree. i propagated by Graham Heyes
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28/11/2011 18:36:42
by tryingliz
June in Your Garden!
Here goes the full on month of June Some more photos, hope you don't get bored            and just to show the massive gaps...   An Invitation to View Junw 2012. Ok,so here is the garden this morning. I could go by Wintersong
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03/07/2012 18:45:07
by donutsmrs
Talkback: Garden birds and the Big Garden Birdwatch
, chaffinches, thrush,fieldfare, siskins, woodpeckers, robins. My neighbour had a goldcrest and a friend sent me lovely photos of a woodcock in her snowy garden.Margaret, Cardross I answered the call to feed the birds and went and bought three different feeders by Rosemary62
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28/11/2011 18:40:12
by ken
Talkback: Death-watch beetles
heating will dry out the oak and the beetles will not survive. I am also informed that because of this we will not need to use insecticide. Does anyone know if this is so? two or threeyeays ago i saw one in an old elm? stump in my london garden. Reply by dfdfdhfdrc
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28/11/2011 18:38:28
by dyrandra Tasmania