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Encouraging bats in our gardens
- in the summer they swoop low over our garden taking moths and and midges before they fly over the hill to the marshes - one warm evening I lay on my back on the lawn while OH watched a bat swoop back and forth only a few inches above me - a wonderful experience by obelixx
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20/04/2013 19:02:23
by nutcutlet
heloo every one
is usually full of them but not las yr. gail - what a great attitude - welcoming greenfly as food. I find weeding is a whole lot easier if i think of it as harvesting material for my compost heap - the more the better ! me too and a tip for any one if you by gail collins
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18/05/2013 22:37:18
by Pennine Petal
Why did you all start gardening?
with'. As I got older it was my job to mow her lawn.... When we had our first house OH & me tried, but with a clay soil, a North facing plot, neighbours' children damaging things with footballs etc & lack of time, it just meant that we kept the lawns by Busy-Lizzie
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01/01/2013 23:35:50
by Busy-Lizzie
Crazy paving
Hi all I dont know what to about the crazy paving in my new country cottage garden - any ideas on what I can do about it? Can I lay stone slabs on top of it? Shall i dig it out and lay lawn over? Lay gravel over it? Any good economical ideas from by Annie Glyn
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12/06/2012 21:43:49
by Julie Stoakes
Talkback: Snow and ice in the garden
longer, warmer spring days. can anyone help me with my lawn? It is somewhat of a slope and the water runs right to the bottom which meant that the top was very dry prior to the snow. Now that the snow has melted the lawn looks like it has been suffocated by Nixby
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28/11/2011 18:40:12
by Callander girl
Ornamental grasses
to be? In my own garden I use ornamental grasses but plant them along with irises and crocosmias to give a sort of semi-formal look. My reason for this is that I have an area of short mown lawn neatly edged and surrounded by perennial borders. My 'semi by christopher2
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31/07/2012 20:50:19
by christopher2
Talkback: Derelict gardens
Yea, appreciation, at last! I will tell Peter and the boys! I filled my front garden many years ago with shrubs, flowers,dwarf? trees and let it get on with attracting the wildlife and weeds in the few spaces. It teems with birds and insects by Allotment Robin
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28/11/2011 18:41:33
by kaycurtis
April in Your Garden
of 'Suncherry'.    I find Golden Sunrise superlative for cooking but not as sweet as is stated by those that sell it. My 4 months of struggle has begun also today as the first weeding of 'the Monster' took place.   This is the dreaded 'Horse's Tail' weed by kate1123
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01/05/2012 19:11:45
by Wintersong
Talkback: Insects on compost heaps
shredding machines, and the woodwork department have given us "some" of their vast quantities of sawdust. Added to this are the lawn cuttings from our garden club lawn, the weeds and prunings and we have a great pile. Aparently, according to Bob Flowerdew by Estelle Bryers
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28/11/2011 18:31:33
by Wendy's-worms
Talkback: Quicker compost
an awfully long time to break down-how can I speed it up and where best to use the leaf mould? I find the leaves take ages too unles you can chop them up in a lawn-mower. In fact I have decided to add the leaves to the compost hep now, just not too many at a by Girlsrock2
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28/11/2011 18:39:48
by jewelry making