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Talkback: Lifting and dividing

and evening during the winter. This, of course, creates a great deal of wood ash. Can some one please advise me how much is safe to put on my veg beds. What a lot of questions...Carol: Best to mix the ash into your compost heap rather than spreading too much by chilipops

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28/11/2011 18:38:08

by Wendy

Talkback: Self-seeding plants

Gardeners' World mag. some years ago. I'd never really thought about this until reading this blog so I just had a wander round the front garden to jog my memory. I hate formal gardens with box hedges and straight borders but thought I was well in control by aromarach

28/11/2011 18:38:47

by Cass

Talkback: Harlequin ladybirds

to hibernate,is this getting more common Birmingham. About a month ago I saw my first Harlequin ladybird in my mixed garden border in Shrewsbury. My feelings were ambivalent - should Iexterminate it as a pest? But as I won't kill anything in the garden I by gerry

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28/11/2011 18:39:51

by gardengirl

Talkback: Ivy

gardening done to it - weeding from borders, trimming away from gutters, but it is easy to pull out and does not sting. And who would be without ivy at Xmas? Good luck with your baby, Kate. Why not feed it with some of your compost and watch carefully by Anne Wareham

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28/11/2011 18:44:12

by elsie123

Plants still in flower

is looking after them? My rhodedendeum also flowered in november!!!! I agree, i had a mixed pot of flowers in the garden that last flowered in August/ late summer and they have just started to flower again!!!! These seasons have all turned really weird. I by ruth BAILEY

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13/02/2012 14:37:24

by animm74

shade loving ground cover

off just about anything else. Looks really good with dark geranium phaeum and purple alliums all just mixed up randomly. And if is gets away, there's always bramble-killer! Wow, so good to hear positive things about the variegated ground elder, I agree by Tigger Tom

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03/06/2012 09:35:56

by auntie betty

2 year-old Choisya ternata

. (It's a very small garden and this slim section of a side border is only about 8 foot long x 2 foot wide). However, last autumn I had dug-in manure and in Feb this year I added leafmould. The soil mix looks lovely and dark and is fairly light by yarrow2

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17/07/2012 13:20:31

by yarrow2

slug slime

have mentioned my bucket of snails a couple of times. This was collected in an alarmingly short period of time Thats amazing.. Where did you dispose of that? I read a post this mornng about mixing flour and water in a dish that you sink to ground level by schubbs

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03/08/2012 14:59:53

by blairs

Peony Tree

'd totally forgotten this beautiful paeony Paeonia mlokosewitschii - it's on my wsh list - it'll be perfect in my new front garden border (if I ever get it dug). Thanks for the reminder Agreed Dove, a beautiful flower - Paeonia mlokosewitschii Brumbull, I by Brumbull

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02/04/2013 08:12:11

by nutcutlet

Talkback: Hostas, slugs and snails

as they appear and have found this keeps damage to a minimum. Physical barriers, whether copper or gel are fine on pots and containers, but the only thing I found to be really effective in the borders are nematodes. They are non-chemical and really solved my by N Freeland.Somerset

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28/11/2011 18:31:24

by brian jeffs

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