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Talkback: Identifying bumblebees

open? Last year I had many black, grey and white miner bees in my vegetable plot. I had never seen them before and was fascinated. I LOVE BEES. Last Year i drilled a whole load of 15mm & 20mm holes in two 1 meter lenghs of timber fence post. Even though by kparry

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26/04/2012 15:11:30

by Wintersong

Talkback: How to make compost

to add my kitchen waste and ensured I had layers of cardboard but after several months the compost is no better. I put in grass cuttings, vegetable peelings, gone off fruit, tea bags, coffee grounds and egg shells as well as the cardboard. Any advice by jazcaz

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22/04/2012 18:02:00

by marshmello

Talkback: Couch grass

great solution! thanks I remember watching the programme and seeing an alternative to furniture oil but can't remember whether it was vegetable/sunflower/olive oil. I have just bought some wooden furniture so would like to start the way I mean by flowerbum

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14/04/2012 13:48:32

by estherp

Talkback: Growing broad beans

students are very pleased that they have something growing in their new vegetable bed. The frost & snow beat them down a bit, but we've tied them to their wig-wam now, so they are fine.Hope yours are going to be OK. Broad Beans usually do well if planted by mizzzy

28/11/2011 18:31:13

by jane maxwell

Slug invasion

', but that wouldn't work on my allotment as it has to be done frequently. I've considered nematodes but have baulked at the cost of treating my plots. I have resorted to usuing slug pellets, which I apply under the nets to keep birds of fruit and brassicas by Campbell McKee

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22/01/2012 16:38:26

by Old gardener

Help me identify shoots please

and they aren't very reliable. Why don't you buy a good book, with photos, about vegetable growing? I'll do that .. it's a bit spur of the moment and started with my mum and daughter, gardening centre, pack of seeds - It looks dead easy if you just read by Alan Howard

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16/05/2013 20:23:14

by Verdun

Talkback: The no-dig method

and others say it is necesarry to avoid creating a hard pan in the soil.Each situation is different depending on the history of your plot. I try not to dig my soil and simply mulch in the Autumn with well rotted compost or well rotted manure then cover by Baloo66

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09/01/2012 20:01:42

by peteballan

Talkback: Growing tomatoes: dos and don'ts

plot, the ones outside got blight and then it was transferred into the greenhouse (probably by me), I lost about 30 plants. So last year after thoroughly disinfecting the greenhouse I only grew them inside in grow bags-12 plants of assorted varieties by growing tomatoes

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28/11/2011 18:40:31

by John from London

Talkback: Growing veg in containers

would like to know if old tres are a good thing to grow veg in.?? I have only 2 small vegetable plots in my garden [for broad beans, runner beans, courgettes,squash and marrow] so grow lots of things in containers. One of my water barrels split in all by chutneyhunter

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28/11/2011 18:43:25

by Pizza Delivery Bags

Talkback: Slugs, rain and nematodes

infestation. I have applied nematodes to my garden but do not think it has worked. I have beds as well as a vegetable plot and its just being annihilated. The pots also, they have eaten my dahlias, marigolds, lavender everything. Please help me? Dear by Mary

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28/11/2011 18:31:54

by jo

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