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Talkback: How to make a hedgehog house

been wasps ! As these much maligned creatures are more beneficial to the gardening than some ungrateful birds, they are now most welcome ! I am gunna re-site the boxes this January, and hope a hoopoe might lose it's way and reside temporarily ! The ONLY by jackienichols

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22/03/2012 13:15:56

by bevrat

Talkback: Foraging

- just take a little bit here and there, leaving the rest for others and the wildlife. Kate I live in country side but how do you know what okay to pick and what's not? Take care when foraging you don't disturb wasp nests. My dog did the other morning by Richard Jones

28/11/2011 18:41:05

by watsonlwats

Talkback: The insects have gone berserk

!http://higgysgardenproject.blogspot.com/ I have had lots of ladybirds i put a bug box up last year, around Feb and March this year i saw some of them sunbathing and they had Seven spots i was pleased to see. Unfortunately i found a wasps nest in a bag of compost near the House so i have had by Murray Fortescue

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28/11/2011 18:43:31

by tarasgarden

Talkback: Cherries, plums and gages

. Bristol seems to suit stone fruits well as we have lots of wild cherries and plums around in the hedgerows. And they seem to be ready to eat before the wasps discover them. No trouble with deer or rabbits though. You will have to pick every morning early by Hazel

28/11/2011 18:44:01

by js36805

Talkback: Choosing apple tree varieties

boxes to freeze, then put them into bags and re-use the box. my apple tree has started producing blossom again - planted 1 yr ago ??? During this time you will probally see what looks like a hornet wandering around your indoors. It is a Queen wasp by Trey

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28/11/2011 18:44:15

by Rosetta

Talkback: Autumn heatwave

to the official calendar......there is a constant stream of queen wasps coming into our house (nasty sting from one last week when I picked up an airing shirt it had decided to hibernate in!), window frames full of ladybirds and cluster flies. So what does lie by Anonymous

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28/11/2011 18:44:16

by Denise Smith

Talkback: Emptying the compost bin

in spring.@Margaret5 and @fieldfest - my mum once had a rat in her compost and made me evict it, on Boxing Day! She said it was my fault as I made her garden more wildlife friendly but all she got was rats and wasps. Still, it was the only rat I've seen in a by oldchippy

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08/06/2012 14:06:52

by peteballan

The Buzzing bush!

realise that laurels are immensely important to wildlife, I call my mature one the local supermarket because from early spring onwards its alive with wasps, bees and other buzzing creatures, let alone the birds that nest. I think only my Ivy does more by Moonlit Hare

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06/06/2012 20:16:01

by Wintersong

Talkback: Controlling slugs and snails with copper

in the soil like slugs, they don't seem to be affected by the nematodes. Hi i've a problem with wasps - have just found quite a few wasps entering an old tree stump that is underground next to the raised veg patch. HELP! Do we panic and try to get rid by glenysbright

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02/07/2012 11:33:04

by Bookertoo

Talkback: Growing veg in containers - garden pests

been to the top steep section of my garden, which I left to go wild. To my great delight found I have a toad, small one, hoping for more, plus bumblebee nest, also a nest of small looking wasps, that have made holes in my cranesbill's leaves, I want by Jane

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28/11/2011 18:43:46

by tillymint21

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