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Talkback: Worm composting all year round
) that my chickens turn their noses up to. If the chickens leave any food at the end of the day, the worms get the food. I fill the top layer with scrunched up newspaper and cover my wormery in bubble wrap over winter. I've never heard of a snailery before by John
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28/11/2011 18:44:20
by Jo G
Talkback: Tomatoes, aubergines and peppers
to know without more information. i put netting well actually its the green stuff builders wrap round scaffolding to stop stuff dropping off it works and i put pellets down for slugs plenty of washing up water is retained for putting on my plants and does by southwickman
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11/05/2012 14:09:28
by Excitable Boy
is it safe to put seedlings into window boxes yet?
on the way, have some fleece or bubble wrap ready to throw over them at nights until this cold weather is over. I'm in the same boat, Grai.  Last year I left everything too late and this year I think I started too early so I have plants that have been potted by grai
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20/04/2012 11:57:47
by Crazycatlady
How to grow Agapanthus with zero effort-do nothing !
heads all out. All of mine are grown in pots & overwintered in either the cold, very, greenhouse or a coldframe. All the pots are well wrapped up, & covered with a couple of layers of fleece. The evergreen ones do lose the odd leaf, which get removed by sotongeoff
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31/07/2012 18:44:51
by jo4eyes
What is eating my cooking apple tree?
too big for rabbits - but what you need to do is get yourself some chicken wire and wrap it around the tree trunk. I think it's an animal, and the wire should stop it chewing before it does any more damage. At the moment, the missing bark and hole by Nicole2
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21/06/2012 23:03:41
by BobTheGardener
baffled by strawbs and a mystery plant
corrected but they do eat dead and decaying wood as well. Be careful where you source your straw for your berries.  I had some trees delivered a few years ago, well wrapped in nice dry straw.  So I used it - on the grounds of waste not want not - and grew by Mizz
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10/07/2012 11:03:21
by Tina5
Home-made compost
will need either gas or parafin and both give problems with humidity. Curtain one end of the greenhouse with bubble wrap and put shelving in for your seeds and plants it will not be cheap to heat that one small section but trying to keep the heat in a full by Pamela Croft
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14/07/2012 23:38:26
by Palaisglide
Beans not germinating/being eaten
kitchen tissue, wrap them in it & place in plastic bag on windowsill.  Have others tried this, any tips?  Have not done this for a while-but damp kitchen roll on the bottom of an old ice cream tub or something similar-lid on -somewhere warm-don't let by Lokelani
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17/07/2012 06:06:05
by muddy mare
holiday watering in greenhouse
making barrel, and three pair of my mums tights. The tights had one leg in the water with other end wrapped around tomato plant. All my friendly neighbour had to do was come in and top up the barrel with water and tomato feed. Best tomatoes we had. My by Lindylou3
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04/07/2012 22:21:10
by dig and turn
Gardening newbie with loads of questions
with cable buried in sand and a thermostat. Above that there are shelves at various heights to take the plants not needing the full warmth, heat rises so they get a nice snug warmth around them. A curtain of bubble wrap round the warm box keeps the seeds by Tina_i_am
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30/05/2012 18:54:12
by Tina_i_am