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last year my clematis alpina 'Frankie' was covered in brown scale insects all up the stems.  I sprayed them with Provado, but how doo you know when they are dead??  They look dead anyway and they haven't dropped off.  Now that its the right time

I planted some carrots in a planter down the side of my house. Ive raised the planter off the ground slightly using an off cut of wooden edging roll, to allow drainage, but im really worried about them with all this rain. Ive just asked my husband

into the holes then covering and leaving for a long time, I have a stump four years old and only now is it breaking up.Second you do not want to be contaminating the ground where you will plant new plants and all those things will do that.It depends on how old

sure that you cover any wanted  plants, and then spray thoroughly with a glyphosate-base weedkiller. The ground elder will appear to grow better than ever for a few days, but then start to look sickly. You will probably have to apply the weedkiller

Would mulch or some kind of covering eradicate ivy? We have a well established section that covers the whole bed & the roots are impossible to remove! Use a glyphosate spray or gel-like Roundup-but you might have to repeat the treatment a couple

cotton wool like substance - like candy floss. i raked the ground first and then re-seeded ground and covered with light covering of sand and soil. how can i tell if it is effective? will it effect new seed? should i buy some more in case? it had

perrenials and ground cover if possible to fill a fairly large gap. Any suggestions please? periwinkle   seems to grow anywhere   but can get a bit out of control if not carfull  Have got periwinkle in other shady areas - would like something different

, and are tough. Vincas provide strong ground cover. Ornamental grasses like carex and festuca might be good. The RHS website  has a garden planner where you can feed in information about your needs and get a list of plants. Just type rhs,org,uk/plant selector

in mucus, and is about 1cm wide by 6cm long, although when extended it can be up to 30cm long. It lives on earthworms, covering them in digestive juices to dissolve them before sucking them up. The larvae of ground beetles prey on flatworms. Researchers

  vegetablebeds. Also the area beneath it is pretty covered in creeping buttercup, which I'm struggling to get rid off. So what can I plant to replace the broom? And what about ground cover to help with the weeds? PS. I am trying to follow my predecessors chemical