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25mm x 35mmTo make a box around your carrot bed: hammer and nails, staplerMay - July Water carrot seedlings well before thinning. This will allow you to pull them out without breaking the roots, the smell of which attracts carrot root fly. Simply grip

Hi All, First time to the forums. I'm just getting into gardening. I'm trying to find some long pots/planters that I could have indoors on my windowsill to take advantage of the warm growing space (not quite got the greenhouse sorted yet. Any

to encourage the bee population to expand into their garden? Hi benchy I was thinking of making a few bee and bug boxes, your looks great good to keep it out of the way as well - nice to know bee use them, we definitely need bee in our world for flowers

of the day. Sarcococca hookeriana (Christmas Box) also do well in shaded areas - they're slow growers and are highly scented ground covering plants  Helleborous Niger (christmas rose) is a rather easy to grow, shade loving plant.. Lamium will do well in shade

on the underside of leaves. Destroy plants if you find it.Advice on growing and harvesting herbsWatch Carol Klein planting herbs in a window box in her video guideGrowing peppermint and thyme in a container, with Monty Don at BerryfieldsTips on picking herbs

pickings through the hungry gap AND set seed. I saved and sowed this seed this year - as I also grew the nero di toscano last year I wonder if the babies will be hybrids? I was also inspired to grow Nero di Toscana this year by my veg box supplier and I

Hi everyone, My god-daughter bought me two hyacinth bulbs at christmas, with hyacinth vases, for growing in water.  I followed the instructions in the boxes (to leave them in darkness for six weeks, which was mid-Feb, and to then bring them out when

heap. You can also buy a box of live bumblebees for the home garden now called a Beepol box. To suggest using Japanese knotweed for bee hotels is very risky and ill advised. Cutting knotweed canes in the summer while they're still growing is likely

Raised beds are ideal for vegetable growing - maintenance is easier, as you don't need to dig, and the soil doesn't get walked on and compacted.A robust raised bed can be constructed from interlocking scaffolding boards, which look attractive

I had one small success with cuttings this year. 5 out of 7 box cuttings have rooted. Have I left it too late to take some from my variegated box or any other evergreen? If so whats the technique and the looking after regime? Also I bought a fuchsia