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More seed sowing

On 01/05/2009 in Allotments

can spring up and choke them.I'm really thorough about preparing the bed before sowing, raking the soil to a fine tilth and drawing a drill with my hoe. It's not that straight admittedly as I can't find my line, but that's the trouble with tidying your


Sycamore invasion

On 15/04/2013 in forum

and look quite nice....I guess! Seeds from our two beautiful big ash trees blow and take root everywhere, but I just hoe them out - I'd rather have the trees and have to cope with the seedlings than not have the trees - our fingers are crossed that they don


Cornus refusing to grow

On 09/06/2013 in forum

the hard pruning either although cornus like moisture I would hold fire with watering.  scatter some fertiliser and lightly hoe it in.  mine was disappointing and I dug it up.  a friend has one and it does reasonably well.  if I was to make a guess Id say


Weed or Not? Photo's here

On 15/06/2013 in forum

    full size image is http://s4.gardenersworld.com/uploads/images/original/25585.jpg   definitely a weed That's a weed, wild mustard or something.  I think it's charlock (a wild mustard).  I've hoed many a plant out when hand-hoeing in the sugar beet


Wheely quite interesting

On 11/09/2007 in Gardeners' musings

knives, the hoe, the brick, trousers, the egg or the polka dot bikini.Sure it has got a great deal lighter (I used to own an old wooden one like this and you would not want to push it very far) but it is intrinsically the same.In the 1970s James Dyson


Seed potatoes and mice

On 06/03/2008 in Unassigned

. As anyone who has tried to earth up potatoes with a trowel instead of a rake or draw hoe, or harvest them with a spade rather than a fork, will surely agree.


Talkback: Gardening tools

On 28/11/2011 in forum

, where Monty used the double headed rake, but he called it a "Hand Hoe".I doubled checked what he said by rewinding (Sky+) and put the sub titles on.Never-the-less, not had any luck finding one.I've emailed the BBC in the hope of some help... Came across


Plants being eaten!

On 18/03/2012 in forum

are still active.you can also clear up any debris to stop them sheltering eg leaves,boards,old stones.plastic.  light fork or hoe you soil on a regular basis so birds can get at slug eggs.  have you got wild rabbits in your aera they cleared out some shrubs


Rust on Roses

On 03/08/2012 in forum

clearing up any mess on the ground and hoe a lot so that as little as possible breeds in the surrounding soil.  Maybe some of the good people on this forum have some good advice or tricks to apply to the rust issue. Thanks Yarrow2 I buy a GW mag tomorrow


Lifting and dividing

On 11/03/2009 in Gardeners' musings

girding of loins and a flourishing of hoes.Casting an eye over my borders recently, I noticed that some of my plants were badly in need of splitting. In particular need of attention was a fine grass called Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster', which


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