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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

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

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

    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

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

. 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.

, 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

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

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

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