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pollinating insects have doen their job!We're just off to find some old stockings to support them with! The melons in my greenhouse are also like triffids with only one female flower produced and no melons. If I were to grow melons outside would they need

hunting for insects in the surrounding cover. spent many hours watching them !! hi, we just moved house where there is a small pond. My son suddenly shouted out there is huge tadpoles with long legs. Thinking this just a slight!! exageration i went

and feed them to the birds. Although I generally leave all other insects unharmed, i have no qualms about squashing the beetles, (CRUNCHING in closer to the effect than "squishing", and I find it a very satisfying revenge for all the lost plants. show

pretty flowers... Oh, and I love lilies but , since the lily beetle reached Bristol ,I now grow them in the conservatory  where they have not been able to suss them out. The lily beetle must be the filthiest insect alive. From our own guide to dealing

're hard to kill! Have you onsidered a mixed hedge of nativeshrubs and trees to benefit the wildife - birds, bees,butterflies and insects of all sorts, Steve?  If you go to the Jordans Cereals site and go backa few pages youwill find they have just planted

to just have a play with a couple of the beds, and simply mixed all the seeds up that I had left over from packets, and scattered them at weekly intervals over different sections of bed. Attack from insect and pigeons appeared to be less, and it lead to a

the slope is steepest they created terraces to have flat beds of plants that like good drainage. There is colour all year from blooms, bark and foliage, quite a lot of perfume and the place is humming with insects and birds. They are in the Open Gardens

their eggs in your pond. Insects like sun and warmth I don't think you should worry too much about leaves. Leaves blow around, so even if you put the pond to one side, leaves will still collect in it. But you do need to be aware of how far the tree roots

to this gardening larkButs its crept inside my heartWhen in my garden I feel my arteries un hardenBut please beg my pardon if I get things wrongAs I listen to birdsong and insects to and throwShhhh be quiet you can almost hear things growAs the breeze hits my face I

 for insects to drink from, easily controlled if you remove flowerheads. I've done my best but now have it all over, even in lawn. Daftest thing by me...so many but the most recent was having given a foliar feed to ordinary pot plants who were looking a bit