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just wrap their wormeries with insulation, such as bubble polythene, to keep out the cold.I've always added small quantities of newspaper to my worm bins, usually by wrapping peelings in a few pages before adding them to the bin. However, cardboard egg

the greenhouse by insulating it with bubble wrap, although I have had my unheated greenhouse for 10 years and find it more than adequate for most things. I am far to lazy to use bubble wrap Thanks. Think I will move the nictiana into garage but very limited space

gets a thick layer of farmyard manure to keep it warm. I have done this for the last 8 yrs now and have some really huge specimens to show for it. Thanks Paul. Insulating tender plants can keep the cold away, and a thick layer of farmyard manure

the builder if he could get me a roll of insulation I put it at the back of my cheep plastic Argos 6x4 greenhouse anyway as i unfurled the insulation above I found several tiny slugs in it ,they all got the chop     Chop in half with secteurs.  Simples. i

out, and never need to do much cleaning up after turning, covered with a carpet, great compost, happy days try putting flattened cardboard boxes in between the two sides of the pallets.  insulates the heap and keeps stuff from falling out.  no problems

around the top of the cone. Thread generous lengths of wire through and twist to secure. Form a hook with the other ends.Before planting up the cone, line it with a layer of bubble wrap. This will act as insulation to stop plant roots baking if you hang

, letting plants use up moisture until the compost has dried up and they die down. Then I leave the dormant tubers in their dry compost over winter, which I hope insulates them from cold.Memo to myself: Remember to start the gloriosa tubers into growth

the densely populated 12eme arrondissement?Something occurs to me. Are the houses of south-east London no longer attractive for nesting in the eaves? What with roof insulation and loft conversions, perhaps the birds are being edged out? Ironically, the five

degrees of frosty weather in between. I like to think a deep carpet of snow, although clearly at zero degrees or less, is actually insulating plants below from even colder air temperatures above. Hopefully no harm will come to the perennials and bulbs

, where birds such as sparrows can hunt for caterpillars and garden pests. A clean bird bath provides them with water to drink and clean their feathers (which enables them to insulate themselves against the cold).There’s nothing like that in my garden