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on the grass.If anyone could offer any advice Iwould be very grateful thank you I don't mind that a fox gets into our back garden but it deposits it a present so you can imagine when we are on holiday it is not a very nice picture to see the lawn in a mess

to abolish the conventional grass lawn in my front garden and probably will in the back area too, so I am using a leaf mulch as an easy way of doing this and letting the worms do the donkey work for me. I intend to have an area of camomile lawn with plants

is situated right next to woods with monster oak trees that are hundreds of years old,i have to regularly this time of year and on a daily basis clear away oak leaves that fall onto my lawn,if i dont the leaves ruin my lawn....im not to bothered about

down with holes in, and I try to grow plants that don't need a lot of water. I don't use the hosepipe too often and I never waste water watering the lawn to try and keep it green because how ever brown it gets it always comes back green in the end. I

Picture this 50's ex-council house in tiny rural village. Majority of garden at the front of house. Stood on road looking at my house the drive is Tarmac type and runs full length to the house on the left. The right is all lawn. One circular flower

are being "slabbed" /paved.  Where is all the water supposed to go?  and doesn't this coontribute to the flooding in recent years? I love to see a bit of grass which personally I think enhances the plants.  Our grassed areas are not the perfect lawns - my

all the weeds would it kill the grass???if so whats the best method to rid the weeds from my lawn...thank you. Rats only there for food. Get rid of the food. Birds can survive without scraps this time of year. When I returned from holiday, found my

. I took plants with me when my husband and I moved to Spain and they self seeded prolifically around our plot in the mountains and looked great growing alongside the wild flowers and grasses. My Spanish neighbours loved them too. We returned to the UK

, as you say, there are lots to come. The oak trees have not started yet. Well, in my front garden (North Derbyshire) I have 3 daffodils in flower! Is this a record? I enjoy picking up the leaves in my garden. I don,t rake much as i get grass and other

heat.In goes all vegetable waste from the house, plus teabags, eggshells (broken up), old growbags, lawn clippings, ash from the fire and brown paper and loo roll tubes. I also occasionally mix in a bag or two of horse manure. I rotate them around