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different surfaces and keep the layout/materials simple and few to create a cohesive look. Hi there Ema, and thanks for your suggestions. With regards to the border, what do you think would be the narrowest width for a successful border? I am willing to make

will lose out..any ideas people to move them away safely... I have dormice, Kate. They make holes in the hazelnuts which are really plentiful this year. Poppy, your female rat and her offspring will soon have more. Make sure your building is rat proof

/Wiltshire border. I think they look pretty in the lawn, but I know if it doesn't rain this weekend, my husband will be out there digging them all up and making his straight lines as he cuts the grass. I wonder why it's only men who have to mow in straight lines

success and would like some kind of flowering plant. Any suggestions? thanks My garden is managed with wildlife as a helper/fellow user, at all times. Nature perfected composting long before we arrived and so I feel that it is best to leave plant debris

built up area. I have had them in my plastic compost bin and the solution has been to put the bin on paving slabs, we have left a tiny gap between the slabs for worms and it has been very successful for a number of years. I'm afraid we have had

have large gardens and lots of fishponds netted over to keep out marauding herons. Some of the frogs struggle and survive minus a leg but others I never see again. One og my compost bins is a nursery for slow worms. They are so very beautiful

to be consumed thus exacerbating the problem by allowing the cabbage white populations to increase. The same goes for potato blight if people just leave the haulms to propagate spores. Gardeners should look after their crops or compost them? We love to see

, in neighbouring gardens, in the street, local parks and yards. The basic premise is that the mice and rats, as scavengers, are taking what's left by other animals. If they are making a nuisance, it is because there is too much left, meaning that the birds

be the best veg to plant now? I have allocated a part of my garden to put in some raised beds. My question is do I need to remove the turf before putting the compost in to make the raised beds? Also would you suggest any particular veg to start off with, I am

until spring. Alternatively, you could use your spare piece of liner to make a bog garden. Dig a suitable area to one spade depth, line the hole with the liner and return the soil. It will hold any rainwater and you can grow boggy plants... We too have