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Unlocking the power of plants A herb garden is not only a place of beauty, it's also a medicine chest, holding remedies to many ailments. Discover the healing properties of the herbs in your garden.Find out how to... grow garlicUntil the 17th

with oiled wool sea-boot socks.  Nice and cozy! if all else fails and you dont have any chance of them fitting you use them for plants i have my sons pair that are too small and im planning on putting his favourite flowers in them get him to help me although

shiny evergreen leaves which have a scent which I'd describe as a cross between bay leaves and caramel (just my opinion).  It has fluffy white flowers, followed by blue-black edible berries. The oil from the leaves is supposed to be good for sinus

-fashioned technique, but it's a brilliant way to rapidly reduce the temperature in a greenhouse or coldframe. It also increases humidity levels, which helps to reduce the risk of red spider mite.But what I want to know is, if I had used some of the plant oil-based bug

want to plant something else there. Marigold, the answer is unless you have or can get hold of a stump grinder it will have to stay. The other way of digging it out would need a team of men and having had to pull them out with a bulldozer and a winch

in the burrows. Apparently they don’t much like alliums, crown imperials or castor oil plants (Ricinus communis).I also once successfully used electronic sonic repellers (they emit a buzzing sound that drives them away) to keep moles off a cabinet minister

Where does the old season end and the new one begin? For allotmenteers it can feel like something of a continuum - these days you can buy excellent plug plants of winter lettuce and oriental greens that will take you right through winter, if you

the surface. Also unpopular are those with pungent-smelling foliage, such as lavender. The fragrance is contained in vessels that fracture when touched to release essential oils, which, for slugs, must be like gargling perfume.We've found the following plants

I have just returned from a very jolly trip to South East Asia. (Not that you would have noticed I was away: gardenersworld.com is such a slick and well-oiled operation that my blogs kept appearing, in my absence, as if by magic.) Mostly I

the pH in huge quantities. We mix it with grass cuttings and cardboard layers in the compost when it is cool. He also warned us not to burn treated woods as the fumes carry oils that line the flue and the smoke is laden with chemicals. The household