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facing upwards to stop oil or dirt pouring into it. Wipe the underside of your mower with a damp cloth to prevent grass build-up and to stop it rusting.Don't forget the mower's cuttings bag - a little care will keep it in good condition. Brush or wash off

us to another problem. There are certain things that don't agree with either compost heaps or shredders. Diseased plant material shouldn't be composted, as the process might not kill the spores of, for example, potato blight or rust. Rose clippings

found that any left in ground until autumn begins to sprout over again. Also should not be allowed to flower Hi there, I had a terrible rust problem this year for the biggest garic crop I have ever grown (we love it). SOme of the bulbs were small

,benefit from having pebbles,stones placed on top of the soil to help prevent blackspot and rust does work exceedingly well against these deseases,any falling infected leaves cannot reach the soil top then,try it! I found this article very interesting as I,m new

if they were continuing their crawling forays.  But - there are some small rust marks on some of the leaves and a some torn holes of irregular (not round) shape - so it may be that they did some work and disappeared off when the showers really hit.  Slugs

for water and nutrients, and water regularly if the weather is dry, to prevent plants running to seedKeep an eye out for leek rust - bright orange, raised pustules on the outer leaves. This can do a lot of damage in wet years. Avoid watering the leaves

haircut, with a nice head of green variegated leaves. In the middle of the summer an aquilega was covered in a rust/fungus and it looked so bad that I thought the plant was beyond rescuing. I cut back all the stems to the roots to remove the diseased plant

pink types) from T & M at the same time and they sent the Asiatic ones (yellows/whites/reds) instead which were full of lily rust.  Just goes to show their buyers don't have any idea what their buying.  Horse burger anyone?

it to shape, a bit like these green plastic coated things you get from the GC where the plant is supported by a half-circle at whatever height you want to suit the plant. The difference is the steel is a mellow colour that surface-rusts towards dull brown, it

.  The glass is held in with putty and metal sprigs (like little tacks).  The putty can deteriorate and the sprigs can rust and fail, but over 14 years I've only had to sort slipping panes about 4 times, and that's with 22 foot long house.  Mine is built by a 2