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, care about disposal etc.. I think the main worry is about inhalation of fumes and contamination of waterways. Non-professionals were obliged to dispose of it from garden sheds etc. years ago.  Very frustrating that no one can take legal action against

Hello all in the potting shed Last year I bought a 200 year old house with an accompanying cottage garden filled with plants which had been (once) lovingly maintained by its elderly owners but recently got a bit neglected.  I have only limited

including huge horse flies it worked better than everything else ,we now keep it in the allotment shed and at home and its not expensive, if you dont get a reaction from it and no one here did it might be worth trying good luckAlan4711 to try an avoid

. Mow the grass. When it's tidied and mown you can see better what you have. Weed and clean the patio, then paint the workshop. Necessary to keep it from rotting. Cuprinol do good paints for sheds etc. Buy a good gardening book. Decide what you want

, slugs and snails inside the compost bins is productive but around the back of the shed is anti productive when they huddling into barnacle colonies to overwinter. I have gotten to know which areas of my garden attract the biggest colonies and which

, a few of the clematis will do there - but it is never going to be the easiest of sites to grow well, espeially in the winter.  Some things grown in pots can be moved there for a while, then put beside the house, shed or hedge to recover.  There

and everything will be fine but now i know its a lot harder, realised now autumn is time to plant too, then its about cold frames? can plastic green house act as one or i do have a brick shed with a window and even a spare bedroom if i need it for plants

in the house under the stairs in onion sacks haggled from a market stall. having grown the onion family on an allotment for several years, i have come to the conclusion that my onions (shallots and garlic too) store best in strings in the garden shed which has

. The weather had other ideas. It rained and rained and suddenly the plot looked like the Somme, complete with duck boards. We had a shed donated from the other end of the site, much fun being stopped by the new owners as we humped the shed away, oops! So come

shredding trees at the side of the road. said our local council charges him to tip them, so was pleased to deliver to the allotments. We have a shed in amongst a (small) orchard. Mowing this area can be a bit of a fiddle, so to minimise the fuss we decided