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your robins on my xmas cards as the bloody sparrowhawk would have seen to that.hopefully a good hard winter, plenty of freeze ups & we might thin out a few sparrowhawks. here's to wishfull thinking. Just found this site, while trying to look up facts

in Bendigo pom i have just started growing tomatoes -i have had them indoors for a month i have now put them in the greenhouse --they are now very tall, thin with not many leaves on - can i cut the top part of the plant off for them to grow more sturdier

and how plany plants per pot. They are contained seeds? ThanksLisa Just one other question..... I sowed my cut and come again lettuce in a row in a long trough. Do I need to thin it out now its come through the soil or do I leave it.thanks Lisa I have

and robbing the larvae and honey. I've set up several jam jar traps to thin them out again this year - oddly enough the traps kill plenty of wasps, but only the odd bee. Bees must be a bit quicker on the uptake! Wasps don't just eat 'meat' they are cannibals

, not cemented in - so that I can move them if I want.  I tip a thin layer of sharp sand over them and then just sweep it into a rubbish bag when things get messy.  It's quick and easy - and a pile of sharp sand around also stops seeds germinating

primary school helping with advice...the children are so interested and eager to learn. Myself, I had had a wonderful introduction into gardening with my dad being an excellent gardener and my granddad being a head gardener for a large estate. I could thin

to clematis and daffodil bulbs?)  I raided the greenhouse for thin green plant support sticks and planted them in the trough, fairly close together, so far so clean. If it works, it seems like a cheap and cheerful solution. We suffer from the cat that lives 9

parsnip seeds and cover with mix.  Once germinated remove weakest seedling.  For carrots make a V drill about 15cms deep, fill with similar mix as for parsnips, water, plant seeds such as "FLYAWAY", cover and thin as usual.  I have also had success

intro to the forum making this explicit to all users, and suggest also that concise headers are handier than "expanded-explanatory-narrative" ones. Thanks for asking and responding to users' feedback! I think this site is the best thin since sliced bread

investment.  Just throw it loosely over the plants overnight, and that is usually sufficient to give the extra bit of protection.  (If you don't have fleece, then think laterally - I have used long-past-their-best sheets that are thin - mother would have had