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Home-made compost

On 14/07/2012 in forum

will need either gas or parafin and both give problems with humidity. Curtain one end of the greenhouse with bubble wrap and put shelving in for your seeds and plants it will not be cheap to heat that one small section but trying to keep the heat in a full


Beans not germinating/being eaten

On 17/07/2012 in forum

kitchen tissue, wrap them in it & place in plastic bag on windowsill.  Have others tried this, any tips?  Have not done this for a while-but damp kitchen roll on the bottom of an old ice cream tub or something similar-lid on -somewhere warm-don't let


holiday watering in greenhouse

On 04/07/2012 in forum

making barrel, and three pair of my mums tights. The tights had one leg in the water with other end wrapped around tomato plant. All my friendly neighbour had to do was come in and top up the barrel with water and tomato feed. Best tomatoes we had. My


Gardening newbie with loads of questions

On 30/05/2012 in forum

with cable buried in sand and a thermostat. Above that there are shelves at various heights to take the plants not needing the full warmth, heat rises so they get a nice snug warmth around them. A curtain of bubble wrap round the warm box keeps the seeds


wasps nest

On 10/08/2012 in forum

and, even though we tried to move it in the night and were well wrapped up (OH even had motorbike helmet on!) I got two stings and he got 4 (I thought it was 40 the fuss he made!!). Admittedly we were only trying to move it not spray it but they were


Aldi plants

On 12/02/2013 in forum

bought plants.  Blairs, I bought a standard lavendar as a gift for a friend about 10 years ago, for many years it was in a pot, then 2 years ago planted in the ground; still going strong. I have 2 olives, keep them in unheated GH wrapped in fleece


what can I put in compost

On 20/02/2013 in forum

) contains long tough fibres and these tend to get wrapped around spinning parts, so I try to avoid putting in stuff like that  (I chop it in to small bits with secateurs instead.) We have this shredder http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001123CCO


TIPS ........

On 24/03/2013 in forum

.bbc.co.uk/gardenersworld/video/alys_thrifty/lightbox.shtml   thank you figrat Lyn wrote (see) My daughter used to have terrible trouble with neighbours cats invading her garden, she has put 6inch nails in the top of the fence and strung two rows of fishing line really tight across and wrapping it round the nails


Help, are these plants ok for my small wildlife pond?

On 06/05/2013 in forum

be something you may need to add as well. You can buy it in ready made sheets for a small pond like yours or add a handful or two of fresh straw wrapped in an old pop sock, onion bag etc. I can't remember the amounts needed, he did explain. Might be worth


Plants should be grown, not ripped out of forrest's.

On 20/05/2013 in forum

British or north European climate. You'd spend 50 weeks of the year unable to use the expensive outside sitting rooms and dining rooms and cooking facilities and the swimming pool they're wrapped around.   They're not exactly filled with plantsmanship


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