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I've just moved mine, with other seedlings onto the black membrane I have over on the veg patch, some of the trays had some giant snails hiding underneath, nothing tender is g oing to survive this year if we cant at least get one dry week.

Which roses are they @Megan Cartwright, do you have names? Roses are very hungry plants. Did you beef up the soil before planting with addition of farmyard manure and/or organic matter? They also require a bit of time and room to establish and there looks to be a bit of competition for...

When ordering chicken, just be careful not to say something like 'quiero un polla grande por favor'.The problem is that pollo is chicken, but nouns ending in o are usually masculine, with their feminine counterparts ending a. But that's not always true. And asking for a polla grande might...

Yes, could be either Group 1, or Group 2.

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Thanks goodness, our company was so smart to introduce WFH in 2015 and to save us lots of travelling (just remember the environmental impact, the M4 is empty since Covid, so we are not the only ones) for something that can be done from home, and prefers to save £1,5 million rental cost a year,...

I've noticed that when I've bought "10mm" pea gravel, quite a lot of it has been bigger than that, but it probably varies a bit between suppliers. Best advice is probably to have a look at it before parting with your dosh. These days horticultural grit seems to be £6 for 20kg which I don't think...

This is growing in a really inhospitable hot dry spot so I'd really like it to be a keeper. I'm not particularly particular but I suspect it's going to be one of those tall jobs with a few yellow flowers on top

Here's one of mine that survived the winter (there are another two). I took down the basket that it was in and put it in the pot with fresh compost last weekend, and it's already producing flowers. And I have some cuttings taken maybe 6 or 8 weeks ago, ready to go into baskets.Once again I...

My apologgies @Butterfly6 for not making things clear. As a ZSL pensioner, I receive a number of complimentary tickets each year. I can't make use of them myself so I offer them to others . If you/your daughter would like any, I will just need your name and postal address to send them.