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On Christmas day we went for our normal beach walk. I normally collect seaweed for the garden but this year it was so stormy, 40mph winds blowing onshore and blasting sand at us, that the seaweed had been washed away by the tide. Instead the beach was littered with cuttlefish bones, higher up...

If plants are doing well with tap water I wouldn't go into extra effort. In the end, our tap water is good enough to drink, and most plants are not that fussy. (There are some special exceptions of course).Chloring is highly volatile so filling the watering can in the evening and watering in...

No, not a shortage this year, probably due to constant use of compost and , especially woodchip derived mulches. In fact several new species beyond the usual range.

How about putting it somewhere that is very visible to them but not constantly in your line of site and planting a few fake vines over the edges of the thing to make it look like they are growing or some of form other camouflage you can think of?

Todays Heinz Beans are nothing like the original. Watching one of the "Inside the Factory" programmes ( always interesting if you could ignore the presenter ) which dealt with the Heinz beans production reminded me how much they had changed. I always have a book to hand when watching TV, mute...

Uprising in Iran. The currency has collapsed, they are running out of water and there is a power emergency.

I have taken cuttings from a Holly with particularly large orange berries. They are very slow to take! I would suggest strip off most of leaves, gritty soil mixture, and use loads of cuttings because I had quite a failure rate. As for sexing them, unless you do like @Adam I suggests, you have...