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Many supermarket tomatoes are created for them by breeders and are F1 Hybrids. Seed from any F1 tomatoes will not come true to type but will have characteristics of the parents - which can be good or bad. Seed saved from Heirloom varieties will come true.

My father ( RAF ) was also stationed in Palestine during Israel's creation as a state. I was never able to get him to tell of his experiences just as he refused to talk about his time as a crew member of the Lancaster bombers over Germany during WW2. I also worked for several Jewish companies...

I see your point - it looks as if the ivy on the ground is of the PITA variety. As already mentioned, you could start at one end and try pulling each leader as far as possible until you come to it's main root and then dig that out. If the ivy on the fence is disturbing your neighbour, you...

They also don't like water, you can try and flood them out but you only move them on to some other place, some times if the fox is near by he/she may go for the rat but if fox is well fead he/she won't go for ratty, or some one with a jack russell

My OH uses the MO Bacter granules and they are very good. He recommended them to someone who bought the instant product by mistake. By all accounts it was quite smelly, a faff to apply and not as good. OH couldn't understand why this would be until he realised the wrong product had been...

I think I'll just do my usual and mix jacks magic with ji no3 and sharp sand.It works ok but was hoping for a cheaper option.I bought a bag or two of some unknown stuff a couple of years ago and nothing grew in it, god knows what it was contaminated with.

I remove the spray gun after every use and keep it inside. The hose itself is fastened on the sheltered back wall of the house.

It looks like it. Lift up the pots and carefully look around the base and under the rim for slugs and snails. You can use slug pellets. These are now based on ferrous sulphate and don't harm birds, hedgehogs etc.

Sorry, I wasn't clear.I meant why not wait until autumn to remove the moss and reseed, rather than spring/summer when the risk of weeds establishing is more likely.

Unfortunately I don't have any other materials in the garden to use, and there is quite a large area to cover so I fear putting in a drystone wall would be beyond my level of skill.

I understand where you're coming from, but there is already a symmetry in this area (either side of steps) so it is an issue

That looks very similar to the one my brother has. We had colder than -5c here this year and it suggests burgandy spires can only take a lite frost, so perhaps similar cultivars are the same.

From the new picture I agree that the stems and bud do look like an ash. Looking at the old picture again where I thought it had lobed leaves, I believe that might be your neighbours tree. I took the green to be one tree and not two and I could only see leaf detail on one half.

A lovely cluster of Pagoda Red ...