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So you use mushroom compost as a mulch? I have never heard of it and wouldn’t have a clue where to get it from.Saying that if you have a coffee roasters near you, the by product makes a excellent mulch.

I have one, it's lovely. However... I have a very dry garden, and it did not thrive for its first four or five years. It was alive, but struggling. Then we had a wet, grey summer in 2021, it really got its feet in and has looked great and coped with droughts and heatwaves since.

I would advise against slug pellets to protect a plant in a pot.Slugs can't swim, so if you get a larger pot saucer, full it with water, and put the pot on a block or stone in the middle of it, your plant will be fine. (Make sure that the plant leaves are not touching anything beyond the...

Definitely not for me. Dreadful thought.

I started my tomatoes today in the afternoon sunshine with a nice cup of coffee, listening to Rachel Ziegler singing ‘Don’t Cry Me Argentina’, I think I sowed Mamalade, Roma and Red Cherry.What could be better!

Drinks with extra sugar and caffeine can give a temporary false sense of energy but they aren’t good for you. Caffeine can be dehydrating and make your heart race too.Keeping hydrated, taking multivitamins and having a diet of fresh and whole foods would seem to be a better approach. Of course...

PETA are more PITA in my opinion. When they come out with the carp they spout most of the time they seem unhinged.

Indeed, but I'm referring to the curves of the bank in my garden which are tighter and over a much shorter distance

It’s supposed to blacken the moss within 24 hours. You won’t lose much of a window of opportunity.

It keeps the passing ne’er do wells out of our rather isolated garden.

Weeds germinate and grow in spring, then flower and set seed in late summer, with the seeds generally remaining dormant in the soil until the following year. This is why I would try to remove them now rather than later. You can spot treat them as suggested in my earlier post, reseed the...