General Gardening Discussion

YouTube clip of how to set up the Eliminator pressure washer -

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Sorry @NoviceGardener2023 - I should have mentioned the other piece of timber! I knew the troughs would be heavy once filled, and I would never have trusted the trellis to withstand the weight, especially when they were recycled from the original site and were a bit worn out in places. If it's...

I use those cardboard pots for my runner bean seeds. I find they are just tough enough when wet to hold firm. The roots from the beans push through ok and by that time they are ready to plant out. Then I plant the whole pot. The pots soon rot away in the ground. I've been using them for years,...

Yes, but salt is dirt cheap anyway - I don't think it would cost effective to process the waste and use it. And energy is not consistently unused - most of the time we are generating less than we use and importing energy. So the plant would have to run intermittently, which is usually not...

Try charity shops. Especially BHF or other big ones as they get lots of good books.

They are very rare unfortunately. When I did the school garden I had one called Charlie and he was a godsend but on the whole gardening is not considered cool by teenagers. Charlie by the way went on to Duchy agricultural college and acheived a distinction. He wanted to be a farrier but I don't...

No problem @NoviceGardener2023Your garden, your choice. Also, often it's worth doing something if a situation is bothering you, even if it comes at a cost.Last year I did exactly what I advised against - I moved a climbing rose just a little bit to the right, for better placement against a...

I would suggest olearia. Prune back after flowering. If happy it will grow into a sizeable shrub.

They possibly don’t but there was a lot of debris that came out of the patio during the power washing, albeit more towards where it bordered with the fence panel However, I guess for the smaller gaps it was more about topping it up, if a sensible approach.

I do cut mine right back (not to the ground, but to about 8") and they grow back well. They look absolutely AWFUL for a while though.Edited to add: am going to do mine today / tomorrow... maybe!

That's really helpful ViewAhead, I'll do all that and hopefully then they'll be OK in their new locations.

I've often put largish pebbles around them to secure them while they root.

Although Tommy was 'reported' to be in the stage musical for a time, as far as I remember, he never recorded 'Fings' but did record 'What a mouth' (not in the show but many linked it to the show - it was written about 50 years before Lionel Bart wrote the show). That recording also got to No.5...

We had a professional lawn person in our last house looking after our lawns. Cutting and spraying it. He was always complaining how weak the weed killers are now that the best ingredients for destroying weeds have been removed for H&S reasons. Instead of spraying once a year he had to return 2...

An evergreen, dome shaped grass like Cortaderia selloana pumila (dwarf pampas grass) would provide a focal point below the trees and cover the border, without providing too much competition. This one in my garden is ten years old.

Living in France you shouldn't have any problem. Get a trebuchet.

As your space is limited there, just extending it to 50cm, although not ideal, would give more root space and help to retain more water and nutrients for your climbers but they will be relying on you for watering and feeding because of the proximity to the fence. I like the idea of a zig zag...

Greenfly made the leaves curl. The ants are “milking” the greenfly.