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I've always used soapy spray too kinda to the environment and to all the lovely creatures

I wouldn't recommend this on a new lawn usually but I suggest you put down a weed killer (not a weed and feed) before attempting to make the lawn good. I think it has to be left a minimum of six weeks before you can progress.After treating it I would then rake loose the bare patches and...

most people advise 2 trims a year but mine gets a single trim end of September/ October and is looking fine. If its chopped into the brown it wont regrow. I know its cheating but i have seen them sprayed with green paint to help to blend it in, i think it was wood protector like cuprinol.

Hi Kurtail will kill this horrible weed but its expensive and will take time-its been around for millions of years and will be for millions more.

I often leave pelargoniums and fibrous rooted begonias for over a week and they survive remarkably well.

Welcome to the forum Carlos.I think a second layer of polythene is going to cut down light transmissions even more. Throwing it over the top probably wouldn't help much anyway. There are useful threads here:

Scratch that,Just realised I have the chip version with grows to two Feet Buzz grows to five feet.So much to this gardening lark.

Hi Poppy

Thanks everyone, my 2 oldest kids are well aware that they shouldn't eat anything in the garden but my youngest is 16 months and a terror, caught her trying to eat the sand in the Sand pit at the weekend. I do feed her, honestly! As you will see from my profile pic, we also have a chocolate lab...

I sprayed the nettles off in the field last year, as they only grow just either side of the fence, only one clump came back

Good save Bilbo it'll be off like a rocket

I think that might be it then, as the bark at the base is peeling, although I can't see any white growth underneath it. What do I do now then? I understand it gets in through the roots? Will other plants and trees in the garden also have it? It's going to be such a big loss as it also screens us...

Glad to hear it @Apple Blossom

That's how I water my pots as well. Just give them a little at first , then a good douse a minute later.

Brill - well that is what I will do. Ta.

Thank you!

So I recently bought two Bluemound shrub type plants and decided to put them up against my fence in a well prepared bed within two weeks all the lovely blue buds have fallen of and half the plants have changed colour from green to yellow.My garden at the moment is like a wind tunnel anything...

Great thanks Spruce, I will change the water now. I will move them to the upstairs bedroom windowsill, it has the same aspect but it is warmer up stairs. The Teasel seed I had have all grown up there, so hopefully the Fuchsia will like it better up there to.If nothing happens in another...

TVM

I'd attach some trellis and have some nice evergreen climbers across the whole fence. Perhaps an evergreen honeysuckle which will give off a lovely strong fragrance when it flowers, or Clematis Armandii. I'd have a border, put a climber at each end and then fill the border in between the two...