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Put it by your front gate, fix a metal lid with a slot for coins and hang a laminated photo of something heartwarming such as a crying baby orangutang.Reap your harvest when the box is full and buy chocolate and wine.Passer bys will feel like they have contributed to a random act of...

Rosemary is a good idea. It flowers, used in cooking, grows quickly and growing cuttings is easy. Tough plant as it grows up mountains in Greece.

Sorry, I didn't have time to look at that video on solar panels but if, as it seems to being said, they are a scam then it is nothing to do with the panels but just the installers. Scams are everywhere.I have solar panels that are ten years old and have had no problems and they have paid for...

I have been known to creep out into the garden in the early hours..........admittedly to watch the Hhogs but I'm sure I would have noticed the odd Vampire or 2. Mind you, it could be the Church, just yards away, which puts them off a bit ?

I grew 3 wisterias from seeds from a seed pod from my wisteria years ago. They grew into plants but mine died.The one I gave my daughter grew well and flowered some years later then she moved house and left it behind.The one I gave a friend grew well too then she also moved house but she...

I took 2 of the sweet peppers indoors with all of the yellow bacinhos. those will be in their third year now and theyre getting nice and productive.i will try growing 2 Baccatums again: havana gold and red aji delight. Im told they get bigger than normal chillis. not spicy. scotch bonnets are...

Cut three or four appropriately sized sections off a bamboo cane and wedge them horizontally between the inner and outer pot. Should aid stability and allow humidity to rise.

I was thinking mine could make a good fence treatment, or preservative for any timber that is going into the ground, it has a very similar colour to creosote. I'm glad I didn't actually swallow any of it.My tongue still feels burnt, I'm having to drink lots of cold beer to sooth it.

I have not had any blooms yet on mine planted in April '23 but still looks healthy ....