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I’d be surprised if Beth Chatto’s gardeners use slug pellets or insecticides . Birds tend to be vocal here in the morning and out looking for worms mainly early morning and at dusk. Sound for me also includes wind through the trees and swishing through dried grasses in winter.

20-30 years of growing different runner beans in the past, but maybe about 5-10 years ago I decided to try Moonlight and up to now they have given a tremendous crop each year and in the same spot year after year (although I do empty the compost bin on the area, oh and plus we're not on a water...

Tomato seed varies in price widely. F1 seed I have costs around £3.99 for 8 seeds where as open pollenated seed can be half that price for about 50 seeds.

I use pencil, then at the end of season I collect all the labels. The ones that didn't break from the light get washed (using sponge and soap), then I use eraser to clean whatever written.

I don't think A's arrest was that dramatic and doubt it was done deliberately on his birthday either. If he couldn't be persuaded to voluntarily assist in the investigation, presumably the police had no other option than to take the decision to arrest him. Even had he not been stripped of his...

Nine thousand! Ri-ight. Well, we'll see what it does this year...

Spring flowers enjoying sunshine this morningJenny namaste

Within 60 miles of Dorset, do not net to prevent sunshine but it goes help to protect from wind drying, preventing some wilting caused by this and in other weather, creates a nicroclimate worth 2-3 degrees . Essential here for pigeon protection especially and butterflies I use scaffold debris...

Te one from Spain arrived today so I have it resting before planting, Sanremo ...

Hard wood cuttings have stored energy so they can often continue to throw out leaves before they root. I would personally remove the fruits because they are just robbing the energy and won't come to anything. In water you get those little white dots as a precursor to rooting. It's a good sign...

If you did decide to remove your grass areas @machtucker, Hakonechloa makes good ground cover. I have it planted under an Acer in my lower garden shown below in summer, autumn and winter.