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They are using Patriot missiles that cost £4m a time to shoot down Russian made Shahed drones that are estimated to cost $20 to 30000. They also are using fighter jets costing billions to buy and keep flight worthy to shoot the drones. That's a huge imbalance @NigelJJust imagine how much...

If it's your property you can look forward to a long term project of breaking and removing the concrete so that you can plant directly into the soil.

You can grow in the same soil but each year you'll get less and less as pests build up, and you could even have a complete crop failure if you overwintered blight sporesWhy can't you grow something else in that spot?

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Your clay soil may result in your Sorbaria snd Geranium becoming invasive @latimer, as @Costas and @Perki have mentioned above. Perhaps worth waiting a few weeks to see how they develop. I have lots of gaps in my plantings at the moment, done intentionally to give more space to individual plants...

There is normally a little o-ring of rubber near the end that clicks in. I think they get dirty or perish, so I have changed them before now to stop the sudden separation. I have a big box of different o-ring and washer sizes, which is useful also for water butt taps that sometimes leak around...

I sowed mine in August - a tip from a local (Suffolk) expert, whose sweet peas were already flowering profusely in May! By autumn they were already sturdy little plants which spent the entire winter outside. Now they’re growing away nicely & I hope to enjoy the same early flowering.

I used SBK stump killer on mine last winter, no sign of any regrowth so far this year.I think you should only use it in winter though.

@LilyTL, yes, you can re-use the compost from the pots but you should remove any roots first. The removed compost would benefit from some granular fertiliser being mixed with it and/or some bagged manure to beef it up before re-using either in pots or in the garden.

How big is the Camellia? Could you use some bamboo canes and chicken wire to create a protective cylinder or cone?