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Ha, love the detective work. Finding block paving under gravel under concrete is properly cursed layering. At least you know the previous owner was committed to never gardening. Pots are honestly the way to go for now, especially if you might rearrange things later. You can get a surprising...

I have used those horrible yellow sticky paper things too, plus 12 fly papers, plus two UV insect killer mosquito fly pest traps that I mentioned, a pop-up mosquito net for the bed, a ceiling fan, two dehumidifiers, a fruit fly trap sticky insect ball, two knockdown plug-in mosquito killer -...

Thank you everyone, it is covered in flower buds so I'll keep it potted near the back door for fragrance and then consider where to put it. We had a pretty cold winter for here and it would have been sat outside in the sales beds during that, so is probably a lot more hardy than I had considered.

Good plan.

The repellent balls not working is so on brand for squirrels. Ours used to sit on top of the ultrasonic deterrent eating hazelnuts. Only thing that ever actually kept them off anything for me was physical netting, everything else they just treat as a mild inconvenience.

Just as the last couple of times Trump says negotiations going well, making progress and such like. The morning we wake up to news of US/Israeli raids on Iran and the talks have ended with a bang. Once his Secretary of War tells him they're ready to go then the talks will again come to an abrupt...

So out with the old.in with the new.A bit of an extravagance, but it puts itself away with auto recoil, doesn’t get the tangle that stops watering and goes 180 degrees so I can do front and back without kinking the hose.Now I just need some volunteers in here to come round and water...

Loads more here too this year, way more than the last couple of springs. Noticed them clustering around the rose buds already which is perfect timing honestly, the aphids were just starting to show up. The warm February probably helped them come through winter in better shape than usual.

Good luck with your project @Sian in Belgium, been there, done that, so sympathies to you. At least we were in the same town, not different countries!

Is it not killed by normal weed and feed products? But I would agree in making the lawn less susceptible by improving the conditions for the grass over the weeds.