Happy New Year everyone! As you may remember, we've moved house, and a new vegetable plot (raised bed, filled with compost, about 1metre x 3...
Probably a silly question, but my (first ever!) broad bean seedlings are just coming through, and it looks as if one of my friendly birds is...
I have inherited a problem hedge. I think it has been pruned too hard / at the wrong time, probably over a year ago (looking at how dead the dead...
I'm about to make a raised bed for veg-growing, and am gardening on a slight slope (prob no more than 1 in 20?). Do I need to make the surface of...
We have just moved, and I have probably the biggest "project" ever ahead of me - what to do with 23.3 ares of land (about 1/2 acre, if my...
I have just sat near a birdfeeder in our garden, and watched whilst 3 nuthatches waited their turn to feed on our 4-season birdseed mix. Each one...
I probably shouldn't post this here, but I need to "talk it through" somewhere... For all of my gardens over the years, my father has been my...
We've just moved to a new pad, and this means new plants! To help, the garden is mainly on sandy soil, with some clay patches near the bottom of...
Hi there, I know I've been quiet for the past few months, as have been busy packing boxes. We have now finally moved to our new place, and I'm...
I am having to move an establishing blackcurrant bush - it has been in the ground for 3 years, but we are moving house this summer, and this bush...
Hi there, I wondered if people could help me identify this rose. The stems have a grey luster to them, it has single small pink flowers, a...
I know I've been quiet for a while, because I've been busy looking for a new house.... ... we've now found one, and hope to be moving around June...
OK - well, I thought I'd give cooking the ground elder a 2nd try, as there was promise in the first tasting of the steamed leaves.Pick only the...
We hope to be moving house soon, and I do like to "take" a little of each place when we move. At this house, we have wood anemones and wild...
Ok - probably better to do 2 seperate threads, but here goes!We burn quite a bit of firewood during the winter (bought locally, so probably from...
Hi there!I thought I'd better introduce myself. I'm Sian, and as my user-name suggests, I live in Belgium.I grew up with the rich red clay of...
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