Jack .... everybody was a 'noobie' once, even the most knowledgeable of members here and, if we had all the answers well, not only would there be...
I'd love to enter a show. I certainly wouldn't win anything - except maybe the 'Is this the best you can do?' prize, but it'd be fun if nothing...
It's true, this book is out of print but ...... last year (because I've got a garden and 'grow things') the office tasked me with finding a...
If you want really 'basic' basic (and are happy not to have glossy full-colour pages of perfectly clean hands, plants groaning under the weight of...
I've got a glut of raspberries, we've eaten them until we're in danger of turning red, I've frozen about 10lb, made jam, 'blitzed' them and frozen...
Hi Jamie - welcome. I don't profess to be any sort of expert, but there are plenty here and someone will be along to tell you what you 'should'...
Brogdale is £8 for adults, £4 for children, under 2's free and includes cookery demonstrations, talks and demonstrations, plant sales, craft...
Just to add .... if you want to investigate it, the RHS do distance learning courses. Yes, you'd have to fund it yourself, but I've just done a...
If you live in Kent or the surrounding area and fancy a trip to Faversham this week-end, Brogdale (the home of the National Fruit Collection) is...
For what it's worth, I'd suggest .... Sending off a CV to places where you'd like to work or, perhaps more importantly, where you'd get good...
There's the rub you see - 'you need bee attracting plants nearby' but when I did, they concentrated on the 'nearby plants' instead!!!
If you're going to use weedkiller - put it in something you can spray it on with, either a proper garden sprayer or even an old spray bottle (I...
In answer to your question - yes, you can! Rosemary flowers can be sprinkled over cooked veggies or you can use them with meat and seafood,...
As for getting rid of it - well there are plenty of glyphosate based products on the market and 'stuff' for killing brushwood and tree stumps. You...
You're not - believe me, really you're not!! Two words - 'Brian' (and) 'Sewell'. Need I say more? :heehee:
skinner is pretty much spot on - ants hate the wet, and since strawberries are 90% water, getting them wet and keeping them that way will be of...
Yeah, all right, you've got a point. Put it down to the fact that, not only am I a woman, I'm rapidly becoming the worst kind of woman .... an old...
I'm in exactly the same situation - as you say, it's not the getting down that's the problem ..... it's the getting up afterwards! :heehee:
Having read people's views I think, in essence, there are several types of gardener (or perhaps that should be gardening) ... Those who just...
Thank you for that everyone. I'm happy to sacrifice a bit of lawn for the purposes of an extra row and/or a successive sowing.
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