Same here with the rain. We've had a couple of showers but too brief to do any good.
If the flowers are opening and then dropping without any fruit forming, it sounds like a pollination problem.
The first Zinnia. [ATTACH]
No, that's the big problem - discharging brine would affect the salinity in that area and kill sea life. Sea life is adapted to very specific...
I have a Rasta cookbook and callaloo is in an ingredient in many of the recipes, with spinach suggested as a substitute if it's not available.
It's a very expensive, energy intensive process and leaves you with a lot of ultra-salty waste to get rid of.
Do the flowers open?
I know Australia had some pretty strict water restrictions during its years of drought. There is a wonderful episode of the sitcom "Kath and Kim"...
Likely it's not a larch. Larch drops all its needles in winter, then in spring it has the most beautiful pale green foliage. It really is a...
Yes, my silver birches are beautiful but they drop tiny twigs all year, masses more in a storm, then there's the little flowers that get...
Yes I thought it might be larch, which is why I wondered if it had been topped. They generally have a perfect christmas-tree shape. I used to have...
I wonder if it's been "topped" at some point in the past?
I made a very rustic trellis out of the hazel I cut down last year.
The squirrels take all my hazelnuts too, but then they did plant the trees so I guess they're entitled!I cut back a big one last year and now I...
All Greg has to do is announce that he's a woman now and the BBC will have him back like a shot.
I am planning to sow some dwarf french beans in pots. That way I'll be able to keep them watered, and hopefully by the time they are ready to go...
I have finally accepted that the spinach beet has bolted and pulled it all out. That leaves me a little space to grow something new.
Agree with Morrisons, I've had good results with their little plants. Though the last few times I've been in they've had nothing much on sale,...
Comma on the Borage [ATTACH]Mint moth on Eryngium [ATTACH]
I use one brown council caddy inside to collect my kitchen waste for the compost bin. And another couple outside to store/carry the completed...
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