Doghouse - is that Farrow and Ball's 'Eating Room Red' I spot on your kitchen walls? The colour scheme looks remarkably like my own, where I...
My 'min/max' thermometer recorded a daytime high of 42ºC and a night low of 22ºC - back in February, I remember being delighted when the daytime...
I'm afraid nothing will grow in my dark strip - except lilly of the valley. It may lack that vibrant splash of colour, but I can forgive it that...
Excellent advice. No matter how perfect something may be using a spirit level, the human eye is far more critical. When my husband 'half-tiled'...
Yes! Put simply, they're a special type of 'brick', roughly the same size as house bricks, but without the 'frog' - the dented bit you get in...
During the night one, or more, snails have clearly held a dance on my lounge window - the sun is now shining through their tell-tale trails. Yeuk!
You can get something called 'Resolva 24hr' weedkiller, which kinda does what it says, in that it kills weeds in 24 hours, it's expensive though...
Is it a new hose or one you've had a while? If its new, then its possibly just some residue from the manufacturing process, I doubt it would...
I recently had to buy a new camera and allowed Jessops to talk me into a bigger memory card which (so the 'blurb' informs me) means that my camera...
Life's a bitch 'aint it! :ywn: :wink:
I've got brindle blocks set on their edges but there's still a certain amount of grass which naturally grows/creeps over them, especially if you...
My daughter has just moved into her first home (a small house in the 'Mudways'): she's begun to clear it's tiny yet heavily overgrown, garden but...
My thanks to everyone. At least it's my fault and that, I can do something about. Usually I stick to the flowers and 'Sir' does the veggies,...
For various reasons I actually bought my runner bean plants this year - 2 trays of them. I hardened them off, I planted out one row but had to...
First and foremost, you need a lot of room to make it worth growing asparagus - they need to be planted 18" apart with the same distance between...
No expert me, but as I understand it, you earth up until the shoots are just covered, say by about 1cm or so. The smaller the depth of soil over...
Many thanks - I'm happy to accommodate anything up to about 18" and don't mind providing supports, it's just that there didn't seem much point if...
Having made some monumental mistakes - Russian Vine, bamboo, foxgloves to name but three - I have a theory .... the less a plant costs (relative...
I've been offered some dwarf bean plants which I'm anxious to accept but I'm seriously short of space. For some time we've been thinking of...
When some years ago, as novice gardeners, we planted a Russian Vine (partly to hide an unsightly domestic oil tank and partly to cover our...
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