You can't get a test or a kit for it, you'll have to do it yourself, but it's dead easy. 1) Dig down a few inches and get a handful of soil....
If it gets good sun, then the world is your oyster! Climbers including, but not limited to, Clematis, Jasmine, Honeysuckle, fruit, climing or...
The grass could be Annual Meadow Grass (Poa annua). It's an annual that self-seeds everywhere, so the best way to control it is hoe or weed it out...
Also, I'm hapy to boast that I didn't lose a single borderline plant this winter. A couple I lifted and put close to the house in pots where the...
I agree. Far fewer slugs and snails in my garden this year, though that could be due to the all-out chemical warfare I've been waging on them for...
I don't pinch cuttings from gardens, but I do pinch seeds. I don't think there's anything wrong with that is there? I occassionally pinch...
Household waste and recylcling (garden, newspapers etc) on alternate weeks. Works extremely well, I must admit. That little extra incentive to...
Fresh bark chippings will also deplete your soil of nutrients. If you are mulching to keep weeds down you should really put at least a 6-10 inch...
2) Begonias and bizzy lizzies (impatiens) for instant impact. Both look great (in my opinion), are simple to grow, do well in shade, and very...
Pete - the bees are buzzing round the flowering shrubs, which are far away from the non-flowering Prunus hedge that the wasps are swarming around....
No, they aren't queens. They are workers. I know what queens look like too - spent a few weeks trying to nail them when they came to chew my...
200?! My God. Are you sure you're a gardener and not a farmer? I usually grow 4 or 5 climbing beans. That's more than enough for eating,...
Wise advice Quercus, and I agree. My problem was that I was rapidly running out of space on my windowsills and mini-greenhouse, so something had...
I know the difference between a wasp and a hoverfly or bee thank you very much Hasbeen! Honestly. Trust me, there is a huge amount of wasp...
I've had 2 waspinators in my garden since last year. The main wasp activity is no more than a couple of feet from one of them. I've often seen...
Well, they've stung me for no reason, so I'm just getting my own back! I would like to leave them alone, but they are just such a nuisance, and...
My garden is absolutely buzzing with insect life. Masses of bees. Then hoverflies, ladbirds and, unfortunately, loads of wasps. I know they are...
Well, I planted out my indoor-raised French and Runner bean plants 2 days ago. No protection, just whack 'em in. So far, so good. I'm in the...
Could be a sunflower. Do you grow them, or feed the birds with seeds?
Most slugs eat dead vegetation at the soil surface - fallen leaves etc. Clearly they are good for the garden - hundreds of little natural...
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