Charlotte asked about how much room courgettes took up. I have just planted mine 3 foot aprt and I would expect the leaves of each plant to touch...
Well I am fortunate in that I have never come across this problem of Becky's. I just looked up in the books I had and that was the only thing I...
I am experimenting with putting mine in at 6 inches apart, but using the wide bed principle, they are about 6 inches from each other so the rows...
How big a pot were they in? Inches or cms ? I have some that i have been selling in 2 litre pots in flower. However some others were sown late...
Some foxgolves will easi8ly go up to 7 feet in good conditions. Do you know what type of foxglove this is? Did it have any other name on the...
My broad beans are at exactly the same stage. What spacing are you using on those onions?
Good well at least that is someone else who likes bees. They nest in my stone wall by the patio and they fly around us when we have barbecues etc...
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Well Elaine might have some pretty tough slugs up there :D Lottie Unfortunately my father in law keeps asking for cabbage and I am growing...
I can't see the point of painting the flowers with sugar. If a bee is heading for your beans the last thing you want is for it to be distracted to...
I wonder if this is the larvae of the bean and bean weevil? The adults are a brown insect and cut notches out of the leaves, but the larvae eat...
I persume they are bumble bees. I think you should leave them till the end of the summer and then they will buzz off as you say. This is an...
Yes you should always take the mesh off the fat balls. I put mine in a sort of wire basket. You can buy them as a sort of green plastic coated...
Aren't they laying late summer as well? I found one single infestation last autumn. The deterrent only lasts 3 months and I had to water with a...
If you have oranges or grapefruit put the halves when you have eaten them facing down near the strawberries and check them every morning. provide...
I have used bark mulch round a hosta and it hasn't been nibbled yet. The radishes were getting munched so have been using crushed eggshell round...
The aspect would not be suitable for the evergreen clematis that I have - its a Clematis armandii but it needs a warm aspect. I thought the...
I always thought blackbirds had to feed off a table like structure. Ours seem to have managed the fat ball feeder. They flap their wings furiously...
Usually I would expect more than 3. Are there any other susceptible plants in containers? I have to plant all of my primulas in a compost...
Well its kinder than using pellets and pellets mean that if they get a non lethal dose they can pass it on to song thrushes if they get eaten....
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