Author: GardenAdvice

Jasmine And Honeysuckle Care.

Both winter/summer and most types of honey suckle benefit from being cut back hard every three years to stop the build up of a woody stems mass and dead wood.You will find that even...

Soil Cuppressus Leylandii Hedge.

The soil under and old soil cuppressus leylandii hedge or were one has been removed tends to be very acid because of the cuppressus leylandii dropping there leaves over a number of years and...

Disease Problems On Willow

The main two problems with the willow are these diseases: Willow Scab Willow scab is caused by the fungus Venturia saliciperda and causes scab-like, black lesions to form on the shoots. The young shoots...

Re-Planting Apple Tree.

In some cases its not advisable to replant the same species of plant in a position in which another plant of the same species existed before.However in the case of apple trees you should...

Extending Sweet Pea Flowering.

Sweet peas require constant dead heading if they are to continue flowering. The more you pick sweet peas the more they flower.It pays to nip back some of the growing tips of sweet peas...

Soil For Raised Vegetable Beds.

Soil in raised – Lots of people are now growing Vegetables in raised beds, However some thought needs to given to the soil used to form the bed and also about maintaining the structure...

Worms And Worm Casts Control On Lawns.

Worm casts are small mounds of soil that are pushed up onto the surface of a lawn by earthworms. They are caused by the digestive process of earthworms, which involves the mixing of soil...

Lilly Beetles.

Lilly beetles we deal with ours by treating the plants with derris dust which is an organic insecticide plus we place yellow buckets of water near the plants and the beetle for reasons that...