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When to prune soft fruit. First cut out any dead, dieased and damaged wood. Rasberries summer fruiting varieties should be pruned after fruiting retaining 6-8 young unfruited canes Autum fruiting varieties should be pruned...
The conker tree is an old favourite, although not indigenous, arriving from the Balkans in the 1500’s it supports a lot of native wild life as well as providing hours of fun in the...
Winter protection for your perennial plants.One possible solution is to use a horticultural fleece pegged out over the beds in late December to the end of February.Also under the fleece it will be worth...
Growing roses in containers is not an easy gardeing project.Although they will grow in most composts the quality of the flowers can be different.The best potting compost for roses in containers is a soil...
If you have flies in the lemon tree compost a number of solutions are possible to prevent this. 1. grow some seeds around the base of the pot this has a sent that will...
Re-Potting large house plants at this time of year(January) is a project many gardeners undertake.Although pot size is one of the key factors to controlling the size of most house plants.Re-potting is an essential...
Often moss growing on top of a garden border tends to suggest the soil is to acid and lacks humids and organic matter.The best course of action is to test the soil pH and...
Grass seed often in hot weather grass seed will not germinate,the seed has a kind of built in chemical temperature gage.When the weather cools down a bit you should see it start to germinate...
If you have created a pile of weeds and want to know how to get rid of it. The odds are if you mounded it up during dry weather that it will be quite...
Slippery decking – The solution is to water the decking with jeyes fluid by using a 2 gallon watering can with 8 cap fulls of jeyes fluid.This will help to kill the existing lichens...
