Vine Weevils.
The Vine Weevil is a pest that infests a wide range of ornamental plants and fruits both indoors and outdoors. It is one of the most common and destructive garden pest.Containerisation however seems to...
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Plants To Produce A Screen In A Coastal Area.
Plants to produce a screen in a coastal area: A good indicator to weather or not a plant will survive to windy and salty conditions near to the sea is to look for a...
Growing Begonias From Corns.
Begonia corns are beststart them in January February in a dry soil based John Inness compost lightly watering them every week on a cool window sill in a cool room maybe a hall way...
Alpine Trough With An Old Belfast Sink.
Using an old Belfast sink to grow alpines in it for a garden feature.When we have done this we have scuffed the sides and then rendered it will a mixture of sand, cement and...
Red Spider Mite On Indoor Lemon Trees.
Indoor lemon and organge trees often suffer from red spider mite which is a very small spider like insect that sucks the sap of the plant discolouring the leaves and in some cases causing...
Summer Catch Crops.
Summer Catch Crops. Catch crops for the vegetable garden with your main crops underway now is a good time to sow a few catch crops in between the rows of your other crops such...
Growing Courgettes In Large Pots Or Growbags.
Growing courgettes in large pots or growbags. Courgettes are well suited to growing in containers such as grow bags and large pots.Best in pots using the largest post you have in the space available,remember...
How To Deal With Heavy Clay Soil In The Garden.
Gardening on heavy clay soil presents a unique set of challenges — but also opportunities. When you understand what clay soil is doing beneath your feet, you can turn it from an obstacle into...
Growing Jicama In The UK
Can you grow Jicama in the UK? The answer is yes as long as we get a long season which we have done over the last few years. You will need to start the...
Replacing A Leylandii Hedge (Cupressocyparis Leylandii).
Because of disease or simple old age over the next 5 years as many as 750,000 leylandii(Cupressocyparis Leylandii)hedges will need to be replaced in the UK. With climate change and disease it will not...
