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Shadow On Pitch ?

What is the shadow thats seen on the pitch during the world cup games, some sort of over-head camera perhaps ?

I know the venemous little 'aspics' (grey), but today found a muddy-brown, quite chubby snake about 18 inches long in my veg. patch. (Vienne, France) The dog was barking at it, and very hesitant, and...

Daffy6543

Plant Identification Help Please

My sister has again asked me to identify a plant in her garden and I can't find it via Google or any of the plant nursery sites I frequent. This one has special meaning for her as it was part of a...

john1066

Strawberries

Last year on my allotment i had a very large crop of strawberries. This year I planted runners from last years plants and the crop was almost non-existent. From about 50 plants I gathered not more...

interele

Sweetcorn

What is the smallest pot I could reasonably expect to grow sweetcorn in ? Ta Mal...

Jamjar74

Potatoes

Potatoes in my small vegetable patch are ready to come out. Does cutting off the foliage stop the potatoes from growing further? If so how long can they be left in the ground before harvesting. We...

x-ray

Sparrows Behaviour

Earlier this year (Spring time) we were surprised to find sparrows occupying the bird box fixed to the wall of our house.Eventually after all the nesting, feeding etc, and the young birds had flown,...

237SJ

Chewed Up Cat Food Sachets In Garden - Cat Or Fox?

I keep finding chewed cat food sachets in my Mum`s garden. I guess they have been removed from someone`s recycling bin. I`m pretty sure it`s a fox but would a cat carry and deposit them somewhere...

cecil39

Window Bird Feeders

For Fathers day my dear one was given a window bird feeder that attaches to the glass, what I am wondering though, do the birds make an awful mess of the window? as I hate cleaning windows....

Mags22

French Lavender

Mine looks decidedly sick as we've been on holiday so hasn't been watered,should I cut it back,or leave and hope for the best?

TCoys28

Decking And Flies

We've just had decking laid in our back garden this week, which looks amazing. But for some reason, there seem to flies all over it. I hated my back garden before the decking and never just to sit out...

Chipchopper

Garden Camping

I think its a good dress rehearsal for the real thing and its friendly on the pocket too. pets are welcome and you can always opt to go back to the house, if things don't work out for some reason. The...

Birdfeeder

Green Water

Has anyone any suggestions for getting rid of green water from a small garden pond? There is no pond weed or duck weed present. There is also a good quantity of oxygenating plants but not a lot of...

Daffy6543

Shrub I.d. Help Please.

Can anyone ID this for my sister please? http://i61.tinypic.com/2u5x4ia.jpg...

DrFilth

Cat And Lynx

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/19/cat-friends-with-lynx-video_n_5510409.html . ....

Chipchopper

Honeyberry

Anybody grown it ? I've seen some healthy looking specimens of this edible honeysuckle in a garden centre and I'm thinking about growing a bush or two. I have plenty of wild honeysuckle growing in the...

susanxx

Moss And Lichen Cleaner

has anyone got any home rememdies for cleaning tarmac to get rid of the green residue, moss and lichen prior to painting the tarmac with a proprietary product?

horseshoes

What Are These Little Pots?

http://i62.tinypic.com/2iawnee.jpg I have a lot of old stoneware pots and bottles, but I don't know what the 3 at the front of the photo once held. They are just 9 cms tall (approx 3.5"). Does anyone...

sumar

Homeless Bee?

I don't know if is as strange as it appears to me, but I have a very big bee that has moved into my shed recently! I say recently because I noticed it 6 days ago but it may have been there longer....

davpat

http://tinypic.com/m/ic79n9/4

Anyone know what this tree is called?

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