Not sure which topic to put this in.. but. My Granddaughter works in a large office, one of the Departments chipped in for the Euromillions and the staff have won £1m in the lottery millionaire...
I have a very good crop of cherries but many of them have split when almost ripe. I suspect that this is as a result of excessive rain. Could this be the explanation or are there other possible...
I have a cherry fruit tree which is infested at the growing tips with what appears to be black-fly (trees first full season) What I find puzzling is why bees and bluebottles would be so interested in...
I have several gripes that I wish to make about Virgin Holidays. My family recently went on a holiday to Florida with them. Many issues around the booking, the flight and the staff on the flight....
My friend has planted dahlias this year and they looked lovely till some pest started eating the leaves. They appear to leave the flower alone, but love the leaves, but she has never actually seen...
Hi everyone, hope you can help me! I graduated from uni last year and since then I have just been taking a year out trying to work out what I want to do with my life. During my time at uni I just...
I am confused!
I am reading that retail profit margins are 4% or 5% for example! Does this mean, after deductions such as overheads and wages etc?? Many thanks for any help....
As our colonial are never satisfied with what we gave them, they inevitably re-invent nouns for everyday objects. This may make the simplest tasks more interesting but it does cause for some mighty...
I ad some unsuccessful bulbs planted in a small pot in the kitchen. They died, I think and when I picked up the pot to throw it away, lots of tiny flies were on the soil. Yuck! Any idea why this...
I am growing pansies this year for the first time. They are in pots and have recently come into flower. Many of the flowering stems are quite long, in some cases up to 9 inches, and are floppy. Did I...
I have a border on right side of garden - its a raised border built from railway sleepers and soil is about 2 feet deep and a foot wide. This border is in sun all morning and in shade all afternoon. i...
i have two tamarisk trees, they were labled tamarisk pentandra. According to all my gardening books they are supposed to bloom in the late summer. Mine have already bloomed and now the lovely pink...
I am away for a few days I have a very small green house with tomatoes in pots. I left the door open. I made a capillary system with buckets of water some strips of old towel and thick layers of...
my son planted some asparagus crowns some time ago and now the asparagus are growing. The instructions were that they were not to be harvested the 1rst year....so, does he leave them to die and rot or...
My daughter has had the Eucalyptus tree felled in her garden. It was approx 150 years old but was becoming a hazzard in pushing the fence over and likely to fall on cars passing by. She now has a...
does anyone know if I can get seeds from these plants - are the dark bits on the end of the anthers the seeds? I already have bought plants - but have cut floweres from a florists and notice the...
Greetings each. I planted a shrub thingy in my front garden nine years ago, on the advice of a local Wildlife Trust person. I had wanted something to attract birds, bees, butterflies etc. The plant...
I'm growing a green sweet (bell) pepper plant indoors. Should I remove the side shoots as with tomato plants? I'm also growing some tomato plants indoors and I've removed the side shoots as...
