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Leave him/her bee.

It will probably be a solitary, predatory wasp and hopefully will predate your pests.

I'm absoutey sure that the ARI site will have relevant advice on one of its Factsheets.

lizzie wrote:Oooooooh, get her

Not that he's a name dropper or anything

Did I name him, eh?

Least my signature has not expired.

Nothing worse than dragging a dead pimp around.....


Well OK lots of things, but we won't go into that will we Lizzie.

Compo, they are out of focus.

Seriously do you have a sharper photo/

Just like Courgettes & Marrows.

I would so like to hear a nightingale again. We had one at the bottom of our garden when I was about fourteen, 1976, still have a tape that my good friend has recently transferred from open reel to cassette. Poor thing must have been off target that year, never came back, old hawthorns and nettles s...

There was an item recently on Farming Today about the 'success' of sales of Organic produce of all sorts. They reckoned an increase of some 30%, then said something about organic fizzy drinks. It doesn't seem to me that they really have anything to do with what is generally classed as organic, carb...

lizzie wrote:I stopped with Radio 1 when they got rid of The Hairy Cornflake

Huh, my oldest friend is Director of Weekends for Radio One.

I don't listen to it though.

Idea with these is to use them as small raised beds. Either sigle or stacked. To stack you'll need a drill and some nuts/bolts, three per layer probably. Drill three holes rond the first tyre, then through the holes use a wax crayon to mark the second tyre, drill its holes and bolt them together. He...

Catbud, see in Weeds Pest Disease about white rot.

Recommendation there about not allowing to get damp when almost ripe.

Neighbour, both plot and home, told me Saturday he had got forty pounds of goosebrries off his bushes this year
Everyone has had tons of strawbs, the rsapberries are romping and the blackcurrants are festooned.

Bumper year for soft fruit perchance?

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Weed wrote:One of the most beautiful sounds in the world....the song of the skylark

Yes, agree, they seem to be on the increase again round here, especially in fallow fields. I take it your plot or garden is amoungst fields?

When a couple get up together and compete, aah.

On target I think.

Whenever I chop mine my fingers stick together with the juice and I was thinking "garlic flakes, ah chop garlic then dry" then "oh sticky stuff".

I presume now that the shrinkage means slices of clove quite thick?

What other stuff Onions, the leaves will fall over as one and start to die off. Provided the weather is good leave them to get on with it and the outer skin of the bulb will turn brown and papery, that is when to harvest them, remember there are alot of roots under the bulb though, a trowel can be u...