Make a briar fence. It's even easier than making a fence for slugs, which involves snedding the sides off the briars. Just stack them up. I'll post a picture later.

I have bought 4m x 200m insect meshing from an horticultural supplier, I would have liked wider, they do upto 16m, but I would not be able to handle it....it was bad enough getting the 4m roll upto the field on the roof-rack Hi, who was the supplier? I bought a 100m roll from gromax but it came fro...

I remember reading it stayed in the soil for 30 years.?

m yikes. Are there any toxic issues with HDPE? No seriously. Surely if they were toxic we couldn't have them in our homes? Don't you believe it!! As Peter said paint is terrible stuff. Turpentine although natural is lethal stuff! And if you build a new house with steel beams or wooden ceilings take ...

You can try it for yourself and see. OK i've tried the oats but the birds eat most of them. I've tried copper wire stripped from the bits sparks dump, it seems to work, but i'm not sure how well when it gets badly oxodised. I had read that they didn't like crawling over rough sawn timber. This set m...

Apart from the ground being dry, the shade and the possible lack of nutrients as possible reasons as to why not grow vegetables beside a yew tree. Are there any other reasons why not to. I know the seeds bark and needles are poisonous but I am wondering are there any secretions from the roots? Would...

Someone who grew them commericaly once told me that Ailsa Craig were good. I got some seed but not in time for this year In Bob Flowerdews book "The no work garden" {£4 at local makro,it really is a great book [be careful of shipments from US if shopping on amazon, but back to the story} ....