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My bark chippings came from Lidl and i cannot see anything which indicates any treatment BUT they do have a strange aroma - sort of sweet and pungent?

Help About 2 weeks ago in a fit of tidiness for an upcoming BBQ i covered all of the bare soil on both my 3 year old fig tree containers with bark chippings. I have now noticed that all of the leaves are yellowing and there is a brown tinge to some of them. Did the same to some other fruit trees wit...

Hi Silly question but can any of our 'down-under' colleagues confirm whether runner beans etc climb their poles the other way round (anti-clockwise) in the southern hemisphere. I know it is different between north and south for water in sinks etc and am just wondering whether plants do the same thing?

Hi: On the few remaining tomatoes that I have left after spraying from the blight there are a SMALL number of fruits still with a bluish tinged residue from the Bordeaux mixture. I assume that these are too poisonous to eat but will they be OK to compost or will I kill some of the necessary inhabita...

Hi Picked up a peach and a nectarine tree recently and would like to know if there is a minimum spacing to avoid any chance of cross-pollination? Also can they both be grown succesfully on Essex clay or do I need to fill the planting holes with anything special, currently intend to wait until the we...

At the moment it only has two leaves and one starting in the centre, it is these two which are affected. The leaves all did exactly what you described last year but I do not remember any blackening which is why I am worried. How did you keep yours through last winter?

I have a 5 foot high bannana plant in a pot which I have managed to not kill this winter (the other two seemed to rot from the top down. It is kept in an unheated greenhouse and I have just noticed that the leaves are 'blackening' on the outer edges. I have kept it well watered during the recent hot...

Hi Think I have, somewhere!, a photocopy of the original Howard operating guide for the Bantam. From memory it was very very simple but if you need me to carry on looking will do BUT have a number of commitments which will delay my search, sorry. Let me know and if I find it I will have to post you ...