I cut a five year old euc right back in May/June a few years ago as my neighbours were getting a bit freaked by the height of it. It looked a bit shocked for a year then bounced back and produced a bushy shrub rather than a huge tree. I think they may be indestructible.

I won some 6X manure stuff and tickets to Harrogate Spring Flower Show, oh and a trug thingy. All over about 6 years, but it does work. And I'm not telling you my secret....

Before you go mad with the lime test again just to make sure. Most veggies need a neutral to alkaline soil to grow well, brassicas certainly do. so you may have a lot of work to do to get results. It may be more practical to do raised beds and fill them with imported topsoil with a better pH. Howeve...

My experience of buying tools at car boots is to beware. They are cheap but often when you get them home you wonder why you bought them with wobbly heads splintery handles etc. I've also lost a few tools to two legged vermin will almost certainly be shifting their ill gotten gains at car boot sales....

I'm sure I read somewhere recently that new research had suggested glyphosate may be an endocrine disrupter (not sure what that is but it don't sound like you should bathe in it!).

What is bog wort anyway?

Oh yes, and digging up all the seedlings in the polytunnel, eating tulip bulbs, beetroot, carrots, chives (but not garlic or onion sets), soap and teabags. Fantastically destructive varmints, I seem to be beating them with copious applications of Eradirat (a maize based product that affects only rod...

Could it be rain damage?

Can't supply a list, but your leggy cabbages are not beyond hope. Brassicas and tomatoes can be potted on as deep as you like without ill effect, so you can plant them up to the first leaves and lose the legginess! Most other plants would not tolerate being buried in this way, but brassicas actually...

Many years ago when I lived in the middle of Bradford I found a bunch of baby rats in my compost heap. Put me off composting for a while. Otherwise the usual collection of teaspoons and scissors.

thank you for the advice, I'll check out the forum and splash some cash on Amazon

Can anyone recommend a really good book on chicken diseases, preferably one with a chart of symptoms to aid diagnosis?

I've used them in the past with pretty good results - however the success relies on quite specific conditions that may not coincide with the time you have available to apply the nematodes (one year I ended up rushing to the allotment at dawn during a thunderstorm to apply them). I thought they were ...

Don't know about your growing problems but could you try using punctuation? It is a simple courtesy that helps your reader make sense of what you are trying to say (and will get you better marks even if your experiment completely fails). I gave up after the first few lines...

That was an allotment I had before I started this venture. The land I have now has a small patch in a very wet corner, this is an area I'm leaving as a boggy area so it doesn't matter that it is there. However I deliberately do not touch it, cultivate it or even walk through it when the spore heads ...

I couldn't have spread it any more as the place was riddled with it! It was even coming up in the shed.