You can use a hosepipe to water food crops but not flowers, but please, only use a hosepipe if you are actually unable to water with a can – and don’t use it on the setting show by Thames Water!, virtually everyone involved in horticulture recommends that you soak the ground with no nozzle or […]
This year I had a repeat of a problem with my strawberries – woodlice. I’d go to pick them, and find many with a little spherical hole near the top, each hole containing one or more tiny woodlice. It was as if I were running a woodlouse kindergarten! It must have affected about a third
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Now that it’s turned chilly, it’s even more important to give your garden birds food and water. If they don’t eat, they don’t survive the cold nights. And they need water for bathing, to keep their feathers in good condition to get them through the night. So please, think of your garden birds while you’re
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Thanks to Joanna for sending in her result – adding a wren to our total. The 2018 Big Garden Birdwatch took place on the 27-29 January, when the RSPB asked everyone to spend an hour watching their garden (or allotment or local park) and note which birds they saw. This has been happening since
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Do you know your damsels from your dragons? If you do, here’s an opportunity to put your expertise to the tet. If you don’t, it’s the perfect opportunity to learn! The British Dragonfly Society are running the Dragonfly Challenge from 15th – 23rd July. It’s a citizen science project with a serious aim: to find
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