Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / June 2008

I am a design student attempting to create a product which will gro
vegetables or herbs indoors i just wanted some feedback regarding:
1. the use of mirrors in order to attain sufficient sunlight
2. The exspense and harm to environment when using a lamp

I've got an Olive that's been on my south facing roof garden for
couple of years and appears to have caught some kind of black spot.
The inner leaves are one by one developing small black spots. Maybe on
or two per leaf. Over several days the leaves turn light green the

I have a 12 year old yew that has to be moved. When is the best time to
move it and any helpful tips gratefully received.

When we moved in to this house a year ago we found the previous owners
had discarded this potted conifer over the back fence.  It had one or
two signs of life on it so while we got on with other things we put it
in a shaded part of the garden and have kept it well watered over the

Hello. I'm new to the site and looking for advice. We've recently move
into a new house in Suffolk with a very large garden. It's about 3
yards from a fairly busy B road. We have lawn of about 10 yards so hav
space to put in quite a lot of planting. I'd prefer overlappin

Having said that the peanut feeder was being ignored I now have to say that
the last three days have seen coal tits (four at a time) green finches and
blue tits going at it like gangbusters.  The seed feeders are still being
used but not to the same extent as just a few days ago.  I ...

I had some really nice cabbbages growing in my little garden unti
recently the nice firm heads just started to burst open. Now they loo
horrible as if the were shredded.
Any advice welcome please. The variety is similar to Hispi.

I would greatly appreciate some help on this issue.
I was recently given a Mclean 20' 5 blade 3.5HP reel mower. I am
totally new to reel mowers but love the idea of them.  I am sick of
the "crop circles" in my lawn from my rotary mower.

Can someone with a Facebook account help me identify this plant
please?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3089411&id=837030252

I've been trying to grow poppies at various times over the past two
months on a couple of bare plots in my front and back yards.  The
climate is the San Francisco Bay Area, and California poppies are
found all over my neighborhood.

Someone/one has broken a couple of 'branches' from my small pieris which is
next to the footpath. I'm very fond of this plant. It's shape is spoilt but
it will recover.
My question is, is there any chance of striking roots from the broken bits?

Hi, I wonder if you can help me
I applied Lawn Feed & Moss Killer granules in hand spreader box to m
70 m2 lawn.
Did my best not to over apply the granules and watered after 2 days.

When the flower finally gives up, do you cut off the flower stem or just
leave it alone. It has already started a new flower stem.
This from a newby who has searched the internet and cannot find an answer.
Thanks,

Ive had an awful spring as regards veggies.
I planted out 3 outdoor cucumbers which had been grown from seed in
greenhouse. I let them acclaimatise for a week or so outside befor
potting them into a large trough. I put some hozelock water retaing ma

A friend of mine was recently over from Australia and commented on how
soft, yet strong the grass in the wild is, and that she had never seen
buttercups nor daisies!  So, now that she is home, I would love to
send her a little seed to let her create her own miniature version,