Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / June 2008

I have 'volunteered' to sort out my daughter and son in laws compost /
bonfire area as shown in http://www.myalbum.com/Album-AIKAJZXZ.
The bonfire is the residue of lots of building work and you can see the
centre of a cable drum so there is no telling what else there is in there.

Just got my first allotment and I am putting in some runner beans dwar
runner and dwarf French beans, I am ok with the runner beans, but don’
know how high they will reach, do they get as high as the runner beans
I am unable to find out this info?

Have been given a kit for the greenhouse whilst on hols. Previous owner
couldn't make it work and neither can I. It comprises a pressure reducer
joint, black tubing and a number of plastic drippers and joints. The
problem is that when connected up the flow at the ends of the ...

When are perennials at their lowest price? I suppose that there is a
time of the year that they get discounted substantially, perhaps late
summer?

Hi All, Hope you can help me here, we have just purchased a new-buil
and as such have taken the onerous task of seeding the garden. It had
4" deep topsoil layer, so we levelled out as best we could, broke th
hard topsoil down into a decent surface, rolled it and then added th

I have a feeling that this could be embarassingly easy.
Can someone please identify the plant picture-linked below?
It is all over my garden at this time of the year, starting its life
is the form of little, dark-green "leaf-rosettes"; it also seems to

I was at a plant sale over the weekend and during a quiet time was
talking to Mark Walsh of Trecanna nurseries and he sells House Leeks
(among other things) none of us in the group knew why they have their
common name, The House bit it ok as people grew them on roofs etc but

Can anyone tell me whether Jeyes fluid, meths or white spirit will be
any good to soak my peas in case it is mice eating them.
Thanks Sacha for the suggestion of sharing the paraffin but most
people have their peas up now, so maybe it was not mice at all.

Hi, can anyone help with my problem? I have 5 ft conifers along
boundary fence, that are a year old.  They have been fine but now loo
as though they are dieing, going brown from bottom up. I have alway
watered well in fact they are on an irrigation system but is it perhap

I have planted four Lilac trees at the back of my property for
eventual privacy above the six foot fence. I hope to create an above
ground hedge
I would like to try and bend some of the branches horizontally.

Typical English summer or is it going to improve?  What does everyone's sea
weed say?

I have a lawn geometry that is best handled with two sprinklers.
Would it best to connect them in series (faucet to 1st sprinkler and
then 2nd sprinkler to the 1st one), or parallel (put a Y splitter at
the faucet and connect both sprinklers independently by separate

Im lucky enough that my new house has a 150ft garden. It wasn't tende
for over 10 years and was totally overgrown with massive establishe
brambles.  I've cut them down and am hlaf-way though digging out th
roots and turning over the top 6inches of soil as I go.

My computer died and I have not posted for a long time . Didn't bother to
replace the computer - there is life outside of this virtual world.
Whilst everyone wishes Monty Don  all the best and a speedy recovery. The
reality is he leaves a hole in the garden at Gardeners World.

There seems to be a shortage of suppliers at the moment (I was offered
3inch tall specimen for just under a fiver and told "You can only bu
one - everyone wants it at the moment and it's tricky to germinate"!)
Is there truth in the germination issue?  Soaking or scarification ar