Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / July 2008

My friend is moving house - and she has some of the best roses I have come
across. I think she's got a Super Mr Lincoln. Strong Scent. Vigorous Growth.
Very strong and healthy.
Unfortunately, the new owners have stipulated in the contract that they want

can anyone recommend the BEST and EASIEST rose plants i can purchase
that require no special care?
i love their colors and have a couple berms that they would look great
on!

I have an half acre, I sweep my lawn ever week and have a nice size mound of
grass. I will have alot of leaves this fall. I was wondering the best way to
compost these. We are building rasied beds for the garden we are going to
grow next year.

I have some plants of Costoluto Fiorentino, a beefsteak type Italian
tomato.  The fruits are only appearing now and are not very big yet.
So my question is: do I just leave them to it or should I restrict the
number of fruits per plant or per truss, seeing as they will

my name is Dick and i am a wild flora enthusiast - and a devotee of th
poetry of Edward Thomas
i have grown wild plants in the past, but not currently - i just fin
them so much more interesting than cultivated varieties

I went to my allotment this morning and somehow the 20 or so cabbag
collars i put around the bae of my plants in the hope that it migh
help prevent root fly are no longer around the stem of the plants. Eac
of them are now about a foot away from the plant and there are signs o

Hi Sacha,
I have a beautiful new plant, Isoplexis canarienses or Canary Island
Foxglove.  I have been able to learn a little bit about it, including that
it is scarce in its own habitat.  As it is often grown in the warmer

Could anyone let me know what orange spots on the leaves of a pear tre
is a sign of.
Thanks
Dermo

I need something a bit safer than my stepladder to stand on when cutting my
hedge(using a strimmer with hedge cutting attachment) which is about 10-11'
high.Can anybody recommend a platform for this?
Many thanks for any help.

Hi folks.  I have an end-terrace house with garden on three sides, which was
planted with shrubs and old rose borders by the builders a few years ago, no
lawns.
Particularly in the end garden at the side of the house, the bushes and

A friend told me recently that you shouldn't put banana skins into the
compost box, as they take many years to degrade. Was he correct
please? We've been including them for a long time and I'm sure we've
not seen any recognisable ex-bananas in our resultant compost.

I was planning on keeping my spring tomatoes into the fall but my
father-in-law severely damaged them..........by drowning.
We went on vacation and the in-laws came down to house and dog sit.
Somehow the garden watering instructions got confused and instead of

I'm a novice gardener very keen to grow a lot more of my own veg
Unfortunately, I only have a small and quite windy roof space - abou
nine feet by five.
I grew tomatoes and bell peppers quite successfully last summer, an

Bought my first house and spent a few quid getting the garden sorte
which included levelling out the lawn and returfing it.
At first, the grass looked great but, a month later or so, there wa
the odd weed popping up. 3 Months on and there's weeds coming throug

it is about 2 foot tall and has green leaves looking like a norma
daffodil (without the yellow petals), but on the end of the tal
shoots, are these green pods about 7cm long by 3cm wide. i pulled on
off to look at it, its hard but soft as in there is something inside.