Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / September 2008

.... be a Yew?
Self setter just to the right of the curtains in the first picture ("View
from the Computer" with apologies to Arthur Miller) near the Torbay Palm
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the server.
Thanks,

Why have we been paying taxes all these years if all we need to do is print
more money when we need it?

Epl. Golden Spice 'Red Peppers':
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C. David Bishop x C. Susan Ridge:
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Apart from the obvious winter pansies, what can you recommend for low-
maintenance container gardening this autumn/winter. (Jersey, if that
makes any difference: we tend not to get many frosts!)

My wife bought some bulbs while on holiday in the UK, now on her retur
to Vietnam she has been told that she must Vernalise them or they won'
flower.
A quick ask around the bar came up with nothing positive on method

My "to do" list includes a series of raised beds in my backyard for next
year.  I was going to knock together some 4'x8' beds made out of 2x10
lumber when I received the Lee Valley gardening catalog ( also on the web
at www.leevalley.com ).

A couple for any rose experts out there:
We were recently given three container grown roses:
Ruby Rambler - a miniature rambler
Ruby Wedding - floribunda

I have been gardening for about 40 years,but still have problems
growing leeks which are very large or which do not go to seed.My
allotment is on sandy acid soil and I always add some compost to my
leek patch.I plant about six inches apart,and plant in a hole about 8"

I attempted to demonstrate my advanced (or lack of) intelligence today....
I am growing some peppers. Actually, I have about 45 pepper plants, but
about 10 of them are these long green peppers. I think they turn red, then
you dry them and make ground up hot pepper for aisan ...

Having killed the Moss with weed and feed, a bare patch has now been taken
over with an Ants nest and they are pulling all the earth up and spreading
it around.
HELP. Any suggestions?

We have just moved to a new home that has two fifty-foot eucalyptus trees in
the back yard about 20 feet from the house.  The area where the trees are is
plain dirt that has never been planted/irrigated.  The tree roots do not
appear above ground.

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I was just watching this documentary:
The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
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While waiting for my wife to shop I browsed the headlines of various
daily papers this morning. One of them,I never noticed which, claimed
the dear old government are planning to bring in rules about what we can
do with our gardens. It seems that this is an attempt to reduce ...