Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / February 2010

The Truth About "Martin Luther King, Jr."
WHEN THE COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER a country, one of the first things that
they did was to confiscate all the privately-held weapons, to deny the
people the physical ability to resist tyranny. But even more insidious

I had a tree cut down a couple of years ago.  Stump still in situ.
It has developed some fungi, but I don't think it's honey fungus; too
orangey.  I've seen HF before and Googled pictures.
Any ideas what I might do to get rid of it?  

can anyone advise me of a suitable compost/fertiliser for rhubarb.  My wife
will not let me put down dung as the rhubarb pastch is near her kitchen
window.  The rhubarb is 2 years old but can I think do with some feeding.
Thank you.

Reading the Kitchen Garden I notice you can now buy seed potatoes direct
from a Scottish grower.
Their URL is...   www.jbaseedpotatoes.co.uk
Handy if you can't get to a Potato day.

I know this is not strictly a home-growing question, but does anyone know
why the "sweetheart" or "pointed" cabbages in the supermarkets are suddenly
white instead of green?  In the winter, you need to eat your greens, not
whites.

Many hectares of land belonging to many farmers are now no longer
needed for growing peas, thanks to a cancelled contract from the chief
customer, Birds Eye, who has lost its own chief customer in Italy.    
My husband heard of this today at a lunch for growers and looking it up

I have a very large garden, that needs tidying up. its basically a base
with bit of rubble.
Im not sure if i should rotavate it or throw top soil on.
Any one any ideas?

What kind of soil/compost do people have most success with for planting
seeds?  I've not had great success with anything I've tried so far, up to
and including home mixed compost, worm poo compost and B+Q peat free
compost.  We have a John Innes' compost outside which I thought was ...

A couple of times I have bought growing herbs in pots  like Basil
,Parsley or Coriander etc from supermarkets and while they are fine
and very healthy when you buy them they never survive more than a few
days . I'm assuming that they are forced to get to the "selling" stage

I am very interested in buying a flat in central London that I hav
recently viewed. This is a basement flat in a converted Victoria
terraced house.
When I viewed the flat, I was a bit puzzled by the layout and would lik

I am very interested in buying a flat in central London that I hav
recently viewed. This is a basement flat in a converted Victoria
terraced house.
When I viewed the flat, I was a bit puzzled by the layout and would lik

I thought some of you might be interested in this although I did post
a bit about it elsewhere, so apologies to those who have already seen
it.  There’s a very long pre-amble to this – in fact it is likely to
be a very, very long post, so be warned.  This may turn out to be more

Just wondering what your experiences have been with electric fences?
I recently set up my own electric fence in one paddock, for a mix of
creatures ranging from chooks (yes, chooks!) to sheep and goats. Years
ago I managed an avocado farm, which also ran some cattle - I used to

I am in a situation where we are buying a new house.  It is currently
undergoing roughly $23k in repairs under the FHA 203k rehab loan
program.  After they are done, we will move in, probably about the end
of February.

Hi,
I am looking to buy my husband a plant for Valentines Day - I wante
something like a lemon or orange tree, can someome tell me firstly i
they actually can be grown here and if anyone knows where I might b