Recipe for Slug Bait and How to Make a Trap

April 23, 2012

Is your garden overrun with slugs? Then we have a great affordable idea for slug bait and trap. Slug Trap What you need for the trap; Empty beer cans Plastic flower pots with a ‘door’ cut in the top (these help to keep the rain out as well as make the trap more attractive to [...]

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Email chat; How to Prune Lavender

April 19, 2012

Email conversations between Bridget and Laila, co-bloggers at SowandSo.com Laila How is the weather in Great Brittain? Here we have had two nights of frost and another couple of them on their way. I have been sooo tempted to plant out my seedlings but for now I have left it with only planting out my [...]

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Sunflower Competition

April 17, 2012

Sunflower Sunflowers… they remind me of Vincent van Gogh and birds picking out the seeds. They always seemed a little ordinary to me but Bridget encouraged me to grow a few… “They’re really fast growing and pollinating insects love them” she said. One thing led to another and a few weeks back we entered into a friendly [...]

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Gardening as a Stress Relief

April 14, 2012

For me the garden is more than just a garden. Next to growing my own I also use gardening as a stress relief. Let me tell you why. Last week for me was one of those weeks I really don’t want to experience too often in my life. It started on Monday when I found [...]

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It Never Rains and Then It Pours…- rainwater harvesting

April 13, 2012

English weather It’s a well known fact that here in England we have a tendency to spend an inordinate amount of time discussing the weather but that’s because there’s always something to discuss.  Either we’re basking in an unseasonably warm heat wave, battening down the hatches due to unexpectedly high winds or researching where to purchase [...]

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Fruit Cage At the Villas

April 10, 2012

In short, I don’t know how I’d manage without my fruit cage. We initially built it as a safe haven in which to grow brassicas, having had a couple of really bad years when we tried growing broccoli and sprouts in a raised bed – both times disastrous due to marauding cabbage white caterpillars. Secondhand [...]

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