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I have pet rabbits, and they produce a lot of manure.Can I use these manure pellets as fertiliser in the garden?
Hi Gerry, I have 3 or 4 beech trees that were attacked by rabbits but luckily enough i saved them.17My question is:The Beech trees are only about a foot high. Last year I cut the tops to generate growth but think I may have done more good than bad. This year they are showing signs they are still alive. I heard that if you cut the tops they stop growing. Is this true as I cut the tops of mine when they were only a foot high? Martin.
I have a large garden with a mixture of flower and shrub beds, they are in bad need for a feed, would you recomend spreading well rotted horse manure
I have three Himalayan white bark birch trees growing the my front lawn. In the last few days (during this lovely dry spell) I noticed pale medium sized mushroom-like fungus growing around the bases of all three. The ground is quite dry at the moment. Need I worry?
Are there any issues with using fresh shredded branches as garden mulch. Any trees to avoid?
This year my pot grown Brugmansia has all yellow leaves instead of green.The yellow flowers are abundant. I have tried various fertilizers without success.
i have a wisteria plant , bought 3years ago.it flowers every year . after the first year of flowering i trimmed back all the leader branches to encourage new branches. since then it has made no growth at all.absolutly none. it's full of leaf and looks very healthy but there is no new growth and the plant hasn't changed shape since i cut it back after the first season. any ideas why this has happened.
I planted this early last year but it has never flowered. Any advice?
I put 5 japanese azaleas in different parts of the garden about two years ago and they are not doing well at all. The did flower earlier in the year but poorly. Do I need to feed them?
I have a lot of turf dust in our shed just wandering can it be used anywhere in the garden. Have a laurel hedge , can i put it down under trees to suppress weeds or put it on compost heap.
I planted some red robin shrubs along a railing between myself and a neighbours garden last November.They problem is they look like someone sat on them as such.What should i do to make them stronger?
My beech hedge planted 3 years ago is very slow to mature and a few have not survived, the soil is poor and an adjacent hedge planted at same time is thriving. Whats best fertiiser to use and shoudl I mulch and fill in gaps with a different species
I enclose photo of acer griseum which is non thriving but is in leaf. its about 3years old. i have 2 others and they are doing well. I planted a cotoneaster beside it in autumn as i was going to dispose of the acer but forgot to.
Gerry, I recently asked you about the best ways to get my shelter belt of trees growing after I incurred many losses through failures. You recommended adding more trees from pots (not bare rooted) as they would survive the harsh winds better. You also recommended spraying off weeds from the base of the existing trees and giving them a boost with some fertilizer.Just to update you, your recommendations were spot on. I did plant some pines (from pots) into the areas where there were failures and I sprayed and added fertilizer (7-6-17) to all the trees.I guess along with the great rush of growth that April offers, the results have been instantly positive.As the trees are breaking out of dormancy they are soaking up the fertilizer and without the weeds to compete against, they are getting a great start to the year.I should have been less ambitious when I planted large bare-rooted trees to begin with. The strong Atlantic winds just hammered them, leading to numerous failures and severe die-back Those that survived now look shrubby, not like what trees should look like. From here onwards, I'll stick to your advice and plant from pots and take more care of the trees I plant.
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