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Nice to see Stonehead back in the fold, sorry to give the impression that i am somehow infirmed, i just have an irrational fear of a hard day's work. I've sat behind a desk all my working days(about 10 yrs) so digging when there is an easier solution bring me out in beads of sweat. I think i'll get ...

I'm not sado-masochistic either, we're talking aboyt a good length of digging here, what i hope to do is kill off grass so i can rotovate to work the soil. You lot don't just do your digging in the garden, you've been throwing a few digs at me about my work shy tactics

Rgds,
Tremone

Dare I ask is there a safe chemical i can put on that will kill off the grass, as digging is too labour intensive.

Rgds,
Tremone

I have a section that I would like to extend my veg plot, it is currently grass, i've been told i need to get rid of the grass before going at it with a rotovator. Do i need to apply a chemical or will simply covering it over the winter allow me in with my rotovator in spring time.

Rgds,
Tremone

After my earlies & mains suffering from blight this year can anyone recommend blight resistant varieties in both earlies & maincrops for next year.

Here in Ireland we're on our own, i think i'll use the petrol system. just hope the whole garden doesn't go up, spent ages getting this forest like garden into some sort of shape. I would co-exist with the buggers but they want total domination. 'What we have here is a failure to communicate-some wa...

In the corner of my garden which i'm trying to set up as a proper garden, i have strimmed down everything and am now able to mow half of it but need to strim the other half, during my strimming last night i cam under attack in a combined forces of hornets & wasp. This is my 2nd attack and this t...

Thanks for the replies but i have one query, many of you mention removing the cloche on the courgettes & sweetcorn, but i live in a place called Co. Donegal in Ireland, very north in line with Stranraer in Scotland, so i'm concerned about extensively windy & cold spells. It is a weird summer...

Due to friendly but unpredictable farmer i only got my plot ploughed & rotovated in early april so there was no time for soil improvement so then i had to dash to make up beds & remove rocks etc which in turn meant everything went in around the same time. As this is my first year planting a ...

I'm not sure how to spell it and maybe it's an irish name for it but my father calls it that.

Just down the shore there at the weekend and it got me thinking about another food source, but how do you recognise carrigan moss, sloe etc and at what time of the year do you harvest them?. Any advice/websites greatly appreciated.

Rgds,
Tremone

We still do turf over this part of the world and I was just wondering if the peat dust could be used as a compost. Also if anyone has a compost recipe(ie 1 lump kitchen waste, 2 lumps grass cuttings etc) to produce compost in 6 weeks that would be grand.

Rgds,
Tremone

If you feed them meat then they won't go after vermin as they'll have had the meat quota, give em nuts & keep them hunting.

I just wondered is it wise naming pigs as one day the inevitable will be thrust upon you, to me it would be much harder if the kids have named them and regard them as pets.

I saw that show with Harvey Keitel aswell and while it was balanced in the sense that it did show high level failure within the US government it did portray Al Qaeda as terrorist madmen but did not show why so many were committed to this cause. It did not show the US foreign policy activities all ov...