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Hi folks, Thanks for all of your suggestions - I appreciate what you say about foxes, however I have kept chooks in this garden before without any problems at all - I used to just use chicken wire with some bamboo canes but this was a) unsightly and b) totally ineffective - plus I got fed up with ha...

Hi, I am about to take on some hens and have a lovely new henhouse on the way. I need to build a permenant run area in the garden - foxes not really a problem and have timer door so they won't be out after dusk/before dawn. Can anyone please give me some advice as to how I can build an incredibly ch...

They definately don't like being too hot - I lost a few as mine went in the g/house and it got a bit warm, they were all droopy and limp.

Luckily moving them outside perked them up a bit but I have had to move them outside every day since, where they seem to be happier.

Hi, 42 - 12 gardeners delight, 12 'roma' (plum), 12 moneymaker (for cooking) and 6 santini (from a M&S tomato). I thought this was too many, but having read your posts, maybe not!?! It is all I am going to fit in the g/house, what with the aubergenes (12) and peppers (12) and chillis (8). Will s...

hi and welcome bonniethomas 21 cucumbers plants? you must like cucumber salads! Thanks! I am not really that keen on cucumbers, but I seem to have this innate terror that I haven't grown enough...even though every year without fail I have to heartbreakingly consign hundreds of seedlings to the comp...

I don't belieeeeve it! On Saturday afternoon I sowed about 25 cucumber seeds in seed compost with a sprinkling of Vermiculite and put in a heated propagator on a windowsill. On Monday evening after work I checked them and found that 21 seeds were now little seedlings! Is that the fastest germination...