Compost & Soil
Exotics & Houseplants
- Codiaeum: Doing well in the kitchen
- Cordyline: Needs a prune after cold winter
- Crassula: Feed, but don’t water too much
Fruit
- Brown rot fungal disease affecting fruit trees
- Apples: Dark spots are signs of bitter pit
- Apples: How to stop codling moth getting inside apples
- Cherries: Wild cherry trees - Prunus ‘avium’
- Limes: Honeydew on citrus fruit is a common, sticky problem
- Pears: Asian Pear is reliable in the UK
- Pears: Trees need to be in the same pollination group
- Plums: Rust fungal disease affecting plum tree
- Raspberries: How to stop the raspberry beetle
- Strawberries: Plants attacked by tiny worms
Seeds
Weeds & Pests
- Vintage week-killing recipes are best left in the past
- Will ladybirds harm my plants?
- Pokeweed: Watch out for American native
- Gallant solider/Kew weed: Regularing hoeing needed for several years
- Sap-feeding scale insect leaving shrub branches bare
- Shamrocks: These can become serious weeds
- Thorn-apple, Datura stramonium: This weed is not persistent
- Verticillium fungi: Considering grassing over area for 15 years
Flowers
- Can you name some flowers that could be ready by May?
- Busy Lizzies: Fungal disease has spread
- Daphnes: Help get my Jacqueline Postil back to being a wonderful sight
- Clematis: The best way to take clematis cuttings
- Dahlias: How to lift and store dahlia tubers
- Fremontodendron: Plant may be at the end of its life
- Fuchsias: Let your plants dry and watch out for rust
- Lupins: Compost is at the root of problem
- Roses: Fertiliser confused for worm or slug eggs
- Roses: No signs of flower buds on my healthy climber
- Rhododendrons: Buds have turned brown
- Rudbeckia: A hardy flower that likes the sun
- Weigela: When is the best time to prune it?
- Wisteria: Growth is easy to control
Hedging & Lawns
- How to treat dieback on conifer hedges?
- Evergreen hedges: Aphid is likely cause of browning
- Grass: Transforming it into a wildflower meadow
- Hornbeam hedge: Lichens unfairly blamed for lack of vigour in plants and trees
- Portuguese laurel: How to cut it back
- Watering: Add gypsum if using softened water on lawns
Trees
Vegetables & Salad Vegetables
- Beans: Broad bean seed beetle affects dry seeds
- Brassicas: How to defend against the main pests
- Leeks: How to limit rust fungal disease
- Onions: When to plant for winter?
- Potatoes: Chosing the right variety for boiling
- Potatoes: How to prevent common scab
- Potatoes: Variety needs to match your soil
- Potatoes: You need good compost if growing in bags or pots
- Tomatoes: Taste of Garderner’s Delight has changed
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