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There is an alternative vegemite4me - big pots on the patio. I sucessfully grow food from swede to carrots to lettuce in pots on the patio. Its a lot less effort and the pots are higher up from the ground than a raised bed and more difficult for the slugs to scale to eat your crops.
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Im afraid that fruit from a tree grown from the avocado stone arent edible. But the trees can grow lovely and big and look stunning.
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Apparantly there is also a brain worm which humans can get too called Taenia solium and cats and dogs can get it too. It lives in pork. Many humans think its a brain tumour thats causing limb paralysis but actually its a brain worm which is much easier to treat.
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Could you not dig up the patio and create a real soil bed? Patios are so anti wildlife friendly. If you had a real soil bed it would be so much easier with drainage etc.
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Many money tree plants go down hill from brown spots onwards. But overwatering is most likely the main cause as the soil should be bone dry before you water it each time. But you should also mist them or keep them in a humid tropical type environment.
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I havent seen a brick cold storage in my lifetime, but apparantly a simple cold storage would be a hole in the ground with a lid, see http://www.eco-sf.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/coldstorage2.JPG Maybe you could dig down and line the earth with bricks? Ive never built one myself but Im imaging a bunker style thing in my head
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Cats totally ignore humans, so they will probably be back I clap my hands loudly if they go near my plants. Then they shoot off. Then come back an hour later demanding to be fed and looking all sheepish. Then they do it all again the next day!
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How big is it? Is there any plants/trees? What would you like to be the main activity? A lawn to play games on? A vegetable bed to grow home grown veg? A pond?
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I did think that too Anemone, but its a very weird way of promoting his business by joining the RHS forum.
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Thanks Crispyduck. if all goes wrong and I cant find a supply of plants in London, I will attempt to grow them from the supermarket stalks
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