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Brilliant - thank you so much. I'm meeting the Head & Groundsman tomorrow to discuss the site!! V excited Lisa
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Thank you both for your really useful advice. The links are very helpful and I'll certainly make sure that I talk to the groundsman about watering! L
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I'm going to be helping my local primary school to create a dome of living willow which will be used (we hope) as an outdoor classroom. I've got a contact for a local willow supplier, but they are on their hols so, in the meantime ... What's the largest diameter & height we could expect to build from willow whips? What material would be best to put on the floor area? Any particular considerations for where would be a good spot? Light/shade/shelter/moisture/etc Any other tips for the
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... or you could offer them to a local school that has a veg plot? I know that my Garden Club would say Yes (if I hadn't already bought plenty!). Lisa
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That's Black Nightshade. We've got it all over the primary school veg garden. The ripe black berries are less harmful than the under-ripe green ones,but they will still cause stomach upsets. It's not as bad as Deadly Nightshade, but we're going to some effort to get adults to remove it from our patch before the children do their weeding. L
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You'd do fine with popping cuttings into the crystals for a while, or to keep fresh supermarket bags of herb bunches, but the gel will very quickly grow its own colony of algae and go green. Gel crystals are great for getting cuttings to root, but not as a permanent decorative fixture. Sorry. Lisa
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I give all my woody herbs a good haircut after they've each finished flowering so that I get a second set of fresh growth. Rosemary's usually first, then sage, then the various thymes, then marjoram & oregano last. My oregano still has flowers on at the moment. Mint I leave until it dies down for the winter then cut to just an inch or so of stem. Lisa
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An update! The toms germinated and the Brownies seemed to have fun potting on the little seedlings (they were only about 2" tall) and sowing small seed trays with salad mix. But the best news was when the girls all met up this weekend for the first time since the school hols and I was surrounded by them all delighted to tell me how many tomatoes they'd had Thank you!
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Clopyralid is persistent stuff. It's getting into groundwater supplies and there is no method by which the water companies can remove it. All they can do is monitor the levels and if it gets too high, that borehole has to close.
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I've had a similar imbalance in my family apple tree. http://mygarden.rhs.org.uk/forums/p/21284/34825.aspx#34825 the answers to this thread may help you too. In the end I have left the non-productive branch intact. I figure that the leaves are helping to supply the other two with nutrients. We've had a huge crop on both sides this year, so fingers crossed.
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