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Well I managed to pass the July exam so now on to the one next February. This time it is Plant Taxonomy, Morphology, Plant Health and Plant Physiology. Has anyone done this Module - can you give me any tips? or is anyone doing the Feb 06 exam and want to swop notes? Janine
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An old remedy to discourage foxes from henhouses was to get a male human to urinate regularly around the chosen boundary. If it works it is certainly more eco friendly than white spirit/creosote etc The downside is that the extra nitrogen encourages nettles apparently! The method I used successfully was to push plenty of my dog's poo down the earth. They didn't like it one bit!
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Sounds like 'June drop' to me. This is when a tree naturally thins out the clusters. The lack of water recently may also be a factor. Is it feasible to water it copeously? Does the foliage look OK?
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Good luck with the new veggie plot. There are basically 2 main options as I see it. 1) Lift the turf and stack it upside down - after around 12 months you will have excellent loam, or 2) Spray the site with something like Weedol 2 and after everything has died dig it over. The dead turf is good organic matter.. If you simply dig in the live turf you will cause yourself lots of grief later on. Which ever way you go it will be very hard work so do it in stages and watch your technique and protect your
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Anyone out there doing the Propagation and Soil Science module in July? I am and would love to chew over some of the topics with a fellow ''victim''. Janine in sunny Dorset
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Sounds like you could do with the services of a good garden designer! I would suggest that you draw the garden boundaries to scale on a large piece of paper. Then using sheets of tracing paper have a play with some ideas regarding shapes. Generally speaking long thin gardens benefit from being broken up into 'rooms'. I would avoid any straight lines running down the garden. Curves or diagonals work best. Making sure that you can't see all the garden at once will also make it more interesting. A sense
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A few things worth considering are; Viburnum tinus - flowering now in Dorset, evergreen and very tough Photinia x fraseri Red Robin - lovely red tinged green, evergeen leaves Arbutus unedo - tough evergreen shrub or small tree A wonder around a good garden centre will give you more ideas. A shrub 2 metres high will cost quite a bit if you want instant impact. Would you consider a bamboo? they make excellent features. Janine
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Can anyone suggest a nice design for a patio, 4metres by 4 metres. I would like to use a particular range of slabs that come in 3 sizes, namely; 600 x 450, 450 x 450, and 300 x 450. (millimetres that is!) There is space to go a little over 4 metres in each direction but not much. Any ideas welcomed.
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Are you using tap water or rain water? Citrus are intolerant of lime and that could be the cause. I find using ericaceous compost and rain water along with citrus-specific fertiliser works well. Good luck.
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