Recent content by Rob Lakeside

I was at Merrist Wood 1980. The Golf course was fields for the cattle and maise production. The Equine Arena was the PIG farm and cattle/milking area with the Prize hereford bull called OXO. The top area were the staff kept their horses was were i spent my life in the nursery training to be a...

Remember Slugs and snails do have a beneficial purpose, to eat and breakdown dead organic matter. Were else do we have large amounts of rich organic matter, livery yards!

So pleased to see some one taking an enviromental view, slug pellets should only be used in a limited use and best placed under twigs and branches to limit other animals eating the pellets or the dieing slugs. beer works till my local fox finds he to likes this beverage

Spray these off with SBK that can be bought from the garden centre

Docks grow from root cuttings, or if you leave a bit in the ground it will re grow. SBK from the garden centre is the best way to remove docks grom grass.

Still the best product on the market and available from the garden centre is SBK it is a brushwood killer that is safe in grass. If you search buttercups on H&H forum you will find a few more idears

Grazon and SBK both have the active ingrediance Triclopyr

I have looked at depilox and am not sure if it will kill docks, these are vary difficult to eradicate and you may find this weedkiller will distort the plants but they will later grow out and survive. Yes it is a broadleafed weedkiller but will not kill all weeds. Use SBK for best results...

Thanks for this blog,i wish to know what to wear too.

The old fashened reason was to soak nettles, borage and Comfry. The reason was the deep root structure would bring up elements deep in the ground into the plant and these you would soak out in a soup. Grass has no deep roots so whats the point except to save cost of disposal. Sugars componds...

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Any good garden centre lawn weedkiller will kill this. it is about spraying it earlier than most weedkillers. Use SBK or verdone from the garden centre in April/may Go not dig it up as you will spread the small root globules around the paddock and each one grows.

This message is dated Wednesday 24th April 2013 for Maidenhead. To coincide with the TVP re-launch of Country Watch, PC Howard Rose and PCSO Liz Davidson have organised an event where TVP will be represented at the Berkshire College of Agriculture open weekend on the 27th and 28th April, in...

This message is dated Wednesday 24th April 2013 for Maidenhead. To coincide with the TVP re-launch of Country Watch, PC Howard Rose and PCSO Liz Davidson have organised an event where TVP will be represented at the Berkshire College of Agriculture open weekend on the 27th and 28th April, in...

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