Could you, for now, use something like that rush matting to up the fence height? Bamboo planting is quite an undertaking if you're taking the necessary precautions (because even clumping can take over quite a bit). I love bamboo but I keep mine in pots. They get divided up every year or two to get more plants and give them more toe-wiggle-room. Also, as I didn't know this, don't go with the ultra trendy black bamboo if it's windy where you are. The leaves go a horrid pale yellow-green because it doesn't like being in an exposed position. "creeping chamomile seeds" - There's no creeping chamomile seeds because teangue chamomile doesn't flower so there's no seeds. It's one of those annoying herbs that must be vegetatively propagated. Rust - flame thrower. I bought a weed burner to burn my mint because it has rust on it. You can get mildew(powdery)resistant varieties of marrows/courgettes/squashes. Have you looked into tumbler composters? The council here has them for £20-£30, which isn't a bad price for them. They absolutely work miracles and we don't even go down to tumble it every day like you should do (oops). Still composes very quickly. Are you putting in enough dry material? My main source of dry stuff is my hamster/chinchilla bedding which is made from Megazorb (sort of waste paper product in little nubs). Check the rosemary plants to see if they're potbound. Mine look a little yellowysickly at the moment because it's been ages since they had their roots trimmed and been repotted.
Still have to divide up that cheap spiderplant I bought from Homebase.. We have some ivy growing at the allotment but I'm not exactly sure of its source... it's just covering up a treestump and before that was a tree stump, it must have just been growing up the trunk of the tree. It's varigated though.
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Date: 2006-09-14 08:13 am (UTC)"creeping chamomile seeds" - There's no creeping chamomile seeds because teangue chamomile doesn't flower so there's no seeds. It's one of those annoying herbs that must be vegetatively propagated.
Rust - flame thrower. I bought a weed burner to burn my mint because it has rust on it. You can get mildew(powdery)resistant varieties of marrows/courgettes/squashes.
Have you looked into tumbler composters? The council here has them for £20-£30, which isn't a bad price for them. They absolutely work miracles and we don't even go down to tumble it every day like you should do (oops). Still composes very quickly. Are you putting in enough dry material? My main source of dry stuff is my hamster/chinchilla bedding which is made from Megazorb (sort of waste paper product in little nubs).
Check the rosemary plants to see if they're potbound. Mine look a little yellowysickly at the moment because it's been ages since they had their roots trimmed and been repotted.
Still have to divide up that cheap spiderplant I bought from Homebase.. We have some ivy growing at the allotment but I'm not exactly sure of its source... it's just covering up a treestump and before that was a tree stump, it must have just been growing up the trunk of the tree. It's varigated though.