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Gardening Myth Busting

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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    If you have mole hills it's probably only one or two moles causing them.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Liz.S.Liz.S. Posts: 55
    edited May 2018
    Wasps are your enemy, kill them on sight!
    "Life returns. Life prevails. Resistance is futile" Rusty the dalek
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Mosquitoes don't like to breed in moving water.


  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    You must dig a trench and fill with compost and manure for runner beans (not) 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    That water wicks in soil - if you put a pot of earth in a saucer or tub of water, the water will rise near the top of the pot. It really depends on all sorts of things but it is a surprisingly ill-founded rule of thumb.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    No matter how dead a plant looks, if you scratch the bark and see something green it will be OK


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Green MagpieGreen Magpie Posts: 806
    Using broken-up polystyrene is a good substitute for rocks or broken pots to provide drainage at the bottom of your planters. (The key feature of polystyrene is that, unlike rocks, it floats, so if your planter is flooded with rain, the polystyrene floats to the top)
  • Green MagpieGreen Magpie Posts: 806
    Oh, and another one: a compost heap has to be turned regularly. (Just leave it for a year. It'll be fine.)
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Putting down two overlapping layers of thick cardboard at the bottom of a new raised bed stops perennial weeds  - not here it doesn’t!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Green Magpie said:
    Oh, and another one: a compost heap has to be turned regularly. (Just leave it for a year. It'll be fine.)
    If it's been stacked properly , yes, but otherwise, if you turn it , it'll be ready in a much shorter time.
    Devon.
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