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lindsey @ Eden Project
If you need to get rid of bugs, soapy water helps but is a bit labour intensive, there are organic slug pellets available which help with one of the major pests and you can find out more info at gardenorganic.org.uk have fun !!
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srphillips
we used nematodes on our garden, kills all the baby slugs before they can eat your lovely veggies, and worked really well
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shaynehouse
Never use pesticides. Use the no dig approach to vegetable beds, it stops the weeds spreading, simply hoe weeds from the patch on a regular basis.
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chalex90
Baked egg shells to keep slugs off. Maybe rescue an orphaned hedgehog to up the ante, theres plenty looking for a good home. Get on to the Battery Hen rescue center and save a couple of chickens.nRemember to set up a good composting area. Any food scraps etc can either go to the chickens or straight into the compost. Urine is a good additive to the compost. Depends how comfortable you feel doing that.nThe rest is about garden an plant management. nIf you can leave an area, however small, in your garden that can be made into a kind of unkept meadow area with a variety of flowers and grasses. This will do you no end of good by attracting lots of different insects, most of which pollenating. If your lucky some ladybugs to keep the aphids.nTry and find somewhere thats selling composted horse manure (might take a drive to the country to find it). This is brilliant for the growing stages of all plants due to the nitrogen. When digging your garden over before putting the plants in spreads this over the top and dig it in.nThen as has already been said, take weeds out regularly.nnYou might want to set up a small poly tunnel for more exotic varieties or for some amazing tomatoes.nnIt takes a little bit more work than the simple pesticide and chemical fertiliser option but promotes a healthy area for a small eco system to exist (give it a couple of years and you'll notice a lot more birds and wildlife hanging around your garden) and i think the fruit tastes nicer with out chemicals. This might just be my heavily organic biased opinion tho :PnnEnjoy
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lindsey @ Eden Project
needs help with I need some help with research and evaluation techniques
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Robyn
needs help with Slugs and snails are gobbling up everything in sight in my garden. Are there any nice friendly (but effective) organic methods i can use to keep them off my tomatoes instead of buying slug pellets?
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Timo
Have you tried using the honey trap method. Sink an empty jam jar into the ground, half fill it with lager/beer, and the slugs and snails should throw themselves into it. Otherwise, there are slug pellets "suitable for organic gardening" They contain ferric phosphate which occurs naturally in the environment, and degrades into iron and phosphate which is good for the soil quality.
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Robyn
Great, thank you - now you've said it I remember my Gran used to do that with my Uncle's home brew, seem to remember it being very effective!
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lindsey @ Eden Project
Hi Robyn, if your tomatoes are in pots it might be worth getting the pot hoisters (not the technical term but its still early!) so they stand an inch or so off the ground. You could also try putting gravel around the base of the plants as they are not too keen on sliding over the sharp pointy stones. Finally copper rings or a weed suppressant fabric with copper in seems to work... the slugs and snails get a small electric shock or similar so 'run' the other way. The beer thing definitely works but i used to get really queasy emptying it out!!
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peridyne62
Beer, coffee grounds, or human hair will stop them (they don't like beer, or coffee, and human hair will tangle / strangle them. TOADS EAT SLUGS. You could always just introduce a family of friendly hopping toads to your garden.
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jarainford
needs help with For a uni project I want to make flower boxes for a hospital, I need help with the types of plants which grow well in containers, either inside or outside and need minimal looking after.
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Little_Balcony
needs help with I'd like to do some voluntary gardening work in North West London, can anyone help?
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Nina.Whitby
I was researching something else last week and came across this website http://vinspired.com/ - looked pretty useful.
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lindsey @ Eden Project
Hi Little Balcony - love the idea of your book! Not sure if it is quite what you are after but its worth looking at the wildlife trust http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/Volunteering/Volunteer/VolunteeringinnorthLondon/ They might have something that links gardening activity with some of their educational programmes :-)
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Smita Bernadet Kujur
needs help with I want to work for conservation of endangered species of Orchids with financial help, Please guide me about Orchid specialists who have similar interests. I need a good guide.
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lindsey @ Eden Project
Hi Smita, Have you tried contacting Orchid Conservation International...? Here is their website http://www.orchidconservation.org/index.html They do a lot of work and have lots of links to other organisations who do conservation work with orchids. I would contact them and maybe they can point you in the right direction. Good luck!
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Smita Bernadet Kujur
I am obliged for your guidance Lindsey. I will check this website .
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Smita Bernadet Kujur
I tried to contact OCI as you suggested, but they didn't reply may email . I will keep trying though.
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peridyne62
needs help with I need help building my resume. I assume the one i have already is not adequate. I also need help figuring out what jobs to apply for and what companies i should be looking at
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Bran
Hi When you say that your resume isn't adequate I am assuming that you feel it hasn't done you any favours on the getting a job front. I'm not an expert and without seeing it I cannot comment on your particular resume but I do get to see a lot from young poeple and here are few thoughts. Most people have a huge range of skills and assets to offer its just a case of making them stand out. Have a look at other people that you know and see what they have done but be yourself and make sure that you get across your unique qualities. Don't give up, its hard being young in a job market full of experience but its very rare that persistance and a 'go get it attitude' remains unrewarded for long. The other thing to note is that just because you weren't the right person for that particular job it doesn't mean that you were in any way second best, I have had to turn away perfectly capable applicants just because they aren't quite who we needed at that time so don't give up! Good luck, the more doors you push against the more likely one will swing wide open for you. Bran
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