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26 postsBypass for living wood, anvil for dead: why the design decides how the wound heals. Plus geared or ratchet loppers, hedge shears by hand or by motor, the right size for your hand, and the care that keeps a pair going for twenty years.
Not every herb overwinters the same. Sort them into three groups: hardy perennials stay outside, half-hardy come in cool and bright, sensitive ones you resow.
Yellow leaves on citrus are almost never thirst. How to read the yellow correctly, counter it with soft water and citrus fertiliser and spot scale insects early.
Shortly after flowering, whole shoot tips of the sour cherry wilt and die brown. It looks like late frost but is Monilia blossom blight. How to tell the two apart and why cutting back well into the healthy wood is the key.
Fruit that rots brown on the tree and carries pale spore cushions in rings: brown rot. Why the fungus enters almost only through wounds, why the overwintering mummified fruit is the key, and how to curb the rot without sprays.
In spring the peach leaves blister, curl and turn red: peach leaf curl. Why you can fight it only before leaf-out, how a rain roof protects the tree, and which varieties shrug off the attack better.
Fire blight is the most dangerous pome fruit disease and notifiable. How to recognise the suddenly scorched-looking shoots with the typical shepherds crook, why you must not prune yourself, and what to do on suspicion.
Brown patches on apples and foliage: apple scab is almost unavoidable in wet years. How to recognise it on leaf and fruit, why scab-resistant varieties save all spraying in the home garden, and what else helps.
A layer of mulch saves water, slows weeds and builds humus. But mulch is not just mulch: why fresh grass clippings rot, why bark does not belong on the vegetable bed, and how the right material in the right place protects your soil.
