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Definately, try Osmocote, expensive but very good stuff. Still requires an occasional maintenance to keep up.

Well with only weeks to go until the world cup I hope I'm proved wrong and Sven's eleven goes all the way. Funny old deal though, keep him until he's taken on the biggest competition in footy, then dump him. So who will replace him?

Latest I've heard is from a handy little prog on R4 called 'five holes in the ground' Seems the Icelanders plan to did even deeper holes, use the super steam to power turbines and produce hydrogen fuel cells to export to Ken in London to power the new eco buses.

Hi wonder if anyone has any experience of rammed earth walls? The sort seen at Eden project and now used on certain eco house projects as a breathable, natural wall structure and more traditionally in cobb walls. I'd like to know how strong they are for fixing to and how to get the best...

Hi I'd like to share a few thoughts about a large (120,000 litre) rain harvesting project we are working on at out home. We have the potential for storing up to 120,000 litres. The nice garden we've created turns out to be a very costly thing to irrigate through the year. Also with global...

You may have heard the great news about todays bestselling book.... Is It Just Me or Is Everything ****?: The Encyclopedia of Modern Life I wonder how others feel about this? I think there is a very important message with this stuff, and I intend to buy it though I've heard it is not...

Trouble is you'd need so much salt it would start rotting everything in sight. I would stick with the wand myself ('therapeutic' is an interesting way to put the real satisfaction that comes from seeing the buggers burn!) and the use of a handy little tool that looks like a hollow dibber on a...

In France ..... (do I hear a moan or is that a groan?) they sell a great concrete block that is intended for just such use. It is perforated for infill with whatever you choose, gravel, grass, whatever. It is strong and withstands the weight of most household cars/uses. It is also large enough...

Hey this is good, many thanks.

Many won't! really depends on so many factors that this is a bit of a misleading statement altogether. Species is only one. Environment is probably even more important given that the council have got involved and probably the biggest influence on this is nothing to do with the tree itself but...

Hi great little system, barebone bought with .... Asus T2-AE1 Athlon64 SKT754 SIS760GX Audio LAN Mirage (90pb53aa010000aecz) AMD (Newcastle) Athlon 64bit 3200+ 512kb L2cache 754pin Kingston 512MB DDR PC3200 400MHz CL3 Memory Module, only the one! and a Western Digital WD800JD Caviar SE...

Hi alas councils now take a harder line with this problem. The 'problem' being that someone wants to do something to a tree! Before you could have expected some understanding but now they use protection orders for alsorts of ends. I know of someone who had orders placed onto trees to...

Hi I've just bought a new system and need to understand a bit about setting clock speeds. I bought a 400 mhz dimm but the updated Bios won't let me set the speed to above 250mhz. is there something I've missed? Maybe I bought the wrong dimm and need to replace it with something...

hey, sounds like there is some hope. I do run the ad software which is essential. However as this problem has only got worse and worse over time even though I've been forwarding to a dump it has only got steadily worse. it seems funny how they pick up on a certain email address. I'm...

the problem is that height, you'll have a job making anything 7 foot high stand. best to buy a preformed fence post and render it over to get the look you want. you can render using soft sand with a little sharp and with a pair of rubber gloves build up from the base a bit at a time. wet...

if it's that near it should go. It'll destore the house in no time as they grow mad. I wouldn't make any attempt to keep it as there are plenty of shrubs, climbers and even trees that won't do the damage that willow does. If you try to keep it you'll regret it. If you like the tree take...

If it is darkish try a great little plant called 'mind your own business'. Low and not offensive. It spreads really well in one season so a few pots will go a long way, gently break it into small clumps and keep well watered for awhile. It goes very well with ferns and looks great on humps...

Hi If you've got a good, solid, even and level (or very slight incline) path you could use a smaller joist (in depth). This is because you have good support beneath and so don't need the strength of the extra wood. I would suggest trying several sizes to see how it works and finding the...

Hi JT You helped me with some advice.....'email hijack makes life a mess', so I thought I may help you out a little. As it happens I've recently done up my mothers bathroom which was modern build but very similar. She had a very tight (read non existent) budget so I came up with a...

I have several email addresses and this one is the email for the domain that I really need to find a way to protect if at all possible. My domain registry only allows for one forwarding but even if it did allow for more I could not keep up with the level of hiking going on with it. ta