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Can anyone tell me please where I can purchase some old 6 inch floorboards, or Scaffold Boards about 8 - 10 feet long in the Beds/Bucks/Herts area. I am looking to use them for shuttering.

Mmmmmmmmm perhaps it would have helped if I had explained that I used a cheap grass seed, with rye grass I think, that didn't give a good quality lawn. After all I was going to dig it up after 18 months anyway so I wasn't looking for a bowling green, so it was a kind of green fertiliser...

It sounds very much like 'sun scorching' to me. Remember these plants like to be in the cool shade, never in full or half sun. In Victorian and Edwardian times these were kept in a dark (ish) parlour with thick curtains and so rarely saw any full sun. My old Granmother had a beautiful...

You could put some top soil on I suppose but all I did was to 'broadcast' a reasonable quality grass seed by hand having first turned over the soil to a depth of about an inch with a 'Chillington Hoe'. Once the seed had germinated I cut the grass quite close with a hover mower at least once a...

If it's any help I had this problem a few years ago in the garden of my previous home and an old 'professional' gardener told me the trick was to sow grass seed ove the whole lot. The constant cutting of the grass would eventually kill it because no plant likes to be constantly cut back close...

Brilliant! Thanks guys for the information! I've learnt something today! What a fantastic mine of information this site is, I shall certyainly tell all my friends and family about it!

No there is no plug at all. They are all 'single skin' radiatiors with the fins on the back, the only inlet and outlet is at the bottom where the valves attach!

I have a query concerning gas fired central heating radiators. I recently moved into a new bungalow and need to temporarily remove a radiator to make good the wall plaster and redecorate the room. However I noticed that the radiator does not have a bleed valve, in fact none of my radiators...