Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Bordeaux mixture has been banned by the EU since end of 2015. You might find it hard to get hold of. You can make it up yourself but I wouldn't bother. Copper content is high - not something you want getting into the soil/into your food. Never really understood how it could be termed organic.

As an alternative (that helps a little bit) you can increase the airflow between plants by removing the lower leaves once the fruit appears. This will also help them ripen as they'll get more sunlight.

Woke up this morning to find, what I suspect is a fox, hasn't appreciated my gardening efforts. Completely chewed through my passion flower at the ground. Destroyed my herb planter and ripped up my dahlias. To add insult to injury it's done a poo on my doorstep!

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Hi because my tom's are on my allotment and sometimes I only get there at weekends I pick alot of them before their ripe, I just put them in a bold with the pears I've also picked early,

I find the only way to stop blight is to burnt them, but be sure its blight as there can be other blight looking patches that can appear on tomatoes, something you can do when planting is to give your plants room and when growing pick off the lower leaves which help air pass between the plants, there was a copper based product I used to spray yearly which did help, think its probably banned, maybe had too much copper in it, Some years when its less wet are better and think there was one maybe two blight free, been on an allotment I always get blight especially with my outdoor plants so I try and grow early and harvest everything before blight attacks, I then ripen the fruits at home with some careful inspections, I'm still alive so maybe its not as dangerous as we are lead to believe,

P.S just read the other answers so nothing new from my post, (yes I was referring to Bordeax forgot what it was called), also confussed why this was organic friendly.

Holy poops! What a little fucker.

Apart from the obvious, take away their spade

...take away their spade

Having re-turfed the back garden last summer, I've spent a reasonable amount of time making sure any weeds that are present are dug out before spreading - have recently found 'stronger' ones that, on digging out, are sprouting from what look like almonds/hazelnuts.

Stood in the lounge yesterday I spotted one of two squirrels taking these in their mouth, scampering to the lawn, digging a hole, planting said nuts before patting down the earth...little f*cker!

That sucks. Look into liberally applying chili pepper powder over the bed. Think cayenne. One snoutful and they tend to avoid the area. Needs to be dry obviously.

Yeah that's what I usually do to deter squirrels from my containers. Thankfully I recently bought too much chilli powder so will sprinkle the garden tonight.

I'm getting deja vu about liberal application of chilli powder in ones garden.
Have we discussed this before?

Thats a lot of chili pepper powder.

Shit on your doorstep? There's an LFGSS fox out there. Check the lawn for frozen sausages.

Have you considered growning cordons as opposed to espalliers both very nice but if you want more for the same space I'd go with cordons, you can also get duel fruit trees maybe worth considering, looks great BTW

Hey all, foxes squirrels its called wild life seat back and enjoy you chilli powder heads

Does anyone know what this is? Not growing in our garden but was advised to ask here:

I was looking at them in the Nursery at the weekend. Ruled them out as I have a lot of width to play with so would rather go long and low. Good suggestion for smaller gardens though.

No worries, I would perhaps grow pears on seat side they are bit hardier than apples,

I've had endless problems with foxes. They are super annoying. I haven't had much luck with chilli powder, or other deterrents for that matter.

Tbh, I would happily reintroduce localised fox hunting if that were an option.

I came here to ask if there is anything I can do about foxes too.

I love the furry little arseholes, but going out into the garden to clean up their shits every morning before my son can play is getting on my tits.

The only moderately effective deterrent i have found is the sprayer things - waters the lawn as well:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Defenders-Jet-Spray-Repeller-Squirrel-Deterrent/dp/B01DACLHT2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503906933&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=garden+fox+deterrent&psc=1

What's the best way to kill my neighbors cat?
Or at least stop the bastard shitting in my garden.

Probably poison, unless you want to go to the hassle of snaring it.
Then you could strangle it or slit it's throat.

See above - works for cats as well as foxes; is legal and doesn't harm the creatures.

In the past I've used a Yukon style bear trap with sharpened teeth and springs from an old Ferrari. I tend to use an open tin of prime John West tuna in the jaws as bait.
If you have a slightly larger garden with stout fences, anti - personnel mines.