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My cabbages have eggs and caterpillars all over them and sprouts are lie skeletons! I am so disappointed.

I purchased two treble-planked raised beds about 5 years ago which were serving me well until the past two years. This year has had the poorest results possible! Failed crops of veg in spite of watering well every evening and feeding once a week forking new compost in too every year.

I was wondering if it is possible to erect small temporary green house, tall enough to shelter shrubs in winter

I have a 6ft fence on which I hope to put an armandi clematis. Is the starter gripple kit suitable for the job? Do I require anything else to do the job? What are these vine eyes a reviewer mentions

This year my peach tree got peach curl for the first time. I did try a spray from the garden centre but it didn?t work. What can I use to keep my tree happy and healthy?

I currently have hundreds of beetles emerging from my lawn

Some yellowing on the the plant's lower leaves, a bit higher up the plant than normal.

My runner beans are covered in black fly

When I have looked at images of vegetables growing in raised beds, they appear to be slightly closer together than traditionally grown vegetables - is this just the way I am seeing them, or is it that the deeper the raised bed the closer they are planted?