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Tomato seeds how do I dry tomato seeds |
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Dreaming of home grown blueberries. I bought a couple of plants the other day. They're only around 10 inches high at present. What year/century can I expect to be picking yummy fresh and succulent blueberries? |
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I am going to plant a Hibiscus and some I see are lovely and bushy and others are just stalky. Any hints on these? |
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An electrician for a day Does anyone have any idea of the hourly rate for an electrician in New Plymouth? We are changing many of the light fittings in the house and I am guessing it will be a full day's work. |
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Freesia Seedlings - What do they look like? Hi there, am growing for the first time in the garden, they appear to have taken off or is grass popping up everywhere? After about 3 weeks growth it looks like grass shoots. But when I pull one up there is a small seed at the base, but it does not look l... |
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Filling a trench.water pipes etc We are having a sleepout built, with bathroom/toilet. A trench was dug for all the relevant pipes/water/electric. my question is, when they go to fill this trench back up are they supposed to fill it first with a good layer of scoring (or similar) or can ... |
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Hot water overflow pipe running My neighbour popped over to tell me our pipe was running down the roof. How does one stop this or do we need to contact a plumber? |
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Hot water - heater/booster - options Our kitchen is just about at the furthest point possible from the gas hot water cylinder. We have to draw off a lot of water before we get the hot coming through. Is there a simple (instant?) electric heater that can be plumbed into the hot water supply (... |
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House wireing crossed up - WTH ? I need to relocate the outlet for the fridge and found that I had to turn off two circuit breakers on the distribution board to isolate the outlet. I opened up the distribution board and all looked normal - with the wires from each of the circ |
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Cutting firebricks, how would you do it? Howdy guys, Bought some new firebricks to replace the broken ones in our woodburner and unfortunately they are 5mm too big! The bricks are 230 x 115 x 25mm and it is the 230mm dimension I need adjusted. What would you recommend to |
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Pumpkin Problem Getting very frustrated - planted pumpkin seed for the very first time and everything was going extremely well (or so I thought). Lots of flowers but now the flowers are dropping off the plants so obviously they are not being fertilised. Is there somethin... |
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Summer Grass.when and how? . to eliminate. I have patches through my lawns up to about 1200mm diameter, tho mostly 750 - 900mm. I seem to remember there is a specific spray, but is applied mid winter when the summer grass is not apparent. How best to mark the patches, and wha |
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Englefield Duo II vs Pacific Clearlite Bath Tub Hi, for a shower over bath, with low water pressure situation, can someone tell me which bath is better please? what's the quality difference, and is that worth the extra price? thank you. |
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Removing Vinyl & the Glue Underneath It. Anyone know the best way to do this, especially getting rid of the glue under the vinyl ? |
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Sounds like the cats puling the carpet But hes snoozing under the covers, me too, but the wife hears a noise like that in the middle of the night. We googled "carpet beetles" but they don't have that sound, and we didn't see any carpet beetle signs as per google. Everything seems n |
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Neem oil Can anyone give us the amount of oil per litre of water for spraying plants for bugs please-the label has faded far too much to be able to read it! |
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When to prune black currants? Is it too early to prune black and red currants? Mine are looking untidy and I am itching to take the secateurs to them as part of my tidy-up for winter regime. |
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Wanting to plant a pohutukawa I saw some baby ones yesterday and dismissed the idea as, who has room. But then, this morning I thought actually maybe we do have room in one particular spot, so long as there's nothing under the yard that the roots could wreck. How can you check out whe... |
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Kill off roots of dead pine tree I am trying to convert an area on our section into a garden. Unfortunately not far from the area there was an old dying pine tree we had chopped down but its extensive root system still remains in place. You can't dig two shovels full before you hit a roo... |
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Obtaining steel/brass/copper/alu swarf in Chch? Anyone know where I can get some metal swarf from? Not a lot, maybe a kilo at most. Not too chunky. Mixed metal is fine. Any ideas? |
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Wallpaper seams need sticking down What's the best way to do this thanks. Only a few in the room, not all. I don't want to strip room etc as its a spare room, pretty much used for freezer, storage etc, but will also have a bed in there if needed. Thinking of just painting (it's |
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Cabbage trees can you chop down cabbage trees on your property? Somewhere in the back of my mind something is saying cannot do. Anyone. |
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How to blacken a free standing Fire Flue We have a free standing Kent Wood Fire Place. The black flue is not as dark and there are some marks on it like its rubbing off. I remember when I was younger my mother would use a product on our Pot Belly to keep it black. Is there a product that can be ... |
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"Help please" anybody know how to get rid of this Hi all, I have got this pesky creepy plant all through my lawn, NEVER used to have it but somehow it appeared a year or so ago and now seems to want to take over my whole lawn. Anybody know WHAT IT IS and is there a spray I can use to eradicat |
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Tamarillo Tree Planted a tamarillo tree orange variety a few months back. Has grown well and I have kept it well watered and fed with fertiliser. The red variety tamarillo I planted at the same time, does not have yellowing leaves. Anyone know why leaves turning yellow?... |
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