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Where can you buy tiger lilies? I cant seem to find these anywhere! |
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Electrical Q re Earthing. I have a lot of radio gear that is all 2 wire, no earth connection, other than the extensive and totally separate earthing system that is for the radio gear. Should I bond this to the mains earth peg, which is just a single stake.Or should I r |
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Concrete Would anyone know the cube of a bag of pre mixed concrete! (i.e. in litres, cc or fraction of a cubic meter). Thanks. |
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Stain for wood made from natural things Hi I am trying to stain some pine to a darker colour, someone said tea ok tried it but not dark enough fact even 100 coats I don't think would do it.but then no one actually said how many tea bags to how much water or should I be using tea leaf I did ... |
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Tomatoes not turning red? Hi all, i have planted a tomatoe plant(s) for the first time and it is huge, it has lots of massive tomatoes, but they have'nt turned red! Is there something wrong! I fertilise them once a week and water every night. . The fruit have been there for ab... |
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Gorilla Glue Gun cleaner .HELP Does anyone have a clever idea on how to get the hard NAILPOWER glue out of my Gorilla Glue gun. Have tried Acetone and a few other thinners but it doesn't seem to do anything. |
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Weird flowering plant. Have had these plants for YEARS.but all of a sudden this one has started sprouting a rather stranger.flower! Is anyone on here familiar with this plant! http://www. |
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Fridge/freezer Probs Hello, have a Boche fridge - has freezer on top. the top two tiers seem to have lost it's 'freezing' capabilities! anyone have any idea why this would happen. It's not stuffed with food - any ideas who much it would cost for a repair perso... |
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What bird make this type of call? Just like the sound of a bell, pealed once. The call is made 5-10 seconds apart. I heard this sound alot while at Healsville Bird Scantuary, the air was full of the sounds, but I never identified the bird. I dont think it the Bellbird, from th |
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Manure for acid loving trees hi fellow gardeners, Im after a manure that i can use around acid loving plants , any ideas |
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Glue for mending shoes? Sick of spending a fortune getting soles stuck back on shoes could someone suggest a glue i could buy to do the job thanks |
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Repotting a gardenia plant , do any nurseries Do this in christchurch please! It's really struggling and would love to see itrepotted properlyTia |
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Feijoas - Bugs & Feeding feed them with a fruit tree fert, they are usually hardy to being attacked by insects, if the holes are in the middle of the leaves and0 round, it could be shotholefungus hope this helps a bit. |
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Zucchini - flowering but dropping flowers ? I have raised beds and 1 is a large bed what is happening is a little hard to explain but on one side of the X shaped raised garden bed the flowers are coming but not opening 100% and then when you touch the flower or wind infact does it the flower bud &q... |
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Installing home theatre wall plate. Just curious if anyone has any advice or warnings before I install a wall plate for our home theatre cables to send them up into the roof cavity then along and back down to each ceiling mounted satellite speaker. It has an hdmi slot with a simple female h... |
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Plants for wet areas part of our garden gets flooded and if it rains for a couple of days it can be underwater for a few days are there any flowers plant that i can use to "soak up"some of the water |
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Plant ID.does anyone know what this is? Looks like the adult form of Hedera helix, otherwise known as ivy. http://www.rnzih.org.nz/pages/u94830_2.pdf is helpful. Can be very time consuming to get rid o |
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Does pumpkin ripen off the vine? I went outside this morning to find one of my pumpkins on the ground.The vine had grown up a fence and I think the fruit just got too heavy and snapped off (possibly with the wind).It was one of the better ones too.the question is will it ripen!I thought ... |
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Red Onions When are they ready to harvest! Do you turn the tops over to stop them from going to seed! I have never grown them before! |
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Grisalinia's Dying!? Ahhh the middle plant in our hedge is dying and the one on the side of it looks like its going also, We are gutted!Can it have a contagious disease!Why would it be dying - its all black and not happy! |
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How to get tar off wood floor Hi there we have pulled up our old lino and have found tar under it, has anyone had this and what worked for you to get it off! Thanks |
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Bean seeds from my plant Have a handful of black beans from my bean plants. the beans dried up and i saved the seeds. what do i do with them later on.! thanks |
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When can I plant red robin hedge? Time of year. |
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Borrer control H1 Treated timber Toxic? I own an old building with borrer, and am renovating it, we are putting in a lot of new internal walls. Should we use H1 trated to keep the borrer away! Any natural products! The Toxic H1 timber framing might be better than a bug bomb e |
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Hot Water Continuous gas hot water system with bottles or electric hot water, pros and cons of both please. |
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