Ask Alys
Got a question for our gardening expert Alys Fowler? Email askalys@theguardian.com. Chosen problems will appear in Saturday's Guardian Weekend magazine and on the Guardian gardening blog: if your query is to feature, we will let you know. Please note Alys is unable to reply personally to every email.
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By far the quickest solution would be just to put the moss on the compost heap, but replanting may be worth a punt
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The population of long-tailed field mice can explode quickly, but they are an important source of food for barn owls
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I want to brighten up our wild hedge without needing to prune
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I’d give up, too, if I was forced to live in a bed with a bamboo, euphorbia and a cordyline
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Waterlogged earth and the sensitivities of a cemetery call for periwinkles and primulas, says our expert
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How easy is it to move asparagus plants to a new plot? Alys Fowler answers readers’ questions
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I’d love to fill our pond with plants, but they’d be consumed by the green peril
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Yew is toxic, but does that mean it shouldn’t be composted? Our gardening guru has the answer
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Alys Fowler digs into our virtual postbag of gardening questions from listeners and readers
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Buy a mattock, borrow a wrecking bar, bring out any semi-useless old saws (they’ll be heading for the dump after this), and put on a pair of thick gloves, strong boots and your oldest jeans
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It’s all very well being enthusiastic, but you also need to be realistic
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‘Agapanthus likes to be hugged very tightly and baked in the sun in a very small pot’
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‘Cover it with something to keep the rain off. Some people use upturned dustbins’
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‘It is probably not a great deal of laughs if you are a small insect intending to hibernate under the pile of leaves about to be blown away’
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‘You’ll have more luck with perennial plants than shrubs’
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‘Can you suggest something that would thrive in verges and hedgerows?’
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‘Drastic pruning needs to be done when the rose is dormant’
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‘Every June when it rains, my honeysuckle gets covered in grey mould’
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‘We want edible plants to green our garage wall and add interest over winter’
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‘We want to plant a tree in a large pot to mark the birth of our first child’
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Alys and Jane tackle your thorny gardening questions in the last of our series, plus a rap song to the much-maligned garden slug
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‘Will perennial kale continue to produce after it has gone to seed?’
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What to plant in a north-facing window box, and how to keep it alive
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Should I add charcoal to my soil? Alys Fowler has the answer
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Alys Fowler and Jane Perrone host our gardening podcast packed full of insight and inspiration for all you green-thumbs
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Eek – I forgot to separate autumn- from summer-fruiting raspberries
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How can I get rid of the whitefly on my indoor chilli plants?
Ask Alys Fowler: I have a very wet clay garden that gets full sun. What can I plant?