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Our neighbour recently installed a wildlife deterrent device in her garden and the noise is driving us (29/30yos) insane

She bought it because she had a fox come into her kitchen, which scared her. She’s also worried about squirrels and rats. She elderly, lives alone, and has hearing problems so she can’t hear the device at all.

At first the noise was a long high-pitched tone, but recently it’s changed to a loud “beep beep beep beep” sound every 30 seconds. It completely fries my head and is causing a massive nuisance. We can hear it throughout our garden, in the living room, bedroom, through closed windows, and it has woken me up

We left her a note telling her about the disturbance and she invited us round to adjust the settings, so my partner went over. They turned the sensitivity down from 5 to 2, and the setting was changed from all animals to just foxes/cats/dogs/rodents. It is still triggering constantly even when there are no animals there.

We still see foxes and the magpies clearly aren’t bothered… but it’s proving tough to convince her to bin it entirely. We’re not trying to be difficult because she’s been friendly and we understand why she bought it, but equally it’s becoming really frustrating having a high-pitched noise going off all day that we can hear inside our home.

Has anyone dealt with these before? Are some people just able to hear them even when they’re working properly? If she refuses to get rid have we got any routes to legal action?

just showing off this juicy treat :)

Had this snapdragon pop up in my front garden over the last few weeks, didn’t plant it and thought it was a weed. It was on my list of plants to de-weed before it flowered. Chuffed. Out of no where.

Hi r/GardeningUK! I'm currently in the process of purchasing this house. I'm not a huge gardener, my current house is basically mow the lawn and trim hedges, but do try and keep stuff well maintained & tidy etc. What am I in for with this garden? Any advice and honest opinions would be highly appreciated.

Please note the pond bit (side of the house) is currently empty and I'm planning on eventually breaking & filling it to make it raised bed instead.

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Hello, I’ve moved into a new house and am hoping to start a herb and veg garden (beginner gardener!). As it’s a rented property and the ground is pebbles I’ve been building planters (119cm x 39cm x 21cm, got one so far, hoping for 2-3 total but also want to save space for some seating, table and fire pit). I also got this little greenhouse off of Amazon each shelf is 50cm x 44cm x 30cm, there are 4 shelves. Will also probably grab some pots of various sizes and I have a small bit of windowsill space.

I’ve got a basic understanding of herbalism and an idea of what I’d like to grow, where I’m getting really stumped is the getting started, things like timings and groupings of planting (I know to keep any mint family in its own separate pot.). It’s currently early July, in south west England, I know it’s late in the year for a lot of things but I’m happy to buy already flowering plants. Also is it possible to create an all year around medicinal garden? Any advice or feedback on how to make the garden as effective and nourishing as possible would be super duper appreciated!

Important info; the garden is north east facing, the red half is shaded all day, the pink quarter gets sun from sun up til down, and the blue quarter gets sun until the late afternoon.

Some ideas for plants I’d like to grow (I know not all will be possible!! Just some inspo, also super open to suggestions); Tomatoes, strawberries, Ginger, garlic, shallots, mint, lemon balm, chamomile, dandelion, calendula, rose, aloe Vera, coriander, rosemary, thyme, turmeric, yarrow, valerian, mugwort, holy basil, mother wort, skullcap, marshmallow/mallow, juniper, feverfew, mullein, passionflower, hyssop, kratom, catnip, wormwood, onions, winter salad. (Maybe some nice trees that could be potted?)

Thank you so much! Been trying a lot of research through books and the internet but I feel a bit overwhelmed/overloaded and also am dubious that a lot of the timings in the older books will no longer hold true.

This grown through my fence over the past few weeks. As you can see there's a patch on my neighbours side. Should I just cut it at the base of the stem? Do I need to be worried about it trying to get through more?

Edit: 2nd and 3rd pics are in my neighbours garden. Only 1st pic is in mine.

Four cherry trees in the garden - one of them has a lot of branches where it looks like the leaves have been eaten from each side. (None of the others are affected, nor is the apple tree right next to chomped cherry.) any ideas please, kind community?

I'm not very experienced when it comes to gardening or diy, but am very willing to give things a go here. What should I do to improve the way this looks? Ideas I have had are to use the same tiling down the face or to create a gentle slope using soil from the patio down to the main level of the lawn. What do you think? Other ideas are very welcome. Thanks.

My wife noticed that this and one other (melody) potato plant are starting to shrivel. We planted in beginning of May so i think its much to early for them to be harvested. This plants soil does look a little dry today, though they were watered yesterday, any ideas?

Hi all.

Slugs have been eating the stem of my sunflower pretty bad so i used some wool as a protective measure to cover the base of the stem a few nights ago.

Today, one of the sunflowers does not look so great and i’m wondering if this could be doing more harm than good. Or could this be pointing to another issue?

They get watered every evening so nothing has changed in that area.

Thanks

I have no idea when it comes to plants! I just need some help. I’m thinking of ripping out the plant on the left and most definitely digging up the roots in the middle (Lilly’s) as they’re poisonous to my dogs. I’m thinking of some sort of tree to replace the plant on the left? But what? Please help!

I'm still very much in the early stages of my gardening but have noticed these little bitches have taken over my lawn the last couple of years.

My house is a new build(ish - it's a refurbished 60s house but has the same rubble-filled, 1cm of topsoil garden as any modern new build because developers). I've not really planted anything except for one hydrangea and a heebee. The grass was pretty nice when we moved in 2 years ago but now dies as soon as it gets sunny and is more weed than grass- unsure if this is because of the soil quality or my new friends.

When you walk over the grass you can see them jumping all over the place, and I can hear them all day. I guess I have three questions:

1. Are they causing my grass to die?

2. Do I need to be worried about planting anything else (which i plan to be doing when we get a heatwave break), lest they eat it?

3. Do I need to get rid? Cool if not.

We have hedgehogs and quite a lot of local birds if these are any considerations

TIA!