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A very light rain, better than nothing, it will freshen the leaves but it will only take 10 minutes of sunshine to dry it up.

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I seem to have grown a LOT of garlic. What on earth am I going to do with it all?

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I am thinking of moving over to a raised bed system on my allotment next year. We have had some of our lawn taken up to build a gazebo and the builder has suggested using the turf to layer a raised bed(grass side down) which then is filled with soil.
Has anyone done this and know if it works?

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At the bottom of our garden we have a gazebo, it has a nest box attached to it, where we like to have a glass of wine in this nice weather. But alas, no more as the bird box has been taken over by Bees, lots of them   
These bees are quite small, about 6 mm with odd ones been a bit bigger. So my questions are, do all bees sting or the bigger question is, is this a permanent residence or will they eventually go. I don't want to do them any harm if they are going to go somewhere else soon.
Any help on this matter would be appreciated as I know nothing about bees.

Alan