Gardeners!

[Sandra6]

We need atleast two dry weeks before our garden becomes "mowable" it's currently a bog.
I'm considering paving over most if not all of it, but it's a lot of money to spend.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

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Our garden is looking rather neat, perhaps, that is because I am 1000 miles away from it, and, one of my daughters is looking after it for me? ;

Nice! What is growing against the arch? It looks pruned to text book standards. I am impressed.

 

[Lullabelle]

Yesterday our back lawns had their first mow of the year, now the weather has improved (?) hopefully I can get out there in the evenings, so much has happened over the winter months so it needs a good tidy up.

 

[BoldonLad]

Nice! What is growing against the arch? It looks pruned to text book standards. I am impressed.

Plants on arch are Clemetis. Thank you for the kind words re: my pruning!

 

[keithmac]

What do you all use for scarifying your lawns, isnit just a normal garden rake?.

Mines full of moss, would be nice to smarten it up a bit..

 

[Heltor Chasca]

What do you all use for scarifying your lawns, isnit just a normal garden rake?.

Mines full of moss, would be nice to smarten it up a bit..

Big lawn in my garden. The chickens do a great job with their mini-rakes. They even stopped my clover problem.

In client’s small gardens I use a spring tined rake. HARD HARD work. Great for core muscle work. Then overseed.

In large gardens I hire a machine and don’t stop saying to them, ‘It’ll look worse before it looks better.’ Because it looks a mess. Then I overseed.

 

[Dave 123]

A visit to Simpsons Nursery in Fordham this afternoon.
We're 80 quid lighter, but there were some plants in pots that had done their stint that needed replacing. (And I do like a bit of variety from the stuff I grow at work)

I'm in 2 minds wether to redo the patio...... not sure I want to spend any money!

One of my favourite plants Viburnum carlessii aurora just about to burst out and smell Devine

And Viburnum x burkwoodii Ann Russel, another fantastic scent

We also bought some Geum, Campanula, Coreopsis, Briza and an alpine strawberry.

In a few weeks it'll be Nicotiana sylvestris and suaveolens and a few Dahlias, although I expect the ones in my raised beds to have survived.

 

[keithmac]

Big lawn in my garden. The chickens do a great job with their mini-rakes. They even stopped my clover problem.

In client’s small gardens I use a spring tined rake. HARD HARD work. Great for core muscle work. Then overseed.

In large gardens I hire a machine and don’t stop saying to them, ‘It’ll look worse before it looks better.’ Because it looks a mess. Then I overseed.

Do I need to kill the moss off first before scarifying?, so it doesn't get spread all over the lawn?.

Sorry for all the questions but I don't want to make it worse!

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Do I need to kill the moss off first before scarifying?, so it doesn't get spread all over the lawn?.

Sorry for all the questions but I don't want to make it worse!

It can help. I employ organic methods so use iron sulphate mixed with water in a can. You need to be VERY careful with the dose though. The moss turns black in less than half an hour. Good on drives and paths and the dosage isn’t as important. No need to rake up as is just rots into the soil. I couldn’t answer with regards to other methods.

Otherwise a good old scratch will suffice. Because moss will be back next year whatever you do. Keeps us lot in work

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Our grass got mowed last night for the first time this year, and I also started the weeding out the front, most of the garden hasn't stirred yet but the weeds have.

 

[Tin Pot]

Don’t know if it was the work or the pollen but I was bushed all day. Spent a while sprawled on the lawn with my daughter though, so not all wasted

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Well just done the first cut of the grass. A job I'm not that keen on but I suppose it has to be done. Much rather be planting stuff. I did a bit of seed sowing in trays and pots the other day. More to get in tho'. Busy time of year for that.

 

[keithmac]

Don’t know if it was the work or the pollen but I was bushed all day. Spent a while sprawled on the lawn with my daughter though, so not all wasted

One of my best memories is laying on the trampoline with my son when he was 3, just watching the clouds go by trying to find shapes!. We must have been an hour or more without a care in the world.

He's 11 next month and now into his bikes and his xbox!.

 

[Dave 123]

This is work as opposed to gardening
30 window boxes done up this afternoon

1000 plug plants in 10 varieties potted too. A busy day.

 

[Dave 123]

[QUOTE 5225960, member: 259"]Well done, but window boxes are the bane of my life![/QUOTE]
Why so?