Gardening/Allotmenting

[wiggydiggy]

After last year's Christmas tree died on me earlier this year I decided I wasn't getting one this year. I got this Connifer instead in the sale for £20, will grow up to 6ft apparently so if that takes I'll be happy.

 

[biggs682]

Half an hour de weeding completed
Hard to see where I have been but had a bucket full at the end.

 

[wiggydiggy]

After last year's Christmas tree died on me earlier this year I decided I wasn't getting one this year. I got this Connifer instead in the sale for £20, will grow up to 6ft apparently so if that takes I'll be happy.



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I looked this up and its actually a Yew - Taxus Baccata. I may have underestimated its size:



Luckily it only grows 20-40cm per year so I can manage it pretty well hopefully!

 

[Red17]

Visited the allotment this morning and I think my rhubarb is confused as it shouldn't be growing at this time of year

 

[briantrumpet]

The French garden hibernating nicely. Maybe, just maybe, I'll get here in October so I can plant my last tree, an apple, to go with the plums, greengage, and cherry.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've just fed my palm tree with liquidised bananas and green leaf veg. I liquidised 4 very soft, going brown bananas and the leaves, along with some cold tea to make it into a liquid consistency. My palm tree now lives acoss the road, outside the old folk, women's institute etc centre. I asked the women's institute ladies if they'd like it across there as it kept getting moved and messed with by the dossers in these flats.


There was about 1 litre of the liquid food. I used a trowel to cover the liquid as best I could with the tree's soil.

 

[Emanresu]

I looked this up and its actually a Yew - Taxus Baccata. I may have underestimated its size:



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Luckily it only grows 20-40cm per year so I can manage it pretty well hopefully!

Have lots of yew around here. Some are approaching 800 years old so that's a lot of Xmas's for yew.

https://ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk/how-to-record/species-guides/yew/

 

[biggs682]

After a couple of half hour trimming sessions our bay leaf tree I reckon about another couple sessions it should be under control for a few more years