Gardening/Allotmenting

[biggs682]

A good 1.5 hours spent deweeding 3 big rose pots and 5 assorted other pots then topped them all up with a mixture of soil and manure.

2 raise vegetable beds have been de weeded and a bag of manure has been tipped onto and then turned over .

So 4 bags left one more raised fruit bed to do and a big pot that has a dwarf apple tree in is my task for tomorrow.

Time for a cuppa

 

[Speicher]

I have in the past had some Verbascum Olympicum in my garden.

It seems that the seeds lie dormant for some time, and now I have large clumps of them where the original plants were. They look like they are too crowded for them to grow into very large, very tall plants.

The plants that look like they will flower this year, are about twenty inches in diameter. Has anyone got any advice about how to transplant them?

 

[biggs682]

Another hour de weeding the last raised fruit bed and Apple tree pot and then spreading some manure on and around both.

10 strawberry plants have been re homed around the edge of one of our raised bed.

Got one and half bags left .

 

[Elybazza61]

I have in the past had some Verbascum Olympicum in my garden.

It seems that the seeds lie dormant for some time, and now I have large clumps of them where the original plants were. They look like they are too crowded for them to grow into very large, very tall plants.

The plants that look like they will flower this year, are about twenty inches in diameter. Has anyone got any advice about how to transplant them?

Just try and get as much root as possible and water well; might be an idea to leave it until it cools down a bit.

 

[postman]

Doing nowt today.Mrs P reckons i am doing too much.So rather than get in to an argument,not lifting a finger in neighbours garden.So to get away from the fil i am sitting on our bench in the garden and relaxing,reet grand.

 

[biggs682]

After 2 failed attempts finally picked a big enough pot for our magnolia gone from 47 litre to a 65 litre one .

Filled the bottom and sides of the pot with mixture of fresh horse yard manure with Ericacious compost .

Also planted two potatoes that have shot roots out in the old 47 litre pot along with soil and compost so fingers crossed.

 

[steveindenmark]

I got on the plot for a full day this week. Tidying up and getting some seeds in. Its my first year of growing veg and dahlia and so it will be interesting. I am fortunate that all my pavers and edging blocks are all free from the recycling centre . My pallet collars were new from the recycling centre and I got 4 for about £5. They are heat treated. The green water butt was 50p from the recycling centre. Most of the seeds were collected last year.

So it has been quite cheap up to now.

 

[steveindenmark]

A busy day out on the plot, here in Denmark. You never seem to get enough done.

I broke up some pallets and got my local DIY store to sell me some 2.5m posts at half price because they were not straight.

Then I set about building a frame to grow some trombolino squash up. With a name like that, you just have to and they are an

interesting looking veg. This is my first attempt.

I got the grass cut and the tiny house cleaned out. Started sorting the strawberry beds.

The mirabella plum trees are in full flower and look great.

Then time ran out. 😁

 

[Elybazza61]

Spent today moving an old shed with all the issues with re-building old garden buildings ; lots of cursing but it's now up and we can now open the doors.
Also received some plants from Great Dixter nursery; two Thalictrums ,a tuberous Phlomis and a Rodgersia.

 

[postman]

I am helping my neighbour with his garden,a few hours a week,it's great it gets me a break from care duties.Like today,Mrs is away till Sunday evening,so i did dinner,made his tea sat him in the conservatory,where he fell asleep,i worked in the neighbours front garden i kept popping in to see if he was alright and i got done in just over an hour,he has just dropped asleep next to me now.Its his ovaltine soon then an early night ,i am not staying up till 10-30.

 

[Elybazza61]

Relaxed day today.

Dropped some plants(some of the ones above from Gt Dixter and some from a Nursery near Peterboghorror) in the border to see how it will look along with some canes to show where the Canna musifolias will go.

Then a bit of relaxing in the afternoon as it was a bit warm and then planted an Ivy 'Pedata' (birds foot Ivy) which is a small spreading not climbing variety; then re-planted a fern and two Euphorbia griffithii that needed a shadier and wetter spot.

 

[biggs682]

13 Runner bean seeds have been planted i wonder how many will make it up a pole

 

[Accy cyclist]

We have two Trachycarpus in pots and never feed them this time of year; also have two in the ground that have got quite big but they generally are as tough as anything;

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I fed my palm tree yesterday with...

I didn't put the recommended two caps/20mls
in 4.5 litres of water as 4.5 litre of water on already damp soil wouldn't be good for my tree, so I put half a capful of the above in 1 litres of water, carried across the busy road to my palm tree, in a thermos flask. 5mls of plant feed doesn't seem much, but I suppose it's better than over feeding it. I also mashed up a going brown bananas in its skin into the soil, then covered it with more soil to make it break down into the soil and prevent any busy body seeing it and removing it, thinking it looks unsightly. When I've left banana skins on top of my palm tree's soil they just dry up to a hard consistency, not breaking down as such.

 

[Accy cyclist]

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I fed my palm tree yesterday with...
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I didn't put the recommended two caps/20mls in 4.5 litres of water as 4.5 litres of water on already damp soil wouldn't be good for my tree, so I put half a capful of the above in 1 litres of water, carried across the busy road to my palm tree, in a thermos flask. 5mls of plant feed doesn't seem much, but I suppose it's better than over feeding it. I also mashed up a going brown bananas in its skin into the soil, then covered it with more soil to make it break down into the soil and prevent any busy body seeing it and removing it, thinking it looks unsightly. When I've left banana skins on top of my palm tree's soil they just dry up to a hard consistency, not breaking down as such.

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I also dug out any dandelion roots I found, leaving the things on top of the soil to eventually break down. Obviously I didn't cover them with soil as then they would re-root themselves wouldn't they?🤔

 

[Accy cyclist]

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I also dug out any dandelion roots I found, leaving the things on top of the soil to eventually break down. Obviously I didn't cover them with soil as then they would re-root themselves wouldn't they?🤔

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I'm slightly concerned about some leaves/fronds looking a bit brown and 'chewed' on the ends. What might have caused this? I doubt it was frost as we've had a relatively ice and frost free winter. Could it be insects I wonder, or are those leaves just dying off?🤔