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.