Gardening/Allotmenting

[Accy cyclist]

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?🤔

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What are those little tan coloured things between the trowel and flask, on top of the soil? Are they slow feeding plant food, or slug repellents maybe?🤔

 

[Elybazza61]

What are those little tan coloured things between the trowel and flask, on top of the soil? Are they slow feeding plant food, or slug repellents maybe?🤔

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Looks like slow release fertiliser and those leaves are probably just old.

I'd get a small bag of grit and lay it on top of the compost, it will help hold the water in .

 

[Elybazza61]

A few pics from the garden today.

Rosa banksiae 'Lutescens'

Dryopteris wallaichiana

Alliums

Allium siculum

Polygonatumx x hybridism 'Betburg'

Disporum longistylum 'Green Giant'

Epimedium 'Suzuka'

Paeonia lactiflora

Fillipendula multijuga 'Hjordis'

General view with male Trachycarpus fortunei flowering (female hidden behind!),Tetrapanax papyfera 'Rex',Acer 'Bloodgood' , Fatsia japonica and a Kniphofia northiae in the foreground

 

[PeteXXX]

Rate my rhubarb ☹️

 

[annedonnelly]

I've never see rhubarb with leaves like that!

 

[Asa Post]

I've never see rhubarb with leaves like that!

It's Chinese rhubarb

 

[PeteXXX]

Bolted Chinese Rhubarb.

 

[Jameshow]

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Rate my rhubarb ☹️

Where did you get it from - Mr Sum Ting Wong?!

 

[PeteXXX]

Where did you get it from - Mr Sum Ting Wong?!

No.. Wil-Kin-Sun 👍

 

[biggs682]

First red lilly beetle of the year spotted and dispatched

 

[Milzy]

Next doors climber is creeping along my fence but I don’t want to cut it. Do you think he’ll mind us enjoying his flowers?

 

[Jenkins]

First red lilly beetle of the year spotted and dispatched

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Not seen any on my plants yet this year - the bug spray is ready though.

 

[Jameshow]

Got my veg garden up and running.

Using shopping crates kindly donated by my ex.

I'm growing runner beans, onions, tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce.

Have a larger square planter I'm pondering what to plant? Courgettes?

 

[T4tomo]

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Rate my rhubarb ☹️

tha'd get run out o Wakefield if yer Rhubarb's like that!

 

[T4tomo]

I only have small almost maintenance free garden, my nod to edible is a few herb pots and and bunch of strawberries plants, who vie with my climbing rose and clematis in the only proper bed.

They did super well last year so I grew a few of the runners off them, gave a mix of the new plants and old to daughter 1 and back filled the old in my bed with the new plants.

Have a lot of small green fruit at the moment so looking promising and daughters are doing well in a couple of pots at hers.

the "earliest" of the clematis plants came out in flower last week