Does anyone know anything about gardening?

has the buy/sell section disappeared? I can't seem to find it anymore.

Hope this is okay posting here, feel free to move it if not but does anyone want any of these for their pond/garden/allotment for FREE before I take them to the recycling centre next week?

Collect only from Epsom

1/ 210 litre water butt. I now use the slimline water butts instead. This is watertight although the tap/tap seal could do with replacing

2/ 50 gallon/227 litre cold water tank. Used over the years for fish storage and as the first stage in a multi-stage koi pond filter. It is watertight

3/ 95 gallon pre-formed fibreglass pond. There is a small hole in the bottom where the black square is so this can either be used to create a bog garden or seal the hole with a fibreglass repair kit and use as a small pond. My size 10 steel-toecap boot in one of the pics to indicate depth, circa 30cm

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On the cherry laurel thing, I have burnt huge amounts over the years but am not daft enough to stick my head over any fire and breathe deeply. I am not dead yet, opinions on whether that is a good thing vary.

Anyone able to ID this hedge from this rather shonky photo? It may have to be removed, and little sister wants to know how quickly or otherwise a replacement would grow. Looks coniferish to me.

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Has anyone got rid of an old shed before? If so, how did you do it please?

I have a shed that's half-mush, half-wood - it's a liability & needs to go. I'm in SE London with no car so taking it to the dump is out. I looked at those skip bags but they're horrendously expensive - any lower cost option would be appreciated please!

Worth checking if your local council will take it. We're in Southwark and we can book a collection for oversize garden/household waste on their website. It's costs but I don't remember it being that much. My neighbour just had his half mush shed taken away last week.

not a shed but I use my garden shredder to shred the numerous fence panels that I seem to go through.

Break the fence panel down to it's constituent parts and then feed them through the shredder.

Depending on whether you have a shredder of course this could get rid of large sections of it

... Bonfire ... ! Then you can post in the ‘Bastard neighbours’ thread as well ... tops

How about lobbing laurel leaves on the compost heap? Is that OK or is it just burning them.

Only if you are very patient, they take years to decompose, probably a bloody lifetime if there's any quantity.

Well. I wish I had know this before I removed a whole shrub.

Yep, leaves look as fresh as the day they were cut! I think I'll move the damn things into the green bin :)

The cyanide in the leaves is just as toxic to all the detritivors that would live in a compost heap, from rodents, through worms to bacteria.
I'm guessing a commercial composting outfit, working for a local authority, would cope with laurel through dilution.

A shed this old is almost certainly made from tanalised timber, the old solvented tanalising fluid based upon copper chrome arsenate. Any of those will kill you, especially in damp wood smoke.
Hopefully your local authority has a safe method of disposal.

could I get away with planting bamboo in the back of the bed here (as circled in pink) (this would be in front of my fence) and then planting other grasses/shrubs/flowers in front of it ? I don't know if there are issues with contention for resources/nutrients/space (especially given I'm going to bookend that run with a couple of trees 8-12ft trees)

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In short yes, but I would recommend something solid as root containment all the way around them to prevent them from spreading. The clump forming motherfucking triffidy bastards are more difficult to get rid of than Covid 19 once established.

thanks, that's helpful. (I'm sorry for being rude to you once on the starmer thread when I was very drunk one night. I keep out of there now)

Ahhhhhhhh

You were? Well done, I probably deserved it. Anything after 9 should be viewed as an exchange of not necessarily sober views.

On the bamboo, 45cm paving slabs buried on edge should do the job.

Whats the app? Can you share file please seeing as this is exactly the same as mine.
Cheers.

not sure if this link will work:
https://my-garden.gardena.com/shared-links/receive/767f92a2f21c9c4f1ab0924a9bd7ea30

web based app is here (not sure if there's a mac/iOS native client):
https://my-garden.gardena.com/uk

We're dealing with ours. The little fuckers.

are you removing some clump forming bamboo? just run out of control?

Do it now while there's moisture in the ground, if it dries out you'll need a kango (bitter experience, detailed a few pages back).

I saw a Photinia x fraseri 'Red Robin'. Photinias in the garden centre. OH liked it. Google says it should grow in our garden.

But there was a comment on the smell of the flowers, however I'm struggling to find a description. Can anyone tell me what they smell of?

Perfect solution: gift your bamboo to @cozey on a dig-your-own basis!