Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Honestly I can’t suggest anything better than pulling it up til it gives up the ghost and stops coming back.

I’m going to assume everyone on here is already familiar with the damage Monsanto have wreaked across the world with that product.
They(well it’s Bayer now) don’t deserve your hard earned coin.
I know one garden is a drop in the ocean but yeah. It’s just a weed at the end of the day.

I stored some trellis against the fence and it’s now totally covered in bindweed, looks kind of cool especially when a few flowers come out. Don’t know if it really reduces it elsewhere but looks better than a blank fence for now.
Just ordered another £100 of plants from Beth Chatto as there’s free shipping for bank holiday. Got some duplicates of the ones that are doing the best from the last bunch so I can cluster some a bit, and starting on the opposite bed that’s just got lavender and rosemary atm.
Does anyone use some kind of annual guide of what to do when through the year? I guess it really depends what you have etc.

Someone bought me the Gardener's World almanac for Christmas a few years ago, have found it quite useful

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-gardeners-world-almanac/monty-don/9781785947520

Try to bundle into bin bags, and nuke with glyphosate.
We dug literally dumpy bags worth of roots out, and it's still reappearing.
Hours and hours of backbreaking work.

So dumping all that carcinogenic poison all over your garden was a waste of time then if it’s still coming back?
Another reason not to use that heinous shit.

I can get free sandpit sand from the council..It has been stored outside for ages so u imagine it's well washed now.

Is that any good for mixing to create poor soil? I rather not buy sand as it may very well not be sustainably sourced.

Does anyone use some kind of annual guide of what to do when through the year? I guess it really depends what you have etc.

Best thing to do is watch gardeners world every week! You can skip to the 'jobs for the weekend' bit if that's all you're interested in, it's always the at the very end

Don't usually bring in flowers from the garden but this is nice.

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Very nice!

I know Hori Hori’s are old hat here at Lufguss so I thought I’d recommend this hand hoe thingy which was given to me as a bit of a birthday afterthought for the man who has all-the-tools. I’m genuinely surprised how useful and effective it is as £18 usually doesn’t get you much at Niwaki

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What is the LD50 of cucumber?

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Oohh! That's a good price for Niwaki Xmas prezzie for someone sorted :)

I have one of these. Really rate it

yup I half dug out a grassed front garden for car parking (sorry) and converted the other half to a gravel garden. I really like it and have planted it up with lots of grasses, a large dracena in a large pot, large pebbles and other drought loving plants.

Will nip upstairs and take a pic out of the window and add it to here in a moment.

Pic below and I note it also includes a Heuchera, a few different varieties of Sedum, a trachycarpus, a Hottentot fig, a few Sempervivum varieties and some smaller alpines that you can't see in the pic but are around the top of the row of large stones on the right that provide a different level to the garden.

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Fab stuff and great garden- a few plants I haven’t heard of so good to add to my list. Thinking of having a pond in the middle of it too along with an olive tree, bay tree, lavender, poppies, rocks etc etc!

Looks great!

I have some rocks and gravel, will definitely give a small gravel garden a go after seeing this:)

Does anyone have any recommendations for garden Instagram accounts?

We have a small south-facing garden and would like to do something with it, but have no idea where to start looking.

Live in the real world, go for a walk , be nosey and look at gardens.
Failing that go on the internet ;)

Many Mediterranean plants / sedums / prairy plants should do well, my two cents would be to plant something for every season. Bulbs/Hellebore for late winter with interesting leaves, then have flowers all the way for pollinators.

Other aspect is use: What should be seating, what should be grass to play on/sit on (or thyme/moss, there are some alternatives for grass), do you want to add a small pond/bird bath for water?

What is your style? Formal with geometrical aspects? Informal with mostly plants? Etc? Do you like stone/gravel gardens? Or cottage gardens?

This site is actually not bad for ideas: https://www.bhg.com/gardening/plans/easy/ it is USA based, but it should work here. The continuing heat/weird weather means roses and some other plants may be struggling if you are in a hot part of the UK with sandy soil...

Friend is coming round to trim some of our trees (2 magnolia and an acer) and so think I will need a chipper, any advice on what to go for? Will one of those gravity chippers be ok?

My dad bought a cheap one and abused it clearing his massive garden, then my sister's massive garden, then a big willow in my small garden. It finally died on the last branch at my place. But it chewed up literal tonnes before that.

Think Acers are only meant to be pruned in Winter as the sap can bleed if pruned when in leaf?

Rudbeckia (Fulgida Deamii) is having a great year and certainly providing some lovely late summer / early autumn colour.

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Nice! If you’re going to plant something, plant a good old patch of it!

One of the echinacea I gave my mum has a weird conjoined head which I’ll save the seeds from but won’t know for a couple of years if it’s passed on…

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