Does anyone know anything about gardening?

3 from the bed I was bitching about, and another 3 for good luck en route to the green bin.

Get your head torches on and get out there folks!

(also fucking hate all the insects from my bog garden flying in my eyes)

Remember when I said about aerating the hard packed soil?

Well.

First I grabbed a vintage spiked fork from the covered market, which does a good job at poking holes.

Then, today I was collecting a literal van-load of roof tiles from marketplace. The couple are moving house and kept saying “don’t suppose you want a…”

“…lawn aerator? I used it at the golf course. It’s a bit Worzel”

Snapped up and in the van. Just needs some ballast on it to apply the downward pressure.

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Is this a hydrangea? There were some plants going free outside a church near me and I picked this one up.

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Yes

Obvs too early to say, but it looks very similar to my Phantom, which was one of 3 free hydrangeas in a bonus gift with my J Parker order.

If it is here are my notes

Phantom (in a nice pot probably)
upright to spreading plant, 145 x 195cm
1.5 high 2.5m spread

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Or maybe not. Yours leaves are more of a teardrop shape than mine.

Either way I'd keep it in a pot* so you can move it about and check out the flowers before planting. I feed mine with bone meal. Remember it will want partial shade.

*but repot as it looks a bit cramped and there is still time for it to flower.

Repotted so should be fine for a while. Hopefully it will flower and give some indication to its identity.

We accidentally acquired a wheel hoe with a bag of accessories, and a Merry Tiller Cadet.

Garden maintenance and veg patch level up.

I've yet to catch the buggers but we have hedgehog shit all over the rear garden and the plants are doing much better out back than at the front. Slugs are great for attracting the hogs!

We have slugageddon in back garden, anything from garden centre is demolished overnight (nepeta, salvias, coreopsis etc + more). I tend to slug pellet around them when first down to give them a fighting chance, but i think the issue is more just fresh new leaves and optimal growing conditions.

Once in for a bit, the plants seem to "bitter up" and even completely stripped plants come back if growing conditions are ok. Seedlings/small plants are buggered though.

I pulled those two up and potted them in pots with copper tape. Once they are more. Established I'll put them back with safe gaurds.

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Unfortunately our back of the garden is a brick wall, and there are too many houses all overlooking each other. I’m not sure how or where hedgehogs could get in. Shame, too, as they kept the pest content low at mum and dad’s (common land behind sheds behind house).

Star jasmine is doing nicely and grass has taken at the front

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Eventually it should cover the old brickwork at the front

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Looks like Cornus (dogwood) to me

Could be. The leaves feel ‘rough’

I bought these steel flower stands(?) and there is some surface rust.

Should I just lob them in the ground? Or am I best off painting or treating them?

I have a bit of black metal paint knocking around and possibly some cheap spray paint.... So it wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to paint the bottom sections.

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Small friend found in the garden this afternoon:

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Whack them in the ground. They’re going rusty no matter what. You’ll get years out of them before there’s a problem.

Cheers

Aw lovely :)

Was cooking my lunch earlier and thought my border looked good today. Can go through periods of no colour then all the colours. I've been beavering away since April removing 2 old rotten wooden sheds and bases at the bottom of the garden. Today marked the last big tip run with rubble and hardcore. Total in the weighbridge so far is 4.7 tonnes. Not that I'm that sad that I keep a spreadsheet with dumping totals. Plan is to now dig more sacks of well rotted manure in and then try and design some nice sort of garden down there.
Fence to be done next at there wasn't actually a fence behind the shed. Photo of shit bare soil so I can look back when it looks nice to see how far we've progressed.

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Great work

Awesome

Any tips for dealing with bind weed? Spent a good while yesterday pulling it out of these beds. Then gave up and had a bbq while the sun lasted

Think we need to train the dogs to eat it :p

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