Does anyone know anything about gardening?

finally got round to sowing my oats* this afternoon
been a while since i last did it

• and my wheatgrass and my fescues and my kentucky bluegrass and my ryegrass and my st. augustine grass and my bentgrass ... well you get the idea
  
  
  

2 weeks till a healthy stubble and a first trim

Dicki. Lovely looking spot. Why would you do this - ornament, or a crop?

it's a new lawn
i tried leaving the lawn to go au naturel the last 2 summers to see what would grow appear
not very sucessful so decided to restart
dug over two spades deep then griddled the top foot of soil removed all stones above gravel size
the soil is so fine now the grass should have no excuses !

it looked better 5 years ago

Ah, mixed grasses. Cool.

Prairie planting, dead trendy. Nice hollyhocks.

soon

I did a gardening, made some window boxes

sweet fence
close enough to being straight as makes no difference
could we get a close up of the gardening

I set up a new plant box a couple of weekends ago. It's doing well. I have about a dozen flowers popping out in one of my boxes (and a handful more bulbs which should show themselves in the next few weeks). Also have three tomato plants coming up. The other 5 or 6 got chomped on by the cat while they were indoors. Will need to plant more.

I'm pretty much a farmer.

Our house is full of seedlings at the moment.

yup
spring is a great time if you have time to spend in the garden, loads to do and new life appearing everywhere

soon

well not as soon as i'd hoped as i couldn't upload to flickr but

soon

Last autumn Edie was obsessed with collecting conkers and adding them to a pile in the garden for squirrels to come and eat.

So far I must've pulled up 25 small conker trees from various beds and pots we have.

sweet fence
close enough to being straight as makes no difference
could we get a close up of the gardening

Heh, we're on a slight hill, nothing's straight in the whole house.

No close ups I'm afraid, this is more Mrs G's thing, I provided some creative consultancy (the colour of the boxes and the flowers), basically I liked the white flowers with the little yellow bit in the middle because they look like fried eggs

you probably dug over the beds and transported the horse manure

Our house is full of seedlings at the moment.

This. How big a seedling is too big for modules and should be potted?

Sowed some seeds in my heated propagator at the weekend.

Got tomatoes, squash, courgettes, purple sprouting broccoli (which have grown like mad in a few days), peppers and chilies

Very excited, it's been a while since I've had access to a garden to grow my own.

Howard, I think about potting my seedlings on when they reach as high as the pot is deep. Then about two weeks later I actually get round to doing it...

Does anyone know where to get reclaimed wood to build up raised beds?

I would prefer to avoid railways sleepers, as they're all too often covered in grimness.

And then what can I fill them with - I don't have ready access to soil.

The plan is to have a raised bed against the fence, which is nicely sheltered and a good sun tap, and plant out the tomatoes, courgettes, aubergines, chilies, and a heap of herbs that have been propagating for the past few weeks on various windowsills.

Where do you live TW2? Urban farms often have soil for cheap (Hackney City and Spitalfields do, anyway).

Howard, I think about potting my seedlings on when they reach as high as the pot is deep. Then about two weeks later I actually get round to doing it...

Guess I'd better get on with potting them then :)

Scaffolding planks are a good alternative. We've recently used a place in Peckham, who specialises in reclaimed timber, and he delivered for an extra fee.

TW2 look for big wooden pallets (sourced from builders yards etc), can be dismantled a bit to make beds

I got my soil from sainsburys online grocery shop last year, the delivery man hated me.

wow very posh
sainsbury's soil
never knew such a thing existed !

They sold bags of it online and I didn't have a car so easier to get them to deliver it with the rest of my shopping!