Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Absolutely you can,

in gardening guides it often suggests adding tomato feed to this or that. Its basically a rich NPK fertiliser, stuff intended for house plants will probably be more orientated around the nitrogen and less rich as house plants usually grown slowly, have no fruit or flowers.

You can use it on potted patio flowers, hanging baskets etc. Id generally refrain from using an artificial fertiliser for anything in the ground though. There should be enough nutrients in the soil & compost and you disrupt the natural balance.

In regards to your tomato seedlings, dont worry about it. They are pretty robust. You can let them grow on till they are really crammed and crowded in current container, then seperate them later even if it means tearing the roots somewhat. They will barely notice it once you pot them up. But getting a too small seedling and planting in a separate pot where it may not be given the same ideal warm conditions as when crammed in the propagator, will have more of a negative effect, will slow down growth.

Oh, and I was going to buy some feed today for non-tomatoes (already have tomato feed). But the jug was enough for 10,000l or some craziness. It wasn't particularly expensive, but I don't need 10,000l of fertilizer. Can I just use the tomato stuff on other plants?

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

17th march, post #276

did the first cut at the weekend nice high sharp blades on the mower
will lower blades today and give it a 2nd cut
the firsts signs of sprouting do take an age
it does appear at first like a teenagers first attempt at facial hair
patchy sporadic and altogether unedifying
little water each day and they should come

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

soon

7th april

so just under three weeks

17th march, post #276

did the first cut at the weekend nice high sharp blades on the mower
will lower blades today and give it a 2nd cut
the firsts signs of sprouting do take an age
it does appear at first like a teenagers first attempt at facial hair
patchy sporadic and altogether unedifying
little water each day and they should come

Not bad as poetry, but you really want to take this to a workshop. :)

it's my a b c d e f meter

so much better than a a b b a or a b a b

Cheers, DFP. I'll use the fertilizer on all the things.

it took me an age to come up with the title of the poem but i think i nailed it oliver

7th april

so just under three weeks

ta.

KT and TW2 - These are ready to go now, I can bring them along to the forum track day if this is convenient for either of you?

I'm out racing all day but I'm in Brixton - so depending which way you're going you could drop them in my front garden / pick up the other seedlings. Or we can arrange a drop another time.

patience here has resulted in this:

which we're happy with.

Nice one! Now dig out the mower :-)

We have the prev owners flymo. I fear it might damage the lawn. This pic was after a gentle haircut by hand with shears (sad I know).

P.s. the tree shown was fruiting every 2 years as never pruned very crowded, after 3 years of pruning it is now heavy with fruit in what would have been a zero year, result.

We have the prev owners flymo. I fear it might damage the lawn. This pic was after a gentle haircut by hand with shears (sad I know).

It's grass, it has already taken several doses of HTFU.

Found this monster in the back yard:

Giant hogweed. Get the sap on your skin and it causes phytophotodermatitis, Google Giant Hogweed burns for gruesome photos. I carefully lopped it with a spade.

Fancied relaxing with a spot of topiary this afternoon.

eyes nose and a mouth would finish that off perfectly
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What a neatly trimmed bush, BN.

@Spindrift, Haha, that takes me back. Hogweed is evil stuff. I remember hacking through a mini jungle of it down by the river as a teenager
and ending up looking like the singing detective.

I just back from my folks in Wales, they have a rather splendid hankerchief tree in their garden that is quite a sight.

It looks like a great year for gardeners. My folks are about to have a glut of strawberries, with rasberries and blackcurrents to follow. They also trying tayberries and boysenberries this year, I can't wait for this years jam.

Gutted that down here in that London I don't even have a garden and I've been told the waiting list for an allotment where I live in Lambeth is 12 years!

Love those hankie trees. There is one in the grounds of Kenwood House if anyone wants a close up gander.

Good stealthbike too!

Fantastic tree, looks like some great shed action going on in the background too

It is indeed an epic shed, I have shed envy. It was obviously made by someone who spent more time in it than the house. My folks got all its contents free with the house, one mans lifetime collection of tools and bits and bobs, its like a museum exhibit.

Its better than google, and Narnia. I can go into the shed for something and get massively distracted, lose an hour and forget why I went in there in the first place. Its a huge time sink, I imagine such sheds have been cited as grounds for divorce. I spend hours in it whenever I'm there, usually looking for something I'd have found ages ago if it was'nt such a tardis :|

Love sheds like that. Next project...