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• #4852
On the hydrangea chat. Does anyone have a recommendation for a large (~2m) white one?
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• #4853
You got pm.
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• #4854
This whole neem oil thing. Does the solution seriously go off?
Working out the minuscule quantities to fit into a 400ml spray bottle is a ballache enough, but now this is saying I need to mix it up fresh every time!?!?
What are peoples' experience with it for aphids? Does it go off?
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• #4855
Neem oil is great. I use it all over the garden to excellent effect. The war with the aphids is long and attritional.
Can’t say if it goes off or not, I always use the whole batch I make up in one go.
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• #4856
Neem oil is a godsend. We just make a batch and use it over 1-2 weeks, doesn't seem to go off. It completely saved our beans from blackfly infestation
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• #4857
Cheers!
Will dig out a syringe and have a crack.
I bought 2l as it was better VFM and figured it'd last. At 2.5ml a time it will definitely last.
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• #4858
Apparently the leaves don't really rot so you'll be sweeping them up periodically. Do you have a pet koala?
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• #4859
Just about there with the Ranunculus!
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• #4860
We've been looking in on next door's chickens while they've been away this week, looks like they're getting rid when they get back...
Looks like we're getting some chickens and a little coop!! 😍
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• #4861
Brilliant! Hens are the best - just got in from a brief chicken cuddling break from my laptop. We get ours from bhwt.org.uk - loads of good advice on there. I’m sure others here will have some experience too so ask away if you have questions.
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• #4862
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/315482/
Chickens are complete wankers
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• #4863
My OH suggested the idea, I was surprised she was up for it... She changed her mind twenty minutes later when she realised we couldn't have friend's dogs running around the place with them loose in the garden... I think we've reached a compromise tho'... Neighbours get back tomorrow, let's see how we go... 🤗
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• #4864
First tomatoes!
(Gardeners Delight)
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• #4865
Check me out. This is not even using the cylinder mower, but a cheap plastic rotary thing from Lidl...
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• #4866
Better than Wembley.
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• #4867
Is it an optical illusion or is your garden on a big slope with a kink at the end?
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• #4868
It ramps up at the end of the top
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• #4869
It's beautiful.
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• #4870
Cheers. Here’s the view over that hedge in the right of the bottom shot. It’s a pretty special place.
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• #4871
The ball is for playing speaker skittles, right?
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• #4872
Last August I tried to plant a hedge with a few scrappy little plants from the internet:
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• #4873
11 months and a few formative trims later, it's growing really nicely, and given me a reason to be genuinely pleased when it rains:
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• #4874
..and the anti-alcoholic-fence still holding up nicely I see!
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• #4875
It's doing its job well! One guy who I've seen happily pissing in the road in the middle of the day walked past pointing at it and grumbling the other day, I was pleased.
Ok, so let's just go through how roots vs foundations actually works.
The problem here is that some soils shrink when water is extracted. Notably clay soils which are prevalent in London.
So if you have a large tree in proximity to a Victorian house, the water extraction of the tree can exacerbate the natural seasonal variation in soil moisture deficit, and in extreme cases cause subsidence.
I would not worry in the least about removing the eucalyptus tree in that photo.