Does anyone know anything about gardening?

One for the No Mow May crowd: https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/v6talm/neighbour_cut_my_grass_out_of_jealousy_are_there/

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My rambling rose arrived. So excited can’t wait to plant it. I’m considering options for attaching it to the wall, any suggestions???

Vine eyes and galvanised wire of a fairly heavy gauge would be my suggestion, less visually intrusive than trellis.

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Make sure you get beefy enough vine eyes so they don't flex when you tension the wire.

I used concrete screws with washers and heavy gauge wire to create horizontal runners. You really want two people to get the tension in the wire.

However, to start it will be small. So I would probably go for one of those stick things with wires going sideways. Then remove that once it can get to the wire runners.

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This is definitely worth resurrection of the frozen sausages…

I made myself some trellis using solid 6mm stainless round bar. It's visually unobtrusive, should last a good long time and was pretty straightforward to make. Does require access to a welder though.

Bastard Neighbours thread >>>>>>>>

Brutal.

He should draw a massive and exceptionally detailed penis with weed killer on his front lawn. Or steal his credit card details and cover the entirety of his front garden with tonnes of fine pea shingle.

Do love the delusional way the OP thinks the bastard neighbour is jelly. When he's clearly just one of those dull anal fucks with no imagination.

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Has anyone else noticed an absolute plummet on honeybees this year? I’ve got 20 square metres of wildflowers planted for them, lavender, rosemary, Passion flowers etc and barely seeing a bee. Happily plenty of bumbles (including some blue ones that I have only ever seen at the allotment) but barely a honeybee either in the garden or the allotment.

The allotment hive collapsed last year, but even so……..

Really worried.

No. I've never had as many. They're everywhere.

Lots of bumble bees too. Although I saw my first one dying of the year, which always makes me sad.

May just be local. Hope so.

Honey bees are a bit of a problem as they can crowd out other pollinators so if there are lots of other bees then it sounds great.

my peas are really tall. can i cut them back (above the flowers) to encourage production of peas?

Might be the area? I get a lot of bumbles, but not too many bees.

But it was the same in the other house a mile down the road, 80% bumble and 20% bee.

Heads up that this Sunday there are 6 NGS open gardens in London Fields: https://ngs.org.uk/view-garden/34306

No trains running to London Fields this weekend though

Our neighbours (abandoned garden, currently empty house) has a plumb tree just over our fence. It is infested with small white flys, curled up leaves etc. I'm assuming plum aphids. Is there any way to stop/control this as I don't want out whole garden infested.

To give some context. The tree had been snapped/split apart apart by a mad vine that had taken over their garden but was growing and looking heathy. Last summer, with the owners permission, I attacked the vine and also cut back a lot of the plumb tree branches growing out into my garden. I was definitely over zealous and didn't research first which I know was not the best. I basically pollarded the bit of the tree growing into our garden.

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We've got loads of bees, barely any butterflies

Find an ashtray or fifteen and soak fag butts in water until nicely brown. Squirt.

Kills ‘em dead and doesn’t migrate.

I’m still one of those idiots that smoke, and make a few 3 litre bottles every year.

Did these turn up? Need some colour in a corner.

Tall verbena and roses, much nicer than the bindweed that was in the bed before.

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Unlikely to hurt. Water is probably important too.

More new turf might be less effort and cheap?

Sorry, forgot to reply. I did a bit of research (Watched youtube) and apparently I'd need something that goes a fair bit deeper and actually removes a little of the compacted earth.

So this is the wisteria I’m going to be transplanting. Going to do it tomorrow night. Is there any benefit to clipping it back or should I try and get all of it?

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