Anyone for Gardening (again)?

Airwave!

Can't remember who told me how to get rid of the pampas grass, well, its worked! We are having a 'sons' day and in return for a bbq and a beer they get to dig it out.

High brow planning is going on as to what to do with the space, a flowerbed of some design? Next stop is the red robin which appears to have died.

minky67

My pampass grass keeps getting threatened too. I like it but the kids round here think they have the right to come in & trash it every time it flowers.
I was thinking about a flower bed too.
OH will get round to it one day i think :roll:
debs

lindalegs

I, today, have produced my first baby ................tomato. YAY who's a clever girl

lindalegs

Grafting tomatoes :shock: - you're way out of my league

I'm happy to do it the easy way.

valval

my toms only 4" tall no flowers mind you no green house so they out doors now hope they make it

valval

rehab44 wrote:

valval wrote:

my toms only 4" tall no flowers mind you no green house so they out doors now hope they make it

Early days Val Remember its only May

true but nearly june summer might even come you never know val

Airwave!

We've just surrounded the vegetable patch with some wire fence, about 15" high, to keep out the rabbits/deer/anything else thats hungry. OH has put some sticks around as well, I think this is just being hopeful. Anyone else have marauding animals?

minky67

Does a cat count?
I got up at 6.30am & there was a cat curled up on me bird table :shock: Im sure it was smiling at me til i opened the back door & it flipped over the fence so fast to get away.
I had to go out in my dressing gown (Not a pretty site ) & pick up all the bird feeders it had knocked off :x The blasted thing wont stay out of the garden & weve only just started to get the birds back in.

Any ideas & sorry to all the cat lovers, i do like cats but this one is pooping all over the lawn & scaring the birds off.
debs

Airwave!

I do get the same problem with cats on one of my front lawns, I throw all the mess behind the hedge, it seems to have slowed the cat down. It may be to do with smell, they only poo where their smell is?

Fed up with chasing them, there seems more cats than ever. Does anyone know?

coco67

double barrel shot gun................ :shock: im kidding

try a sonic pest controller, they admit a sound they dont like, keeps mice etc away but seems to put of the cats also.


if you have the patience then hose the bug*ers as soon as they come in the garden

Airwave!

I like the idea of manic force! Double barrels, that reminds me we have a couple of super soaker pump up water guns in the garage.......... don't know if my aim is good enough for mice though? We have field mice down the bottom of the garden, spot of practice ready for the cats!

frogmorton

Good Morning Gardeners....

so sorry l have been remiss in not posting on here.

I haven't told you that l bought 25 ladybirds online have l? Well they arrived the week before last and are still here eating the greenfly off me roses. I keep watching them through me Dad's old magnifying glass.

I now intend to buy a ladybird house to help them overwinter with us Everyone here things l have really 'lost it' :oops:

l have also had plum leaf curl on my damsen tree :shock:

Val l have flowers on my tomato plants,but MELLMAN has tomatoes :green

Love

Toni xx

frogmorton

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Yes! You have lost it, but I am sure we would not have you any other way

It is good to see you are going organic though[/quote]


Ok Rehab!!!!

always been organic....when l get back from Cornwall l will try to take a piccie of me ladybirds

they are two spot native english ones....you learn something new eh?

valval

went off ladybirds after got bitten by them in the 70s remember when there was an epidemic (is that the right word) we were camping at army camp at ollerton and was bitted all over.
hoping to get out in garden for bit this weekend but kitchen window needs cleaning window and windowsill full of junk and mucky so might have to do that tomorrow as looking at weather forcast for then it going to rain all day so will try to get out today seedlings need planting out val

valval

rehab44 wrote:

THE ATTACK OF THE KILLER LADY BIRDS!!!!!!

Starring in no particular order:

A million ladybirds

and

Val

was not a pretty sight i can tell you and i look nothing like a green fly well not that i know of

valval

lovely sunny moring ,so thought get washing out do dishes then potter in garden. just trimmed one bush and it goes black is it the end of the world as we know it? or a shower that will pass over, tidy up cuttings start next bush heavens open is it rain? no. it flipping masive hail stones where did they come from end of may and hail.
in house made scones, stopped now bright out again shall i risk it. no chest hurting so just as well weather stopped me will eat something and take meds other bush can wait till thursday val

valval

put half a dozen cabbage plants in today beetroot and corn all doing ok not sure about carrots look ok ish have repotted tomatoes sorted flower potts and planter got loads more to do but started val

tillytop

Well I am now the proud owner of a lovely cover for my raised veg bed! It quickly became clear that nothing, and I mean NOTHING, was going to survive the sparrows so OH has constructed a framework with a net cover to keep the beggars out. Although it means I won't be able to grow tall things like toms or pots in the veg bed, it should mean that most other things will grow away happily without being decimated by sparrows. Hopefully it will also keep out carrot fly, slugs etc.

Harvested my first ever beetroots today. Have never grown or cooked beetroot so hadn't got a clue what to do with it, but luckily one of my gardening books told me. Had the beetroot cold with lunch and it was YUMMY!

Tilly xxx

frogmorton

Morning All

Hope you are all well and your gardens are flourishing???

Mine is going mad...at the moment struggling to tell the difference between my mangetouts and my petis pois??? :???: I know one is flatter but the leaves and flowers look identical!!! Is it safe to eat petis poits 'whole' incase l get it wrong????

BUT.....

Better news - am off to Gardener's world live at the NEC today!

Love

toni xx

charrisse

Was soo pleased this year to find that I was able to spend a wee bit of time in the garden. Weeded my few strawberry plants that I have in a homemade trough thing so I don't have to get right down to the ground.
Also my 3 blueberry bushes are really doing well and have a tremendous amount of fruit on them so managed to erect a bit of netting over them with the aid of some "new fangled" joint things. AND my one and only little rhubarb crown which I have completely neglected for some time, produced enough stalks for me to have a nice crumble pie.... :P
Now want to try to dead head and prune a most beautiful rose that my dear neighbour planted. She has passed away a while back now and never saw her rose at it's best. It's such a nice memory of her as she made me feel so welcome when I first came to live here.... RIP Ellen

frogmorton

Hi Charisse

Del and Rehab

back from Gardener's world....guess who l saw??


Del l got some green tonatoes too and runners and petis pois at top of canes.....please tell me Del can l eat the eptis pois whol if l pick them in error as flowers and leaves are identical :oops:

Charisse....maybe your neighbour CAN see her roses...who knows

Love

Toni xx

suncatcher

Not been on for a while we have been busy with baby chicks our first ones are 4 wks old now. We also have some a wk old who we are caring for my brother in law who wants to have chickens also. My hubby has built more chicken sheds in garden and i have decorated them with chicken memorability and one with a mirror in shape of flower and a cockerel tile both found at car boot sale.
I have been clearing a border for a memory garden. It has a pink theme. The idea came when i did my race for life walk in memory of my mom since she died one god parent has died also from cancer and another of moms cousins wife. and my other god mother has ovarian cancer has been treated with loads chemo they can only keep her going no cure so future bleak. I saw a Rose called mom in million and i ordered it from van muan gaarden catalog. will come in nov. I decided to re do a boarder. I put in pinks, lillys, alpines, astrantia florance, sedum elsies gold. I have added hebes grasses also for variation and a also have two climatis in the border. we have a enamal sink and will make it a water feature in this bit of the garden. I also like the easter island statues i bought grass for hair and flower necklaces round neck they make me smile when i see them in my garden surrounded by sand rocks shells and alpines. The soil is covered by black sacking with shale stones on top. I have more to do on it. still waiting for plants and saving for pump water plants etc to finish off. It will have lighting.
In summer i will be makeing a herb path It will be like a rail way line with callomile in between and lavender down edges to brush past.

christinac47

mirabella wrote:

whats with all this deleting stuff,was hoping to pic up some tips on the gardening scene,as I love it,always appreciate other peoples ideas and knowledge,one can never learn enough :?: MIRABELLA

i am just keeping my self going i have a nice garden fugussing on this as i suffer from ostesathertis in my spine just found this out will this get worse

frogmorton

Hi Christine

that's exactly what a lot of us do - and it helps us a lot and keeps us cheerful....pain gets you do down and it is lovely to acheive something isn't it?

Hi Joanne! Good to see you you have been soooooo busy!!! I have one of those sinks you are talkinga bout...will you tell me how you are going to make your water feature if you can???

At gardeners world yseterday l bought some ladybird poppies and some alium ambassador bulbs.

Love to you both

Toni xx

lindalegs

Have a lovely crop of tomatoes coming along and the leaves of the plants are very dark green and healthy ........except they have brown edges. What am I doing wrong? Are they too hot? Anyone know?