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Post by orpheous87 on Oct 28, 2013 18:23:31 GMT
My pumpkin died The vine was damaged and it just stopped growing. Then the snails started eating it and it fell off the vine. I'll try again next year - I resorted to buying pumpkins from Tesco again!
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Post by zahada on Oct 28, 2013 23:36:04 GMT
Everybody loves to garden because it means fewer trips to the store for fresh food. Your entire crop will be determined by the amount of pruning and preparing you do in the spring, so you need to make sure to start getting prepared today. Go out and plant! Reported as advertising!!!! The word 'garden' is a link to another website.
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Post by lotsofcats on Oct 29, 2013 9:15:18 GMT
Everybody loves to garden because it means fewer trips to the store for fresh food. Your entire crop will be determined by the amount of pruning and preparing you do in the spring, so you need to make sure to start getting prepared today. Go out and plant! do you like this lotsofcats because you can get a loan I wondered what you meant!! I didn't take any notice of the word garden being a link..........sneaky of them!
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Post by bectil on Jan 4, 2014 18:19:22 GMT
Thought I'd get this thread up and running again What is everyone growing this year? I've got various packets of seeds (some annuals, some perennials) which I am going to start sowing soon.
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Post by caz2golden on Jan 4, 2014 20:12:24 GMT
I am trying to get my herb pots through the winter at the moment, one is dead, the second is not looking great but I dont think you can kill mint so assuming it will kick start in spring. I mulched the borders so plants looking content! I noticed some bulbs are just poking through ground under prickly bush a couple of days ago. However lawn is currently a pond and looks like a ruby pitch post match! Any tips of getting lawn back to something usable. Think I need to borrow @sarahhounds green fingers as she definitively said she can successfully grow grass
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2014 21:36:42 GMT
I've got a few pots and containers in the courtyard which I've planted up with various tulips, daffodils, crocus and grape hyacinth. I like to grow things that are good for bees and butterflies so usually have a good mix of hardy annuals. 2013 was a little lacking in colour (despite the sun) so this year I'm planning to get some large pots and try growing some climbers like sweet pea, clematis and nasturtium up trellis on the back walls. I'll get some pics done as things start to grow.....just bare pots & compost at the moment with the bulbs just starting to sprout
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Post by bails on Jan 4, 2014 22:40:52 GMT
Weve got some purply flowers and some that are yellow and white due to pop out the ground this summer. All the same type, no idea what they are but they've got happy looking petals. Oh and red hot pokers as well and a few other weedy looking things that i'll probably pull up thinking they are "bad" flowers again lol. As you can tell gardening talent passed me by!
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Post by cazypops on Jan 4, 2014 22:42:44 GMT
I am trying to get my herb pots through the winter at the moment, one is dead, the second is not looking great but I dont think you can kill mint so assuming it will kick start in spring. I mulched the borders so plants looking content! I noticed some bulbs are just poking through ground under prickly bush a couple of days ago. However lawn is currently a pond and looks like a ruby pitch post match! Any tips of getting lawn back to something usable. Think I need to borrow @sarahhounds green fingers as she definitively said she can successfully grow grass You need to give your lawn a good forking all over to get as much air in it as you can, then top dress it. If you have bad drainage I'd use sand then brush it into all the holes you've made. then if needed reseed. If you fork every year and top dress with sand every other year you should get a good grass cover. Plus when you mow it always rack after even if you use a grass collector on your mower, this way it stops you getting moss growth.
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Post by caz2golden on Jan 4, 2014 22:54:32 GMT
Done the forking today. Its clay and a pain to maintain either rock hard or a swimming pool!! Its semi liquid at the mo so no chance with the brush!! I do use sand down holes and currently on the soil patches to prevent rugby boots but run out at the moment The grass does not live long so never have good covering of grass!! I do a mix of soil, sand and seed quite regularly during summer while trying to reseed the bits that die! I dont rake all the time and only a small section ever gets moss and I keep that under control I have never properly top dressed it so thats a good idea
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Post by cazypops on Jan 5, 2014 0:22:05 GMT
Done the forking today. Its clay and a pain to maintain either rock hard or a swimming pool!! Its semi liquid at the mo so no chance with the brush!! I do use sand down holes and currently on the soil patches to prevent rugby boots but run out at the moment The grass does not live long so never have good covering of grass!! I do a mix of soil, sand and seed quite regularly during summer while trying to reseed the bits that die! I dont rake all the time and only a small section ever gets moss and I keep that under control I have never properly top dressed it so thats a good idea Not sure If you can still get it on the net, but If you can get Gardeners World with Monty Don, he does a good program on problem grass.
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Post by bectil on Jan 5, 2014 10:10:18 GMT
Done the forking today. Its clay and a pain to maintain either rock hard or a swimming pool!! Its semi liquid at the mo so no chance with the brush!! I do use sand down holes and currently on the soil patches to prevent rugby boots but run out at the moment The grass does not live long so never have good covering of grass!! I do a mix of soil, sand and seed quite regularly during summer while trying to reseed the bits that die! I dont rake all the time and only a small section ever gets moss and I keep that under control I have never properly top dressed it so thats a good idea If I was you, I would leave your lawn until it has dried. Because your soil type is clay, instead of using sand, it will be better if you use organic matter because it holds nutrients aswell as improves the drainage.
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Post by bectil on Jan 5, 2014 10:15:52 GMT
Done the forking today. Its clay and a pain to maintain either rock hard or a swimming pool!! Its semi liquid at the mo so no chance with the brush!! I do use sand down holes and currently on the soil patches to prevent rugby boots but run out at the moment The grass does not live long so never have good covering of grass!! I do a mix of soil, sand and seed quite regularly during summer while trying to reseed the bits that die! I dont rake all the time and only a small section ever gets moss and I keep that under control I have never properly top dressed it so thats a good idea Not sure If you can still get it on the net, but If you can get Gardeners World with Monty Don, he does a good program on problem grass. I agree! I can have a hunt for some of my GW mags and I can photo copy anything about lawn maintenance if you want me to?
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Post by bectil on Jan 5, 2014 10:29:13 GMT
I've got a few pots and containers in the courtyard which I've planted up with various tulips, daffodils, crocus and grape hyacinth. I like to grow things that are good for bees and butterflies so usually have a good mix of hardy annuals. 2013 was a little lacking in colour (despite the sun) so this year I'm planning to get some large pots and try growing some climbers like sweet pea, clematis and nasturtium up trellis on the back walls. I'll get some pics done as things start to grow.....just bare pots & compost at the moment with the bulbs just starting to sprout You're going to have a lovely show in the spring, can not wait to see photos! I always grow sweet peas (I usually grow them in toilet roll tubes, so I've saved lots ready for the spring) and not last year, but the year before, the little wren and house sparrows loved eating the green flies off of the plant.
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Post by caz2golden on Jan 5, 2014 11:32:08 GMT
Thanks for the offer of help bectil and cazypops on the lawn Much appreciated. Anything that helps with dogs and lawns will be great. p.s love Nigel, Monty's dog
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Post by tonib on Jan 5, 2014 12:45:41 GMT
What lovely pictures of the sparrow in the sweet peas bectil. I like sweet peas as flowers but not so keen on the plant itself - it can be a bit straggly (depending on the light it gets) & its an annual - I much prefer perennials. I enjoy a garden full of plants & flowers but don't want to keep digging up & replacing them - I do enough of that with plants that die due to age/frost
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