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Great job, happy growing!

Hope the slug eating frogs visit your pond :)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/13/dutch-lorry-drivers-uk-post-brexit-delays-dutch-hauliers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

More project fear.

Ah, yes that's a big difference. And it will take a while for the new rose to get to that size...

Weed-wise, we have a never ending supply.

Perhaps just cutting the seedheads for now and pulling them out near the plants you need to grow will do? If you have no weeds, your soil is dead and you won't have any plants either ;)

I still got 10 square meters to sort (ouch me back) it can wait until next year... enjoy your progress for this year :)

The rose will slowly do its thing and any insects will thank you for the wild spaces :)

It can be hard work until the garden is setup and only weeding / occasional replacement/bit of pruning is required.

You probably just needs break, I am not doing any more seed growing or digging this year after hours of clay digging, 100s of seeds, repotting...

Gardening tool and self defense tool ;)

Thank you!

Happy enough with the "forest corner" just need to keep on top of the weeds and get more bark chips.

I had to move some plants are they grew too big, I tried to space things properly but some plants just took off.

My hand trowel (from BnQ and several years old) has died a death, any recommendations for something indestructible?

Something not fancy that doesn't rust and doesn't split, there are lovely Japanese ones but this is more the workhorse type i need.

Yep, agree, attacks aren't good. Sarcastic memes, photo bombing, prank calls on the radio etc. let's keep it there. Same time, he just won't stop are we going to get attacks on people again for just being whatever he denounces? :(

I rather have all parties calling him an unbritish uncouth loudmouth for going against the official UK values of being a tolerant liberal society.

Also you get slapped with a formal court judgement and conviction for this, is he worth it?

Get ready for the milkshaking is violence (it is a little bit) but Farage's "Europe can't cope cos brown people" "I don't want Romanian neighbours" is fine crowds.

Good to see the English Green party calling out his rhetoric, any time be good to do similar Starmer...

Quick question: I can't attach images to posts. The text posts, but I get an error.

Android 14, Chrome.

Is this not supported and I should just install the app?
Or does it indicate a bug and I should bughunt and report back?

Thank you.

The life in the UK book i had to read to pass my uk citizenship test is pretty much this: oh well, Ireland was poor and there was this potato blight.

Who exactly ruled it???? FFS. The bit on the troubles sucks too. And that's a government approved book.

The Choktaw tribe helped with donations which is just heartwarming and lovely.

I'd add some pollinator plants and winter interest.

Pollinators.ie has lots of great resources for planting inspiration.

Herb wise, mint spreads like a 🤬 and rosemary and bay can get huge, but just go for what grows otherwise?

Or you can do themes, like
Savoury (chives, garlic etc)
Tea (Chamomile, mint,l
Spicy (hot peppers)
Fragrance and soap (lavender, soap verbena, bedstraw...)

Sycamore tree?

Not the most useful for wildlife either.

I planted two trees but one is a small pear and the other one in the feral corner neighbouring 30 Meyer tall wild trees. Even so, I'll keep it in check.

Awesome, glad they worked out for you :)

If they go nuts like in our garden they will quickly cover large area.

I can recommend big root geranium too, also tough and flower well. They flower earlier and then these take over :)

Might have some spares of those next year :)

Hard to take good photos, but this is the progress from the Weed Olympics into borders planted up, wildlife sink with froggos visiting, the "never mow May" corner and then "lawn".

Part of which gets mowed, the rest is on a wildflower lawn schedule.

The fences, cha...that's a whenever I feel like it job. Will need to ask the rear neighbours if I can cut back the ivy a bit before it takes down the fence.

Great idea, I don't have a sewing machine but I got an old pair of jeans, so will just cut it and use an old shoestring or something to tie it and use the pockets like that :)

Good question, as immigration laws are not devolved.

We may end up with people coming here, but we don't really have much capacity to house people as-is. And then they get stuck in Limbo here, because knowing the Tories they don't care. Problem for NI, great, as nobody here votes Cons anyway. (200 whole votes last time lol)

The anti-immigrant "they get all the houses for free" (yeah those idiots are everywhere) crowd is already venting on social media.

oh wow, looks amazing!

You just cut it once a year and weed it a bit?

I got hellebore, sweet woodruff, hosta, brunnera and lungworths in my clay shade. The woodruff grow fast and wants to do a lot of groundcover, the rest is more chill.

I have super heavy clay too, a workout soil indeed!

I pulled a lot of that out, and it is a lot less of a problem now. But you really need to get all the root out, as much as you can.

If you can careful hand dig that part out and pick out the roots that will help, it is one of the weeds you just have to add on the to-do, along with whatever plagues your garden.

No issues with that, drug dealers have found alternative supplies ;)

Literally everything coming from GB, EU gave an exception for labelling and retesting requirements for human medicine. Animal medicine not yet...

I have leafcutter bees taking rose leaf bits and lots of moths chomping, though they prefer wild plants.

Slug wise the blackbird is helping, ivy berries attract him and his missus to the garden. But I got SO many, I have to put my dahlia in window boxes to give them a chance.

They didn't eat the gladiola bulbs I left in the ground.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-68951063

Brexit not done with Northern Ireland yet.

Veterinary medicine supplies are at risk...

Oh cool!

Rebel plant: won't do what the books say :)