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I got the book from him, great for inspiration.
And they sell seeds too on the website :)
Old shower tray going in the garden this weekend to make a frog sink.
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The council gardeners were digging up the bed to replace the plants. Got 20 free bulbs, score! Now where to put them...
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I guess many people cannot empathise/imagine what it's like to be sent to Rwanda because "refugees" whereas refusing to sit with others to do a speeding course, suggesting you are "better than them" is easier to get worked up about?
That somebody like her who has been fired before and keeps breaking guidelines/rules is still in a job is not a good sign though, May at least sacked her.
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Was talking to one of the neighbours. His approach: chives, Californian poppies, ferns that blow in, and just let them seed.
Bar some weeding when plants come up in the driveway there's very little work.
Prairie gardening Belfast style ;)
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Lovely! :)
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Tall link things may be type of wild campion?
Try pulling up and splitting your dafs(if there are side bulbs), and moving them. The son of a breeder told me that can help.
Mine were ok but they all got fresh compost this year.
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In my experience it is very easy to propagate, just lift it, split it, ensure bits have roots and plant back in. Just ensure it's watered until it's settled in.
I lifted a stray aubrieta from the road which is now growing out.
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Cascading aubrieta? :)
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Forest corner is taking shape, sorted part of the slope...so much plastic and couch grass.
I think maybe they used plastic to try to kill the couch and then planted in holes in the plastic? But that doesn't work over rock hard clay. That geranium x oxanium lived, all the remained from the rest was plant tags.
No mow ever as no lawnmower may shows how wild the garden is. A wildflower lawn here looks more like this than with poppies and cornflowers, the bumblebees loves it anyway.
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Has anybody ever had their borage reseed / hybridize as pygmy borage?
I had planted some borage in the herb garden, I thought these were teasels when I lifted them. But now these look like this and I only planted borage officialis. The borage I have in my garden reseeded as standard boragr.
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Had wasps in a compost bin a few years back, 4 meters from the garden table.
Never any problems, never got in the house
Two other nests in the shed never made it thanks to that big shed spider we all have somewhere with a huge web and of unknown size... ;)
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Hope you have a good time there!
Ironically this EU mainland furrin' is stuck in Norn Ire, ah well, aside from the politics there are worse places to be.
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😂 (re ant powder bit)
If your neighbour is a keen herbicide sprayer it might have gotten to the rose...fingers crossed for it.
Our neighbours don't bother cutting the brambles ever and I have to keep fighting the roots and plants.
But also don't cut their lovely clematis and don't use chemicals so swings & roundabouts I guess.
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Big roses, you must have had them a while?
Mine are babies bar the half dead left behind one which is slowly recovering.
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Thanks!
I don't think it's that bad, I already feel a bit better. So whatever I have, I wonder if perhaps I just ignored it for a long time? That part of the back has been annoyed on and off.
And then of course one day went too far (and age doesn't help when it comes to joints...) but if I can mostly come back from a year no training with the pandemic I guess it's not such a disaster.
My bench still sucks though!! I wanted to add more upper body work which I can do at home, well, I guess better sort this first :)
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This is a USA site so check the plants work, but they have a lot of planting plans and inspiration :)
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Got my first physio, looks I did something that annoyed my spinal facet joints.
Stretches, bodyweight leg work only & only seated upper body work for now.
Cycling is not clear, the physio said leave it for now.
I think it annoys the sore area. But she thinks it may be not so much the cycling but because of the tissue irritation, but she said best leave it for now.
At least there is gardening ;)
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The metal weed scraper on a stick from BnQ is pretty good too :)
Huh, mine only sit in leftover sandy areas and dried out cracked clay, I have never seem them actually build anything.
My roses sit in a mix of compost and damp clay which they love, is the soil around yours very dry? My mum has dry soil which they don't love.
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Next: Should jwestland use herbicides on the couch grass that she cannot dig out as it's a foot deep through the clay/between the driveway tiles...?
:p
But since the ants live there, I guess it's going have to be pulling and hope I get it all.
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We have tits and wrens helping out with the roses, if aphids are the problem a bird feeder and a generous spray of watered down fairy liquid may help?
I didn't know ants could do damage, bar the aphid farming but I get those anyway. Ants or no ants, the buggers fly!
(i hope nobody invents a flying slug lol)
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I have loads of them, don't seem to cause problems for my plants.
Be careful with ant poison, it will also kill beetles and other critters that munch on slugs and snails. It is non selective...
If the problem is that they are in a bad spot, perhaps the soil is super easy for them to dig and there's a way to deal with that?
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Ouch! :(
They ate all my sunflowers...
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Tomato plants going out soon, hopefully it won't be like this... Orange skin traps and raised setup will hopefully keep the slugs at bay.
LFGSS
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of fixed gear and single-speed cyclists.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-65726130
Cyclist hit by a lorry, the article calls it a serious crash but also mentions nobody was taken to hospital. Very confusing, finger crossed they didn't get badly hurt.
That part of Belfast is very congested with narrow roads so usually not fast moving. It has a few confusing junctions but isn't really an RTC hotspot.