Gardens & Gardening

[tiger_rick]

Pulled some carrots for tea the other day. Size of this fucker. Bigger than my head. Nearly.

[SuperBacon]

Really great to see Tyson Fury looking so well. 

[tiger_rick]

42 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Really great to see Tyson Fury looking so well. 

Not heard that before....

[SuperBacon]

17 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

Not heard that before....

I'm surprised as the resemblance is remarkable

[Loki]

4 hours ago, deathrey said:

Thanks @LokiI'll pop to the Garden Centre when I get started. I should still pull the weeds first right? 

I would just to be sure.

[King Coconut]

If you have enough cardboard lying round you can just cover the whole bed, weeds and all, with cardboard and cover that with compost. The cardboard will kill the current weeds, suppress any new growth and decompose by Spring.

[deathrey]

Following the advice of you lovely gentleman here, we covered the vegetable patch with cardboard and mulch last year, except for the strawberry and raspberry plants. 

It's still all intact so we've decided that this year we are going to leave it as it is to keep the weeds at bay and focus on sorting out the grass (got a lovely new lawnmower) and the plants and bushes in the garden. We are still going to grow some veg but will keep it all in the greenhouse to keep it manageable.

Last week I planted 3 different varieties of tomato plants and some baby peppers. Put them in little pots on the kitchen window and covered them with cling film as recommended by my sister to keep them moist. I went to do a little inspection this morning and my San Marzano tomato's have started to grow, I have 5 little shoots that have come through. Hopefully they continue to grow, I'm quite excited as this is the first time I've grown anything from scratch. Has anyone else used the cling film method? As the shoots have now come through the soil, I've removed the cling film. Was this the right thing to do? They are still tiny, I don't want them to stop growing. 

Edited March 14, 2024 by deathrey

[King Coconut]

Once they've germinated light becomes much more important than moisture, so the film can definitely come off now but it's still important to keep the soil moist for a bit.

[deathrey]

Cheers @King Coconut. I'll keep the cling film off then

[Bus Surfer]

We rollin'! 

Started a bit later this year. Gone with Dwarf Beans, Runners, Broccoli, Tomato's, Peas and some Stawberrys. 

Greenhouse isn't that great but should be fine for this year until I get get something more robust. 

[FLips]

Our crops are starting to reward us and we’re thrilled. We’ve harvested our First Early potatoes, I believe they’re Rocket variety. We still have our Seconds in but missed the chance at a main crop as we didn’t buy the seeding spuds at the time.

Our Lettuce, Radish, Yellow Tumbling Toms and Symphony Strawberries are fruiting and ripe for the picking too. We’ve had some lovely fresh produce off them and replanted more radish.

Everything else is coming together well. We have Chocolate Cherry, Red Tumbling Toms and Beef variety tomatoes showing green fruits now, we got a couple of Snack Cucumbers a while back and they’re taking a while to fruit again. I think down to us leaving everything in the greenhouse too long we had fuzziness issues with them but they’re healing outside now the chance of frost has passed back in May.

We have courgettes, carrot, parsnip, pumpkin, sweet potato, alpine strawberries also planted so a lot going on but touch wood everything is cropping this year.

We also have a massive bramble bush growing at our back gate which has loads of flowers on so hopefully come autumn I can make a decent pie.

[waters44]

I moved house recently and this is the hedge out the front. Is there anything I can do to sort out the brown sections?

[Bus Surfer]

First Kale of the year! 

Tomato plants have flown up this last week and they've just started to flower. 

Broccoli and Green Beans to come! 

I love this shit. 

[Tim Healys Chutney Spoon]

Very nice. 

 

My son has helped me to make a video with his drone for our care home to potentially win a £20k garden makeover....got a call from my boss this morning to say we are shortlisted nationally for the prize and if we're in the top 3 then we get the prize! Going to be hard work now but going to do it!

[Rossman]

On 7/6/2022 at 7:57 AM, Rossman said:

We moved into our house in May 2021. When we viewed the house, it had a fairly grassy lawn. When we got the keys. This is what we saw

It's took a year and it's been in various stages of patchy, balding, weeding and feeding it. Using all different types of lawn seed, to try and get it to grow. But it's getting there.

 

3 years on. Last year, I ripped out a lot of the trees and bushes in the garden, which had been planted in front of a wobbly fence ravaged by the elements and vermin. Fence frame and boards had to be replaced. I took out a lot of the slabs and filled in the pond as we have a couple of young children now. Levelled the two raised borders in the corners which had been put in badly and caused flooding, drainage issues when it heavily rained. I really wanted to extend the amount of grass so my kids had somewhere to run around. The next thing will be to get the fence painted and add more plants and flowers for colour.  In the big half whisky barrell (£25 from B&M!) are raspberries. In the 3 pots in the left corner is lavender. 3 pots in the right corner was my miserable attempt to grow tulips from bulb.