I intend to that with my Spanish bluebells, they're crowding out everything else. Other lesson I learnt yesterday was to remember to label your pots of seeds when sowing🙄. No idea what's what now.
Don't ask your local farmer for well-rotted manure. Mine said he had some and dumped a load of completely fresh cow muck onto a lawn (when I had tied a red ribbon, as advised, next to a slabbed area for him to put it on). When we moved it to the compost heaps we found it was absolutely full of big chunks of shillet, where he'd dug it off his yard. Ah well! Rotted it down for a year and mulched all my flowerbeds with it this spring, only to watch as HUNDREDS of weeds have started sprouting everywhere - obviously something the cows had eaten
Don't try to grow plants that won't thrive in your garden, just because you love them. It's not fair on you or the plant!
Get a pond, and a greenhouse, bigger than you think you need.
I planted a climbing rose,pale pink,which flowered for about a week!That had to go! And since then I made a few mistakes with short flowering plants,so I now grow mainly perennials and shrubs. How I agree with you Johnny Crosby......Ground force was a very "dating" method,even now Alan Titchmarsh puts in too much OTT stuff,some of it cringeworthy!! Autumnglory your miniature garden made me laugh!!😁😁😁
The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
I liked the tall purple flowers which grew by the gate when I moved into my house so, after carefully digging and removing all weeds from the existing borders, I swished the seed heads over them all, hoping one or two would appear. I've been plagued with Purple toadflax (Linaria Purpurea)ever since. I still like it (in other folks gardens) though!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Thinking carefully removing (ha!) and double digging was enough to get rid of perennial weeds.
Allowing OH to persuade you to put the raised veg beds on a very sunny terrace when you just knew it would get too hot in summer - thus having to protect it with ugly shade netting and water like crazy - and that semi-shady patch would have been perfect...
Planting ‘that will do’ plants when the local garden centre didn’t have what you had carefully researched would suit your conditions then later discovering what you really wanted was available online.
Sowing veg seeds too early.
Planting tulips in October when I should have waited until December to avoid tulip blight
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
"Planting ‘that will do’ plants when the local garden centre didn’t have
what you had carefully researched would suit your conditions then later
discovering what you really wanted was available online."
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Other lesson I learnt yesterday was to remember to label your pots of seeds when sowing🙄. No idea what's what now.
When it comes to moles, you may win the battle but they will win the war
Dont plant Vinca Major in a border unless you would like Vinca Major coming up all along your border indefinitely.
If you have ground elder, dont throw the ground elder on the compost heap
Don't try to grow plants that won't thrive in your garden, just because you love them. It's not fair on you or the plant!
Get a pond, and a greenhouse, bigger than you think you need.
Patience is everything.
How I agree with you Johnny Crosby......Ground force was a very "dating" method,even now Alan Titchmarsh puts in too much OTT stuff,some of it cringeworthy!!
Autumnglory your miniature garden made me laugh!!😁😁😁
Allowing OH to persuade you to put the raised veg beds on a very sunny terrace when you just knew it would get too hot in summer - thus having to protect it with ugly shade netting and water like crazy - and that semi-shady patch would have been perfect...
Planting ‘that will do’ plants when the local garden centre didn’t have what you had carefully researched would suit your conditions then later discovering what you really wanted was available online.
Sowing veg seeds too early.
Planting tulips in October when I should have waited until December to avoid tulip blight
I still fall for this myself.