I retired some of the pots of veg today. I have come to the conclusion that the growing process is more important and rewarding to me than a large harvest. Lessons for next year include doing a more staggered sowing for succession.
What do you all do with the spent compost from veg and annual pots? I was thinking of mixing with leaf mulch? Is there any value adding to compost bins?
Don't add it to leaf mould @AuntyRach, which is best left to rot down and used as a soil conditioner/mulch on its own. You could use your spent compost as a mulch on other flower beds, under hedges or put it as you say, in your compost bin.
Is there any garden work more satisfying than digging out stumps? I've lost count of how many I've extracted in the six years I've had this garden. I'm currently digging out the remains of the escallonia hedge I had cut down two years ago. Another two stumps today and half way to extracting the next one.
What do you all do with the spent compost from veg and annual pots? I was thinking of mixing with leaf mulch? Is there any value adding to compost bins?
I sometimes use it make a sort of homemade bulb compost or succulent growing medium.
Cut down eucalyptus which was heading skywards after all the recent rain. Needed secateurs, loppers and a pruning saw. Chopped up and destined for the green waste bin. Planted pink scabious, salvia "Merleau" and salvia "Oriental Dove". Checked over young bellis plants that were somewhat soggy after all the rain and also sorted plants into those destined for overwintering in the coldframe and others next to the wall. Moved cuttings from greenhouse to coldframe and prepared pots for osteospermum cuttings tomorrow.
Hello , cut up branches for drying for winter fires 🔥 Re-cemented steps to stream, then a bit of pruning Also went t9 allotment to harvest various bits and a few small jobs A rather busy day , just having a beer before dinner 🥘 Much better weather than yesterday
So got home from the frozen wastes of Berwick upon Tweed (actually it was good weather) at 430 we were laden down with plants from Newby Hall (looking very nice considering the year it's been) and panic 😭😭😭 what to do 1st Hollyhocks despite being staked were laid on the ground, lupins were covered in aphids, a huge carpet of apples were on the floor, flowers everywhere needed dead heading and the compost heap seemed very sad as I'd not visited for 5 entire days. Back in at 645 and I've got things sorted compost wants turning tomorrow then I'll be happy 🤣🤣
30 pansy plugs arrived yesterday, have potted them on.Stripped out the sweet peas, there were only a few buds left, but the stems looked way past their best, picked the remaining flowers now in a vase, along with dahlias,chrysanths,sun flowers,cosmos, and millet.
Be careful you don't develop a compost obsession @Wilderbeast - actually it may already be too late! Reminds me of the gooseberry grower on Friday's GW, did anybody else see it? His only aim in life it seemed was to grow the biggest gooseberry in the world. Hilarious, his poor wife said they never went on holiday or did anything at weekends and she hated gooseberries. I'd have divorced him long ago.
I only did a little light pruning as I still ache from yesterday's pruning/strimming session.
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What do you all do with the spent compost from veg and annual pots? I was thinking of mixing with leaf mulch? Is there any value adding to compost bins?
Planted pink scabious, salvia "Merleau" and salvia "Oriental Dove".
Checked over young bellis plants that were somewhat soggy after all the rain and also sorted plants into those destined for overwintering in the coldframe and others next to the wall.
Moved cuttings from greenhouse to coldframe and prepared pots for osteospermum cuttings tomorrow.
Re-cemented steps to stream, then a bit of pruning
Also went t9 allotment to harvest various bits and a few small jobs
A rather busy day , just having a beer before dinner 🥘
Much better weather than yesterday
I only did a little light pruning as I still ache from yesterday's pruning/strimming session.