I never went around eating hedges and random leaves when I was a child. In fact peas and carrots were about the limit. Poison berries - I can understand the concern, but hedges??
Slugs don't care either
Oh I did ... still do ... hawthorn buds aka ‘bread s and cheese’ and young lime tree leaves are delicious ... OH used to worry but now he knows that I know what I’m doing and don’t eat things that I don’t know are safe. 😆
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@fidgetbones - that’s terrible, so sad to hear that so many trees have been cut down. I don’t know how it’s being allowed to happen with tpos on them. Perhaps the developer is prepared to pay the fines to get the project moving. Very sad.
@wild edges what is a tea bag plant? Do some seeds come in teabags? Why is that?
@wild edges what is a tea bag plant? Do some seeds come in teabags? Why is that?
Some commercial growers seem to use a small fabric pot or liner for plug plants. It looks like tea bag type material but is basically to make potting on plants easier and faster. I guess they can pot the plant up sooner without disturbing the roots. Apparently the bag should degrade or the roots should push through the fabric but in practice most people are finding this doesn't happen and it restricts most of the roots for years. I've had some that were a plastic mesh that cut into the roots and leave tiny bits of plastic in the soil.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
@wild edges what is a tea bag plant? Do some seeds come in teabags? Why is that?
Some commercial growers seem to use a small fabric pot or liner for plug plants. It looks like tea bag type material but is basically to make potting on plants easier and faster. I guess they can pot the plant up sooner without disturbing the roots. Apparently the bag should degrade or the roots should push through the fabric but in practice most people are finding this doesn't happen and it restricts most of the roots for years. I've had some that were a plastic mesh that cut into the roots and leave tiny bits of plastic in the soil.
Whenever I've had fabric type pots which are intended to be planted, I have always cut down the sides to make it easy for plant roots to escape.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Dark blue and orange - yes . Love it.
pale blue and orange - no
Whenever I've had fabric type pots which are intended to be planted, I have always cut down the sides to make it easy for plant roots to escape.