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Rock harvesting

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  • I'm looking at it in the picture and I'm realizing its not quite straight
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    If you grow something beside the path, it won't show😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Straight can sometimes be boring...   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • I used a string to keep it straight and a level for the top but I'm still learning.  This is my fourth path and it does seem each one is better.  Just trial and error
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Bent string?😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • my first attempt at laying stone just using decomposed granite sank! So I lifted it and set it on crushed limestoneji
  • Completely straight paths, I think, belong in formal gardens or utility areas. Your path strikes me as being characterful
    Southampton 
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    jamesholt said:
    Did you learn anything?
    Well yes, the reason it interested me was that lichen is one thing but it is also two things - a fungus and an algae, neither one can live without the other so they are an example of a symbiont - a life form that comprises two distinct but combined species. Each supplies vital nutrients to the other in order to survive.

    Its the stuff of science fiction* all around us :smiley:

    In fact there are a whole plethora of varieties, Im talking your “garden variety” in Britain, the leafy looking types were what I looked at, with a lux meter somewhere in a welsh valley.

    Unfortunately they are exceedingly slow growing, so imo they are something to enjoy when youve found them.

    *Literally the concept is covered in the episode released in Star Trek last week.  So much of sci fi comes from gardening, I have found(!)
  • Ok so I have heard of putting yogurt and other things on the rocks to encourage their growth.  Not true?
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