Empty last year's tomato waste into the compost without checking for any escaped tomatoes. Next year's bean patch will be a sea of baby tomato plants.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."Â Sir Terry Pratchett
Plant Spanish bluebells in ANY garden - or English bluebells in any garden unless you have LOADS of space under trees!Â
A fellow traveller there, I see.Â
I have spent the last three days unsuccessfully digging out, yet again, the Spanish bluebells that I inherited here twelve years ago. Â Their bulbs are buried in Hades.
Same here, only it's 30-odd years. For the first several years I didn't know any better and let them be
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I use the slice off the leaves and forget about them til next year method. I've never been to Australia, but I suspect there may be bluebell roots dangling out of the sky in some parts🤔
Avoid valerian officianalis as well as well as Spanish bluebells, unless you want your house to disappear under a tidal wave of seedlings. If happy, they look lovely for a few months then lead an insurrection. I would avoid long reach octopus Vincas too. I'm still digging them out nine years down the line. (I didn't plant them).
From this gardens previous owner I have them to thank for Bamboo. I am not short of canes for a few years yet but my word what a task to dig it out. So my submission to this thread is don't plant bamboo in the ground. Someone will regret it.
Don’t think three years is enough time to develop a fabulous garden from scratch when you have inherited an overgrown wilderness with a bare scraping of crap soil that only the weeds like to grow in. A garden is never finished.
Don’t ignore your instincts, no matter what your non-gardening OH says. I just KNEW that very exposed, bindweed-infested south-facing terrace was the wrong place to put a veg plot.
Never grow more than one courgette plant.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Mum has got Spanish Bluebells, hyacinths and various other rampant bulbs in her rockery, which make hoeing the area almost impossible in Spring. So it's also infested with weeds.
She also has that orange montbretia, Crocosmia indestrucabilis horridus.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".Â
I guess another DON'T is don't have a rockery... unless you are prepared to weed it religiously. When weeds get the top side of you in a rockery, you have a definite problem.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".Â
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Same here, only it's 30-odd years. For the first several years I didn't know any better and let them be
I've never been to Australia, but I suspect there may be bluebell roots dangling out of the sky in some parts🤔
Don’t ignore your instincts, no matter what your non-gardening OH says. I just KNEW that very exposed, bindweed-infested south-facing terrace was the wrong place to put a veg plot.
Never grow more than one courgette plant.
She also has that orange montbretia, Crocosmia indestrucabilis horridus.