We have a 5 to 10 year supply of bamboo canes. Some are only about 3m long but many are 5m or so. A previous owner planted a row of Provençal cane, presumably to block the view from the paddock to the terrace and vice versa. It produces canes like bamboo but is deciduous so looks horrendous all winter and needs cutting down every year.
Woe betide the mower if you prang its blades on newly emerging shoots in spring. OH has manfully dug it all out and just an occasional wayward shoot pops up now and is easily controlled.
Have to say EVs don't get me excited at all whilst the cost to produce and charge them are so high and that's without mention of the horrors inflicted on the poor people, including children, mining for the minerals needed. Supporting such exploitation is even worse than buying clothes from Primark - all those sweat shops in India and Bangladesh exploiting women and girls with appalling pay, working conditions and lack of fire safety.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Is there a shortage of bamboo canes at your local GCs? All ours have shortages. One only has loose or broken canes that they aren't selling another only has them so long you'd struggle to get them home because they're about 4m long!!!
Take your secateurs and cut them in half when you get them back to your car (sorry, that's not very curmudgeonly is it?). I got some from B&Q a couple of weeks ago for my Dad. They had 4 foot and 6 foot ones then.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
They seem a lot for what they had. You buy them in bundles so 4m in bundles that look like 10 canes. More length than I need. A bundle of ten 5ft would do.
We're trying to keep local but at this rate I might have to go into the big town half hour away to check out homebase or bandq!!! Also Asda has gardening stuff too at times.
Tomatoes have a few growing but the end plant is in desperate need of a taller stick. Time to check the GCs out again then it there's no canes I'll take a pruning or bow saw to the hazel!! Don't worry, it's multi stemmed already but not sure whether natural or coppiced once.
BTW does hazel grow off if you stick a twig in like willow? It would be good if it did, I'd make a hazel hedge if it did.
Obelixx me neither, but I will never be able to afford an EV . My curmudgeon for the day, went to bed (have had 4 seriously rubbish nights sleep,) live on the outskirts of a village, quiet as the grave. Just got to sleep,woken sometime between 1 and 4 am, barking dog, outside, people walking by really noisy
I spoke with a mate last night who works in Vehicle Recovery. he was called out to a customer in a filling station with a hire car who couldn't remove the filler cap. It was a Tesla and he was trying to pull out the inside of the charging point under the cover. methinks lots of education needed.
Well I've just cleared a little over metre square patch of border at the top of the lower garden to turn into a mini veg plot for carrots. Apparently the variety we got can still be sowed outside in July. The only trouble was it's as humid as Burma and I ended up as mucky and sweaty as you'd expect? Worse than my hardest gym session where I had sweat patches on sweat patches. I've dug a 5m by 2m couch grass infested part of an allotment in less time.
A simple garden fork and brute strength to tweaze the intergrown roots apart. Repeated applications of said fork in slightly different places just to tease a little bit out. Oh and leave the big roots still in the ground. I needed the power of Heracles to lift some clumps. Then I find near the end, just when even the strength of Heracles would be waning there's stones. Feeling around I figure there's a lot of mid sized stones or a big one. Yep a big one. Levered it out to find out why the big roots weren't coming out. They came from under the big rock, possible the concreted in path beyond it!!
Well I've done enough! It's clear apart from loads of little root clumps and probably bulbs of all kinds including bluebells and possible wild garlic. The border was chock full of plants from shrubs to bulbs to tubers to iris to that type of spreading geranium to I know not what. They're gone as far as I'm concerned. Once carrots sewn we'll weed anything non-carrot out until it eventually loses the regrowth of those plants.
A good few hours work and a good idea nearly fulfilled. I still hate digging and weeding. If only there is a way to go from overgrown border to veg plot without digging. If this is what gardening a biggish, overgrown garden is I'm looking for a gardener!!
Seriously though, Nantes 2 carrots, better be worth it!!?
Just tripped over in GH and put elbow thru a pane of glass - a real pain in every sense of the word It's also raining - heavy, relentless and begins to remind me of 2013 Somerset Levels flooding.
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Woe betide the mower if you prang its blades on newly emerging shoots in spring. OH has manfully dug it all out and just an occasional wayward shoot pops up now and is easily controlled.
Have to say EVs don't get me excited at all whilst the cost to produce and charge them are so high and that's without mention of the horrors inflicted on the poor people, including children, mining for the minerals needed. Supporting such exploitation is even worse than buying clothes from Primark - all those sweat shops in India and Bangladesh exploiting women and girls with appalling pay, working conditions and lack of fire safety.
Take your secateurs and cut them in half when you get them back to your car (sorry, that's not very curmudgeonly is it?). I got some from B&Q a couple of weeks ago for my Dad. They had 4 foot and 6 foot ones then.
We're trying to keep local but at this rate I might have to go into the big town half hour away to check out homebase or bandq!!! Also Asda has gardening stuff too at times.
Tomatoes have a few growing but the end plant is in desperate need of a taller stick. Time to check the GCs out again then it there's no canes I'll take a pruning or bow saw to the hazel!! Don't worry, it's multi stemmed already but not sure whether natural or coppiced once.
BTW does hazel grow off if you stick a twig in like willow? It would be good if it did, I'd make a hazel hedge if it did.
he was called out to a customer in a filling station with a hire car who couldn't remove the filler cap.
It was a Tesla and he was trying to pull out the inside of the charging point under the cover.
methinks lots of education needed.
A simple garden fork and brute strength to tweaze the intergrown roots apart. Repeated applications of said fork in slightly different places just to tease a little bit out. Oh and leave the big roots still in the ground. I needed the power of Heracles to lift some clumps. Then I find near the end, just when even the strength of Heracles would be waning there's stones. Feeling around I figure there's a lot of mid sized stones or a big one. Yep a big one. Levered it out to find out why the big roots weren't coming out. They came from under the big rock, possible the concreted in path beyond it!!
Well I've done enough! It's clear apart from loads of little root clumps and probably bulbs of all kinds including bluebells and possible wild garlic. The border was chock full of plants from shrubs to bulbs to tubers to iris to that type of spreading geranium to I know not what. They're gone as far as I'm concerned. Once carrots sewn we'll weed anything non-carrot out until it eventually loses the regrowth of those plants.
A good few hours work and a good idea nearly fulfilled. I still hate digging and weeding. If only there is a way to go from overgrown border to veg plot without digging. If this is what gardening a biggish, overgrown garden is I'm looking for a gardener!!
Seriously though, Nantes 2 carrots, better be worth it!!?
It's also raining - heavy, relentless and begins to remind me of 2013 Somerset Levels flooding.