@Rojas have you tried contacting the company you bought the MPC from and asking them to collect the pallets? The blue ones are legally owned by The CHEP Company and so should be returned to them, if unwanted, by the Company who provided you with the compost. If you contact the company you ordered the bulk bag of MPC from they should come and get the pallets from you. No promises though.
Last year MPC bulk bags got delivered with a blue/red painted pallets and we really struggled to get rid of them. We took them to recycling centres and many wooden recycling places and no one has agreed to take them. I have been told the only way to dispose them are to throw in Bonfires and luckily we have managed to put it in the Skip with their permission. I have just placed an order for the Jumbo MPC bag and they've said they can't guarantee that it will be sent with a pallet unpainted. Does anyone come across a similar situation? how do you dispose the pallets please? Many thanks
Those are pool pallets . Blue is CHEP and red is LPR. They are sustainable and circular. They refused to take them because their is a property title on it.
CHEP collect their pallet normally so a phone call is normally enough. LPR I assume also.. please do not put them in on a bonfire. They are designed to do a a lot of circles with repair.
Finished all the rose pruning now, ended with the biggie!
Malvern Hills
Lost a lot of laterals at mid level this year, so will need to tie in some new growth to fill those bare sections.
Ive lowered the bottom cane in the picture above from the top wire to the bottom and done a weird criss cross to try and get something going along the top. Been waiting for years for some new canes to tie in there, realised I’ll have to just work with what I’ve got.
@PeterAberdeen Coming along nicely... I like your lawn edge, and wavy shape.. I do like to see a good edging.. when we had a lawn my husband got a strimmer and used to do a decent edging as he knew it irritated me if it wasn't done properly.. we don't have lawn now, but it's something I used to fuss about I have to admit..
Can anyone offer some advice, please? I had Gertrude Jekyll in a big border at the back of the garden and last year's weather managed to kill it off. Before I plant another rose in the same border (not in the same place ) I thought I would do some investigating to see why this particular area causes this problem (its not the first plant which hasn't survived in there).
The first 6" of soil is fine, but after that, there is clay, which gets more dense until about 15" down. At that sort of depth there seems to be a layer of something like road base, it's not solid but it's pretty hard to get a fork into.
I suppose what I'm really asking is, is there any point in planting a rose in that area ,will the roots cope with that or should I just put something in that doesn't put down deep roots.
@Suesyn That wouldn't worry me at all... I've got roses here in a border with remnants of road base underneath, it's reclaimed from an old road.. I've also developed a rose garden overlying a bedrock of granite with just 4-6 inches of top soil [new build].. I've also planted climbing roses in just 1 foot of soil overlying a pan of concrete..
What you have there seems reasonable enough to me, but I'm not the one doing the digging.. the roots will find their way around, usually aiming in a north or west direction when established.. Sorry you lost your GJ rose though,..
Fortunately I had taken a cutting which is doing well, it's about 30" tall and had several flowers last year. It's the first time I have successfully done so so I was quite pleased with myself. Unfortunately, it's started a bit of an obsession and I'm going to end up with more roses than I have room for.
I'm going to plant the new rose (Penelope Hobhouse) a bit nearer the front of the border because if it wasn't the rubbish soil which caused Gertrude Jekyll to keel over it must have been lack of water and it will be easier to water if its a bit more accessible.
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please do not put them in on a bonfire. They are designed to do a a lot of circles with repair.
Malvern Hills
Ive lowered the bottom cane in the picture above from the top wire to the bottom and done a weird criss cross to try and get something going along the top. Been waiting for years for some new canes to tie in there, realised I’ll have to just work with what I’ve got.
My Malvern doesn’t do basal growth!
@PeterAberdeen
Coming along nicely... I like your lawn edge, and wavy shape.. I do like to see a good edging.. when we had a lawn my husband got a strimmer and used to do a decent edging as he knew it irritated me if it wasn't done properly.. we don't have lawn now, but it's something I used to fuss about I have to admit..
That wouldn't worry me at all... I've got roses here in a border with remnants of road base underneath, it's reclaimed from an old road.. I've also developed a rose garden overlying a bedrock of granite with just 4-6 inches of top soil [new build].. I've also planted climbing roses in just 1 foot of soil overlying a pan of concrete..
What you have there seems reasonable enough to me, but I'm not the one doing the digging.. the roots will find their way around, usually aiming in a north or west direction when established..
Sorry you lost your GJ rose though,..
'Scepter'd Isle'.. one of the better Austin's I've had over the years.. I presume they still sell it..
I'm really looking forward to this one, in its 2nd year...