All my hostas are in pots - and have found one lot with vine weevil lodgers. Shame I don't have chickens - would you like me to send them to you TDC? Am considering liberating some hostas into a shady border...at least the soil's damp enough to welcome them!
Kate, my soil is very very dry - I often think I garden in dust. Thinking of putting hostas into shady bed with lots of leaf mould to help them along. Were yours a complete no-no? Did you have a shady spot to put them in?
The shady spot is against the fence and next to neighbours 3 Russian Vines so very dry. I assume that I could do them in pots if I really wanted to but I am trying to go with what grows well here.
Hmmm....challenging and irritating I'm sure. Talking of irritating, party political broadcast just come on the telly. I think I will empower myself and empty the dishwasher, so I can load it with used modules, rootrainers etc.
When I first moved into my house 17yrs ago, our next door neighbours did not like gardening, so it was a tip and there was no dividing fence. After a while, the tip overgrew into a jungle of brambles and bindweed, I kid not, the mountain of weeds stood taller than my 5'4 the entire length of our gardens. There was only a small trodden path to the washing line and the rest was weed.
After spending a few years trying to create a garden and constantly pushing back the bramble and bindweed, I gave up in floods of tears for about five years, until the council removed the occupants and sent in the JCB digger. They flattened the garden and installed a new family and we even got a luxurious dividing fence, so now I can grow flowers to my hearts content and whilst the neighbours garden is a huge improvement of football pitch scrub, the only snag is a crowd of screaming kids which does wrack my nerves, but I guess you can't win it all. Gardening hours tend to co-incide with term times
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All my hostas are in pots - and have found one lot with vine weevil lodgers. Shame I don't have chickens - would you like me to send them to you TDC? Am considering liberating some hostas into a shady border...at least the soil's damp enough to welcome them!
Wintersong wish I could grow Hostas but it is too dry here and I gave up the fight.
Geoff I have 3 Shirley tomato seedling but The First in the field said they were good outdoors?
Kate, my soil is very very dry - I often think I garden in dust. Thinking of putting hostas into shady bed with lots of leaf mould to help them along. Were yours a complete no-no? Did you have a shady spot to put them in?
The shady spot is against the fence and next to neighbours 3 Russian Vines so very dry. I assume that I could do them in pots if I really wanted to but I am trying to go with what grows well here.
We have just had a hail storm now sunshine.
3 russian vines?
He has 12 but 3 are on that fence
Hmmm....challenging and irritating I'm sure. Talking of irritating, party political broadcast just come on the telly. I think I will empower myself and empty the dishwasher, so I can load it with used modules, rootrainers etc.
Kate they should be but growing tomatoes outdoors is always dodgy-pot,growbag, or in the garden ?
Figrat- the pigeon could a round trip -pick up the grubs, drop them off and collect the tomatoes he is well trained
More rain next week
Ouch to the Russian Vine!
When I first moved into my house 17yrs ago, our next door neighbours did not like gardening, so it was a tip and there was no dividing fence. After a while, the tip overgrew into a jungle of brambles and bindweed, I kid not, the mountain of weeds stood taller than my 5'4 the entire length of our gardens. There was only a small trodden path to the washing line and the rest was weed.
After spending a few years trying to create a garden and constantly pushing back the bramble and bindweed, I gave up in floods of tears for about five years, until the council removed the occupants and sent in the JCB digger. They flattened the garden and installed a new family and we even got a luxurious dividing fence, so now I can grow flowers to my hearts content and whilst the neighbours garden is a huge improvement of football pitch scrub,
the only snag is a crowd of screaming kids which does wrack my nerves, but I guess you can't win it all. Gardening hours tend to co-incide with term times 
Wintersong sounds like a nightmare.
figrat do you put gardening stuff in the dishwasher???
Geoff they will go in pots and if I have too many in the garden, just thought I would try another variety to see if that was where I was going wrong.