Am back-went to Lidl a well or instead-got 8 packets of seed for £2-nipped to B& Q as it is beige Wednesday for some violas for hanging baskets -priced at 20 for £2.80-get to the till -comes up as £1.40-less 10% got them for £1.26
Will now go and plant them up
Happy bunny
Is that Harrod as in posh shop Harrods-did they come in a green van?
Phew Back in for sausage sarnie. Water feature now has electrics Not up and running yet though - needs a something or other to work extension. He's out there doing blokey stuff . Found some self seeding plants but no sign of the poppies yet . Taking me ages to cultivate soil around all the babies but only a bit more to do and then sowing canary creepers and some bits and bobs.
Bargain, Geoff. Good idea on the thread as well.
Bunny, I can't begin to imagine what Olive smells like.
I'm announcing this here so I have to get my a**e in gear and provide evidence later that I did it Right, it's this. I have decided that there is so much to do in the garden that I cannot spend time this year tending veggies and things that need a lot of care and attention. I need to sort out the chicken-roaming / people sitting / washing hanging area and get on with re-planning the veg beds which I started doing last year. I shall be sad at harvest time but glad next year when it's all lovely and ready to go ( ahem). I will have 6 plants in the GH using the Autopot system and I will be kind to my soft fruit and herb pots but that is it.
Question - probably a daft one - about raised beds. Am I right presuming they need to be sunk in the soil a bit to stop soil escaping out the bottom onto the paths? If so, how far down? Also, would roots from nearby shrubs and next-door's conifers migrate upwards into the raised bed soil?
I have to go out now. I see the garden gallery is slipping downwards. Could someone bung a photey across before too long so it doesn't fall off the page?
Flo, they can just rest on top of the soil, don't have to be buried, once the soil is inside, they won't be wandering off anywhere. Regards to roots, you may find over time roots will invade, the hazards of setting it too close to trees.
My raised beds were just put on grass and levelled a bit to make them even. I then lined them with thick cardboard, I have some already, but I saw somewhere else on threads that bike shops are good for boxes. This year I am going to line sides with polythene so have been saving all my compost bags for this (thought need to get a staple gun) I did not do this with the others. I do understand about soil creeping out but it doesn't matter to me and in fact doesn't seem to happen so if you were worried you could spend money on their raised bed liners, or use landscape fabric to go across the bottom and up the sides. to stop leakage.
Saw that on thread on here as well
Just sowed loads of flower seeds, I have a feeling that my electric propagator is not working properly It is quite old
I have a feeling that my electric propagator is not working properly It is quite old
I know how it feels
Thanks for handy tips on raised bed lining - bike shop here I come! Bed and furniture shops can be a useful source of large pieces of polythene sheeting. No choice about closeness to trees but I'd rather be surrounded by them than not
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Am back-went to Lidl a well or instead-got 8 packets of seed for £2-nipped to B& Q as it is beige Wednesday for some violas for hanging baskets -priced at 20 for £2.80-get to the till -comes up as £1.40-less 10% got them for £1.26
Will now go and plant them up
Happy bunny
Is that Harrod as in posh shop Harrods-did they come in a green van?
Phew
Back in for sausage sarnie. Water feature now has electrics 
Not up and running yet though - needs a something or other to work extension. He's out there doing blokey stuff . Found some self seeding plants but no sign of the poppies yet . Taking me ages to cultivate soil around all the babies but only a bit more to do and then sowing canary creepers and some bits and bobs.
Bargain, Geoff.
Good idea on the thread as well.
Bunny, I can't begin to imagine what Olive smells like.
Done me baskets-all hung up
Sausage sarnie as well now
Thanks Bjay, I'll have a peruse.
I'm announcing this here so I have to get my a**e in gear and provide evidence later that I did it
ahem). I will have 6 plants in the GH using the Autopot system and I will be kind to my soft fruit and herb pots but that is it.
Right, it's this. I have decided that there is so much to do in the garden that I cannot spend time this year tending veggies and things that need a lot of care and attention. I need to sort out the chicken-roaming / people sitting / washing hanging area and get on with re-planning the veg beds which I started doing last year. I shall be sad at harvest time but glad next year when it's all lovely and ready to go (
Question - probably a daft one - about raised beds.
Am I right presuming they need to be sunk in the soil a bit to stop soil escaping out the bottom onto the paths? If so, how far down? Also, would roots from nearby shrubs and next-door's conifers migrate upwards into the raised bed soil?
I have to go out now. I see the garden gallery is slipping downwards. Could someone bung a photey across before too long so it doesn't fall off the page?
Right Flo-your plans have been duly noted-and will come back at regular intervals to haunt you
Cant find any suitable photos at present- it is very quiet in forumland-should be ok later
Flo, they can just rest on top of the soil, don't have to be buried, once the soil is inside, they won't be wandering off anywhere. Regards to roots, you may find over time roots will invade, the hazards of setting it too close to trees.
My raised beds were just put on grass and levelled a bit to make them even. I then lined them with thick cardboard, I have some already, but I saw somewhere else on threads that bike shops are good for boxes. This year I am going to line sides with polythene so have been saving all my compost bags for this (
thought need to get a staple gun) I did not do this with the others. I do understand about soil creeping out but it doesn't matter to me and in fact doesn't seem to happen so if you were worried you could spend money on their raised bed liners, or use landscape fabric to go across the bottom and up the sides. to stop leakage. 
Saw that on thread on here as well
Just sowed loads of flower seeds, I have a feeling that my electric propagator is not working properly
It is quite old
I know how it feels
Thanks for handy tips on raised bed lining - bike shop here I come! Bed and furniture shops can be a useful source of large pieces of polythene sheeting.
No choice about closeness to trees but I'd rather be surrounded by them than not