Hi Perki, my garden isn't that big but this year I need to replace the soil in the borders in my greenhouse (takes about 20 bags), and re-invigorate my three 5x2m veg beds with the farm yard manure. I'm also raising a couple of my flower borders by about 6 inches (I garden on clay which just keeps 'eating' all of the top dessing I keep putting on.) I also have a ton of containers. All I can guarantee is that I'll still run out of compost at some point later in the year!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
How often do you change the compost in your greenhouse Bob? i got a small 6x3 bed inside the GH, i got the same compost in from last year I was going to put some FYM to reinvigorate it for this year, replace all of it at the end of the season
I do the same as you Perki but every 3 or 4 years replace the lot. Part of the reason for doing this is that Ash tree roots growing under the GH keep growing upwards into the beds and sucking out nutrients (and a lot of water!) and I can't cut them back properly without clearing the borders out completely. Even though I line the bottoms and sides with 2 or 3 layers of old compost bags, the Ash tree roots still come through!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I put my GH next/on a Ash tree as well , it took me two years to kill the dam thing. I dug nearly all the root out first year thinking I killed it only for it to return.
no gardening for the last 2 weeks as I've been laid up ( ripped knee cap cartilage) on a sun bed in The Gambia, but I was given about 400 seeds of canna warszewiczii
I did very little today, as I only just started gardening yesterday. Yesterday I dug a hole for a forsythia I had bought and when I woke up this morning, I wish I had put numbers on my bones yesterday. Today I planted something....."carpatia" into a planter, bought another shrub and dreading digging a hole for that one tomorrow.
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Hi Perki, my garden isn't that big but this year I need to replace the soil in the borders in my greenhouse (takes about 20 bags), and re-invigorate my three 5x2m veg beds with the farm yard manure. I'm also raising a couple of my flower borders by about 6 inches (I garden on clay which just keeps 'eating' all of the top dessing I keep putting on.) I also have a ton of containers. All I can guarantee is that I'll still run out of compost at some point later in the year!
No gardening today. I can't swim
In the sticks near Peterborough
How often do you change the compost in your greenhouse Bob? i got a small 6x3 bed inside the GH, i got the same compost in from last year I was going to put some FYM to reinvigorate it for this year, replace all of it at the end of the season
I do the same as you Perki but every 3 or 4 years replace the lot. Part of the reason for doing this is that Ash tree roots growing under the GH keep growing upwards into the beds and sucking out nutrients (and a lot of water!) and I can't cut them back properly without clearing the borders out completely. Even though I line the bottoms and sides with 2 or 3 layers of old compost bags, the Ash tree roots still come through!
Bob you need that stuff they use as a barrier for roots of bamboo
I put my GH next/on a Ash tree as well , it took me two years to kill the dam thing. I dug nearly all the root out first year thinking I killed it only for it to return.
Thats a good idea GG
Soz Tootles - wrote my last post in a vowel heavy Derby accent
Lived in various parts of the NE for getting on 20 years now and I mimic the Mackem's a bit...work in Hartlepool though - small world
no gardening for the last 2 weeks as I've been laid up ( ripped knee cap cartilage) on a sun bed in The Gambia, but I was given about 400 seeds of canna warszewiczii
http://www.hartcanna.co.uk/warc_7366S.jpeg
by the owner of a beach shack.
Doc has signed me off for another 2 weeks
I did very little today, as I only just started gardening yesterday. Yesterday I dug a hole for a forsythia I had bought and when I woke up this morning, I wish I had put numbers on my bones yesterday. Today I planted something....."carpatia" into a planter, bought another shrub and dreading digging a hole for that one tomorrow.