Ticked off a few jobs this morning before the rain came
- pruned buddleia and other random shrub I don't know the name of.
- pruned blackcurrents - perhaps a little too much, but we always get too many and I am not even that fond of them.
- started too tidy out patio pots and planted various new shrubs in the veg patch. I decided to make some of it my nursery bed for winter until I make my new border.
- hubby made a start picking the apples!
Then used last of courgettes and 2 patty-pan squash for dinner. Apple pancakes for dessert!
I meant to ask you Daryl 2, why did your apples go to the tip and not in the compost?
Does anyone have a hot composter - they are meant to kill many of the diseases off and also have a much faster turn around. I keep considering it as even though we compost almost everything it takes a year or two to process and I find I still need to buy quite a few packs in the spring.
Neighbour at bottom of garden had one and it never really worked out that well , he is a really good gardener , his garden and Vegtables have won prizes locally but what doesn't suit one person my suit another
Jomilton, I did put about 25% of them in with my compost but there were so many that I was worried about the overall balance of green v brown and didn't want to create a pocket of mouldy apple sludge so decided to send the rest to the council green composter.
Took out some annuals which have gone over and swore at some vine weevil grubs. They are decimating my little plantlets.
Are the vine weevil grubs in your pots? If they are, you can give them a good drench with Provado which is very effective. Make up a couple of gallons of the stuff and put it in a big plastic box. Put your pot in the bath up to its neck for a couple of minutes so it soaks right in. I put a couple of canes or planks across the top of another box so that when I take the pot out it can drain the excess back into the box to be re-used. If you have lots of pots to do this can save a lot of waste through 'run off'.
Vine weevil , had a problem once used that Prov stuff but also put a good layer of hortcluturial gravel in top of plant to sharp for the Grubbs to burrow done into
managed a couple of hours in garden , bit of hedge triming and tidying up
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Anybody any idea what plants I can grow at the side of my asparagus bed , in the past have grown squash ?
Ticked off a few jobs this morning before the rain came
- pruned buddleia and other random shrub I don't know the name of.
- pruned blackcurrents - perhaps a little too much, but we always get too many and I am not even that fond of them.
- started too tidy out patio pots and planted various new shrubs in the veg patch. I decided to make some of it my nursery bed for winter until I make my new border.
- hubby made a start picking the apples!
Then used last of courgettes and 2 patty-pan squash for dinner. Apple pancakes for dessert!
Mulched around apple trees, gooseberry, blackberry and blackcurrant bushes.
Added horse poo to compost bin.
Pruned blackberry bushes.
Collected leaves.
Rain stopped play!
I meant to ask you Daryl 2, why did your apples go to the tip and not in the compost?
Does anyone have a hot composter - they are meant to kill many of the diseases off and also have a much faster turn around. I keep considering it as even though we compost almost everything it takes a year or two to process and I find I still need to buy quite a few packs in the spring.
Thanks. Jo
Neighbour at bottom of garden had one and it never really worked out that well , he is a really good gardener , his garden and Vegtables have won prizes locally but what doesn't suit one person my suit another
Jomilton, I did put about 25% of them in with my compost but there were so many that I was worried about the overall balance of green v brown and didn't want to create a pocket of mouldy apple sludge so decided to send the rest to the council green composter.
Took out some annuals which have gone over and swore at some vine weevil grubs. They are decimating my little plantlets.
Are the vine weevil grubs in your pots? If they are, you can give them a good drench with Provado which is very effective. Make up a couple of gallons of the stuff and put it in a big plastic box. Put your pot in the bath up to its neck for a couple of minutes so it soaks right in. I put a couple of canes or planks across the top of another box so that when I take the pot out it can drain the excess back into the box to be re-used. If you have lots of pots to do this can save a lot of waste through 'run off'.
Thought I'd got the hang of quotes but can't get it quite right this time
Vine weevil , had a problem once used that Prov stuff but also put a good layer of hortcluturial gravel in top of plant to sharp for the Grubbs to burrow done into
managed a couple of hours in garden , bit of hedge triming and tidying up
I can't do the quote thing either Daryl2.
Managed to find it anyway.
My bergenia and heuchera are in pots but my primulas are in a raised bed. I drowned everything in a bucket of Provado yesterday so here's hoping.