oh Sounds like I'm not the only one who detests overgrown ivy... well I'm about to head into the garden today to dig up the robinia frisia that I planted last year and has given up the ghost! and to plant a new one. then I'll mow the lawn and hope this sea fret burns back to reveal the blue stuff! Happy Gardening
mowing day. I decided that I should take over the pushmowing as my waistline in more in need of reduction. OH did the ride on. I'm knackered but I'm sure it was good for me.
Hi all went to a garden show on Sunday so brought lots of plants, which I arranged yesterday in the garden then planted out after a few places of deciding where to put them.
Been seed sowing today with a few wild flower seeds I brought, indoors as wet out and in leg muscle pain from all that walking around the show
Am growing eremurus for first time this year and am really chuffed that I have a flower spike. can't remember what colour though
have had GH day, sowing seeds, (wallflowers, lettuce) Potting on some plants grown from seed and potting some shoots with tiny roots off an Astrantia I demolished yesterday (by accident)
Started hardening off all my potted up plugs. Snapdragons still too tender to plant out. Not sure whether some of them got a bit windburnt . A lot of the begonias are still very small and underdeveloped. They were poor quality when they were delivered. I suspect their rooting systems were no good from the start.
Emptied old hanging baskets and garden pots, sieved out the weeds and spread the spent compost as a mulch in less visited part of the garden.
I have some questions about spent compost from old pots. It's about after I have sieved out most of the old roots - the sieve is usually full of 'microhairs" which I take to be left over from the old rooting systems of what grew there.
I am in two minds as to whether I should keep the microhair content to add structure to the the soil (is that right?) or ...
should I dispose of the compost in case the microhairs are from the weeds that grew over winter and might regenerate?
Q If they are from weeds can the weeds regenerate from even broken up microhair rooting systems?
Planted out some Verbena Patchwork (16 plants) into much larger pots. Flowers have already appeared on a few of the plants. Will photograph in a day or two once they've developed a bit more.
Washed out the 16 pots for re-use (looking for my halo!)
I do the same as LeadF with old compost too. Never had a problem. In fact the nursery I go to sells it- handy if you're making new borders or need to bulk up existing areas etc., and much cheaper than topsoil or new stuff.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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oh Sounds like I'm not the only one who detests overgrown ivy... well I'm about to head into the garden today to dig up the robinia frisia that I planted last year and has given up the ghost! and to plant a new one. then I'll mow the lawn and hope this sea fret burns back to reveal the blue stuff! Happy Gardening
mowing day. I decided that I should take over the pushmowing as my waistline in more in need of reduction. OH did the ride on. I'm knackered but I'm sure it was good for me.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Holliehock - that's a hedged garden, unfortunately a gradually dying hedge - going brown with the dreaded mite that kills leandii.
But I do have a wall - you can see a bit of it on the Garden Gallery thread (page 38) showing off my clematis.
Hi all went to a garden show on Sunday so brought lots of plants, which I arranged yesterday in the garden then planted out after a few places of deciding where to put them.
Been seed sowing today with a few wild flower seeds I brought, indoors as wet out and in leg muscle pain from all that walking around the show
Just found this thread (doh smiley)
Am growing eremurus for first time this year and am really chuffed that I have a flower spike. can't remember what colour though
have had GH day, sowing seeds, (wallflowers, lettuce) Potting on some plants grown from seed and potting some shoots with tiny roots off an Astrantia I demolished yesterday (by accident)
I finished planting my pots, done it in stages as the old violas were still looking pretty. Then I weeded and filled in gaps with annuals.
Started hardening off all my potted up plugs. Snapdragons still too tender to plant out. Not sure whether some of them got a bit windburnt
. A lot of the begonias are still very small and underdeveloped. They were poor quality when they were delivered. I suspect their rooting systems were no good from the start.
Emptied old hanging baskets and garden pots, sieved out the weeds and spread the spent compost as a mulch in less visited part of the garden.
I have some questions about spent compost from old pots. It's about after I have sieved out most of the old roots - the sieve is usually full of 'microhairs" which I take to be left over from the old rooting systems of what grew there.
I am in two minds
as to whether I should keep the microhair content to add structure to the the soil (is that right?) or ...
should I dispose of the compost in case the microhairs are from the weeds that grew over winter and might regenerate?
Q If they are from weeds can the weeds regenerate from even broken up microhair rooting systems?
Planted out some Verbena Patchwork (16 plants) into much larger pots. Flowers have already appeared on a few of the plants. Will photograph in a day or two once they've developed a bit more.
Washed out the 16 pots for re-use
(looking for my halo!)
should I dispose of the compost in case the microhairs are from the weeds that grew over winter and might regenerate?
Birdy13, I always spread used compost over my borders to act as a mulch.
Here you are Birdy -
I do the same as LeadF with old compost too. Never had a problem. In fact the nursery I go to sells it- handy if you're making new borders or need to bulk up existing areas etc., and much cheaper than topsoil or new stuff.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...