I've been in the GH potting up my home grown seeds, Lobelia, Isotoma, Penstemons, Petunias, Antirrhinums, Cosmos, Ageratum and some tomatoes. Together with the plug plant delivery I think I have 520 babies.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
my plans have been scuppered by a buried problem rather than the light drizzle the dulled the skies this afternoon
this winter gone, I decided to get rid of my two large Acanthus as I want something more elegant, it's a great plant but ridiculously invasive if you're not on top of it which I have been but now I want change. Neither of them is less than 10yrs old and I've been digging out root since January.
That's fine on my soil and there are no other large plants in those two zones, except I encroached today and barely had uncontaminated soil, (each piecend of root will try to establish, so plenty of digging for me yet, and a summer of spraying. I knew this anyway but it may force me to pot up a lot more than I bargained for.
Still, only a few extra pots to get rid of this lovely but lethal plant
Lovely day here, used some feather edge fencing boards to raise the edges of the borders in the polytunnel a few inches to prevent soil spilling over. Will be sowing carrots and parsnips in there tomorrow instead of the outside raised beds. Did more weeding and noticed the delphiniums were up a few inches, so the organic slug pellets worked.
Most of the brassica seedlings I planted over Easter are up - must post pics on the seedling thread.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Organic pellets never used to work for me but this year I've beenusing a product called earth matters slug blocker granules by Westland. 100% safe for pets and wildlife plus kids. It's interesting stuff, like a dry grit at first then after rain, when the slugs come out it swells like thick porridge, textured but gooey. I believe they dislike the texture.
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I've been in the GH potting up my home grown seeds, Lobelia, Isotoma, Penstemons, Petunias, Antirrhinums, Cosmos, Ageratum and some tomatoes. Together with the plug plant delivery I think I have 520 babies.
You have been busy Lizzie
my plans have been scuppered by a buried problem rather than the light drizzle the dulled the skies this afternoon
this winter gone, I decided to get rid of my two large Acanthus as I want something more elegant, it's a great plant but ridiculously invasive if you're not on top of it which I have been but now I want change. Neither of them is less than 10yrs old and I've been digging out root since January.
That's fine on my soil and there are no other large plants in those two zones, except I encroached today and barely had uncontaminated soil, (each piecend of root will try to establish, so plenty of digging for me yet, and a summer of spraying. I knew this anyway but it may force me to pot up a lot more than I bargained for.
Still, only a few extra pots to get rid of this lovely but lethal plant
Sowing sowing sowing . And more tomorrow. Rained all day .
sowing for me too.
I don't do seeds
Plugs...cuttings...bulbs, rescue jobs, all work fine for me but seeds is certain death
Weeding, weeding, weeding......but I can see light at the end of the tunnel
. Very pleased to find my echinacea emerging before the slugs noticed
Lovely day here, used some feather edge fencing boards to raise the edges of the borders in the polytunnel a few inches to prevent soil spilling over. Will be sowing carrots and parsnips in there tomorrow instead of the outside raised beds. Did more weeding and noticed the delphiniums were up a few inches, so the organic slug pellets worked.
Most of the brassica seedlings I planted over Easter are up - must post pics on the seedling thread.
Organic pellets never used to work for me but this year I've beenusing a product called earth matters slug blocker granules by Westland. 100% safe for pets and wildlife plus kids. It's interesting stuff, like a dry grit at first then after rain, when the slugs come out it swells like thick porridge, textured but gooey. I believe they dislike the texture.
It's working so far