Something I don't feel like doing Hollie, such as bastard digging parts of my border. It's a long story of since I want to get rid of two large Acanthus which have invasive roots. This I know. ..but I have light soil and no patience so I'm digging it out and improving soil at the end. Prolly take me the whole summer but ready for autumn planting will be nice
Fun stuff today included up-cycling my old beehive compost bins and making a planter for my Mammoth hosta, which I removed from its old pot just in time. Boy was that a job and a half. Finishing tomorrow as it got late, have left hosta overnight in large trug with compost
Cleaned, oiled and sharpened the secateurs. I thought there were only 3 pairs in the shed. However I found 7 pairs! I must have been buying them without even realising.
Hello all , bought compost from Asda 3 X 70 lr bags for £10 so bought 6 , opened a bag tonight and seems ok , o/h also did some food shopping so not much time for gardening
Also went to g/c and bought clemaitis for allottment and a Hebbe for a pot in garden
Managed to cut lawns and couple other little jobs , finished day with beer & cigar as sun set before dinner
More sewing seeds, potting on, pruning, weeding, hrs of it, noticed bluebells are fully out & I may have a lawn later in the year. Just noticed lawn seed I sewed about 3 wks ago has germinated, really pls'd about this. Keeping the fleece on it to keep the birds & dogs off. Still cleaning out the green hse/shed. Hve hundreds of plastic pots I don't want, can't seem to give them away.
wanted to know whether wood shavings, or even sawdust, cld be mixed in compost, rather like chipped prunings. I suspect I shall be reminded that a lot of wood is treated & therefore not useable?
I have just tried mixing wood shavings with compost in a 50 / 50 mix and it makes a really good light compost. Kind of like a woodland compost. I got the wood shavings from a pet store, a large bag for about 10 quid, and being for animal bedding it has no chemical treatment.
I think it will be great for seed germination but I haven't tried it yet.
I believe even untreated wood chippings are not the best idea, something to do with robbing the soil of nitrogen. Not sure though, so maybe someone elsecan offer accurate advice
no gardening for me yet, it's been tipping it down all morning. No signs of slug damage aftersuch a wet night which is great, what's not so great is theflipping price of topsoil. Needed to buy 5 bags at 4quid each plus one bag of multi, plus my own gardencompost to give my beautiful hosta it's own raised planter. Glad now that I didn't fork out for a huge pot as well as the soil
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No, but patrolled the perimeter when I got home from work and it's all looking promising
Hope the weather's nice this weekend
Something I don't feel like doing Hollie, such as bastard digging parts of my border. It's a long story of since I want to get rid of two large Acanthus which have invasive roots. This I know. ..but I have light soil and no patience so I'm digging it out and improving soil at the end. Prolly take me the whole summer but ready for autumn planting will be nice
Fun stuff today included up-cycling my old beehive compost bins and making a planter for my Mammoth hosta, which I removed from its old pot just in time. Boy was that a job and a half. Finishing tomorrow as it got late, have left hosta overnight in large trug with compost
Cleaned, oiled and sharpened the secateurs. I thought there were only 3 pairs in the shed. However I found 7 pairs! I must have been buying them without even realising.
Hello all , bought compost from Asda 3 X 70 lr bags for £10 so bought 6 , opened a bag tonight and seems ok , o/h also did some food shopping so not much time for gardening
Also went to g/c and bought clemaitis for allottment and a Hebbe for a pot in garden
Managed to cut lawns and couple other little jobs , finished day with beer & cigar as sun set before dinner
Spring is definately hear in Lincolnshire
More sewing seeds, potting on, pruning, weeding, hrs of it, noticed bluebells are fully out & I may have a lawn later in the year. Just noticed lawn seed I sewed about 3 wks ago has germinated, really pls'd about this. Keeping the fleece on it to keep the birds & dogs off. Still cleaning out the green hse/shed. Hve hundreds of plastic pots I don't want, can't seem to give them away.
wanted to know whether wood shavings, or even sawdust, cld be mixed in compost, rather like chipped prunings. I suspect I shall be reminded that a lot of wood is treated & therefore not useable?
Jolly cold in Wellingborough.
Hi batanna
I have just tried mixing wood shavings with compost in a 50 / 50 mix and it makes a really good light compost. Kind of like a woodland compost. I got the wood shavings from a pet store, a large bag for about 10 quid, and being for animal bedding it has no chemical treatment.
I think it will be great for seed germination but I haven't tried it yet.
Thanks for that. Must admit I was thinking of going to a timber yard where you can get sacks of the stuff free.
Interesting????
I believe even untreated wood chippings are not the best idea, something to do with robbing the soil of nitrogen. Not sure though, so maybe someone elsecan offer accurate advice
no gardening for me yet, it's been tipping it down all morning. No signs of slug damage aftersuch a wet night which is great, what's not so great is theflipping price of topsoil. Needed to buy 5 bags at 4quid each plus one bag of multi, plus my own gardencompost to give my beautiful hosta it's own raised planter. Glad now that I didn't fork out for a huge pot as well as the soil