Well - I have finally finished tackling the Spanish things in the front flowerbed ...... I have pulled, dug and stripped leaves off everything that appeared to be one of them. I've used a cheese knife to dig them out from between the paving and now I've only got to go all along the other side of the path - shattered - I think at the end of the season, I shall remove everything and pot it up over winter and dig over the whole bed to have another blast at them
Had today off work - but I was babysitting my Grandson and it's been pittling down all day
However it brightened up in Norfolk at tea time so got over an hour outside. Digging up grass that seems to be breeding in every bed I have. Looking prettier now!
Wintersong....my mother-in-law declares war on those little sluggie fiends every year. She buys the cheapest 'value' brand beer she can find and they drink themselves into a yeasty grave!
I've got dog friendly grit that turns to goo in the rain, bio friendly pellets for special out of reach places and a nightly hunt with a pair of scissors. It's disgusting but quick death
had scaffolders here to wreck back garden as well as front now, they've knocked 2 lovely haelthy shoots off my generous gardener rose, chopped a montana off 2 feet above ground ( it was 2 metres long and had loads of buds) and plonked a board down on top of 3 young campanulas, on top of some direct sown nigella seed and the side of this metal plate has cut into very base of my gg rose, it's only a wound it isn't cut right in but still, after going out a few times and begging them to please be careful with my plants am v fed up. so, pricked out a few seedlings and have left them on sheltered windowsill outside with a clear plasti lid resting over them that...really really hoping they grow on, got enough setbacks with house surrounded by scaffold..oh yes and my 2 moved roses ( 3&5 weeks ago ) aren't doing much, was hoping the rambler would take off in it's new home, pruned bit more yesterday & now it's only about 4 ins tall.. fingers crossed evrybody please!
Rosemummy that doesn't sound good. Not looking forward to similar later!
Repotted my jerselum artichokes. And scared myself moving a brick for the pot to sit on. Turns out I have a friendly toad. I'm hoping he will eat some slugs and snails along with froggy on the other side of garden who lives under water butts.
I checked on my potatoes which I planted at Easter and have been under fleece. Some small leaves. Not grown spuds before. I reckon I've planted them too early but we'll see. Apart from that mainly been waging war on dandelions. I know this is a gardening forum so please forgive these next few sentences.
I have a great admiration for dandelions; how does something so tough grow from such tiny seeds? I am quite fond of their flowers and they do make me smile with their bright cheerful flowers but they are thugs and set seed as soon as your back is turned.
I've also checked my dahlias that are in pots on a window sill. One of them is doing very nicely, another one is waking up. I normally kill dahlias (not by choice mind, just ignorance and incompetence) so this makes a nice change.
And as an added bonus an Amaryllis bought for me as a birthday present has produced a seed pod. It's now split and is full of black papery seeds.
Hi all, today I shifted my 2 plastic greenhouses to a better place, rearranged some of my pot plants, tidied up 3 of my grasses . I done a slug hunt and only got 7 today. That's the least I have ever found, makes you think you are winning the war then surprise surprise...their back with a vengeance.!
Weeded, deadheaded the hydrangea, pruned out a load of dead wood from a clematis (and threw the dried twigs over the fence under the 'heritage hedge' for the birds to collect for their nests), emptied the window box of the pansies and got in just before the heavens opened. Sat and watched the feeders: long-tailed, blue and great tits, 2 goldfinches - and a cheeky squirrel hanging precariously upside down to get at the nuts. However, a pigeon dive-bombed him as he (the pigeon) headed for the water dish. (This particular bird prefers that for a bird bath rather than the proper one a few metres away!)
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Well - I have finally finished tackling the Spanish things in the front flowerbed ...... I have pulled, dug and stripped leaves off everything that appeared to be one of them. I've used a cheese knife to dig them out from between the paving and now I've only got to go all along the other side of the path - shattered -
I think at the end of the season, I shall remove everything and pot it up over winter and dig over the whole bed to have another blast at them 
Had today off work
- but I was babysitting my Grandson and it's been pittling down all day 
However it brightened up in Norfolk at tea time so got over an hour outside. Digging up grass that seems to be breeding in every bed I have. Looking prettier now!
Wintersong....my mother-in-law declares war on those little sluggie fiends every year. She buys the cheapest 'value' brand beer she can find and they drink themselves into a yeasty grave!
I've got dog friendly grit that turns to goo in the rain, bio friendly pellets for special out of reach places and a nightly hunt with a pair of scissors. It's disgusting but quick death
I'm winning just about
had scaffolders here to wreck back garden as well as front now, they've knocked 2 lovely haelthy shoots off my generous gardener rose, chopped a montana off 2 feet above ground ( it was 2 metres long and had loads of buds) and plonked a board down on top of 3 young campanulas, on top of some direct sown nigella seed and the side of this metal plate has cut into very base of my gg rose, it's only a wound it isn't cut right in but still, after going out a few times and begging them to please be careful with my plants am v fed up. so, pricked out a few seedlings and have left them on sheltered windowsill outside with a clear plasti lid resting over them that...really really hoping they grow on, got enough setbacks with house surrounded by scaffold
..oh yes and my 2 moved roses ( 3&5 weeks ago ) aren't doing much, was hoping the rambler would take off in it's new home, pruned bit more yesterday & now it's only about 4 ins tall.. fingers crossed evrybody please!
I know your builders pain rosemummy
Repotted my jerselum artichokes. And scared myself moving a brick for the pot to sit on. Turns out I have a friendly toad. I'm hoping he will eat some slugs and snails along with froggy on the other side of garden who lives under water butts.
I checked on my potatoes which I planted at Easter and have been under fleece. Some small leaves. Not grown spuds before. I reckon I've planted them too early but we'll see. Apart from that mainly been waging war on dandelions. I know this is a gardening forum so please forgive these next few sentences.
I have a great admiration for dandelions; how does something so tough grow from such tiny seeds? I am quite fond of their flowers and they do make me smile with their bright cheerful flowers but they are thugs and set seed as soon as your back is turned.
I've also checked my dahlias that are in pots on a window sill. One of them is doing very nicely, another one is waking up. I normally kill dahlias (not by choice mind, just ignorance and incompetence) so this makes a nice change.
And as an added bonus an Amaryllis bought for me as a birthday present has produced a seed pod. It's now split and is full of black papery seeds.
Hi all, today I shifted my 2 plastic greenhouses to a better place, rearranged some of my pot plants, tidied up 3 of my grasses . I done a slug hunt and only got 7 today. That's the least I have ever found, makes you think you are winning the war then surprise surprise...their back with a vengeance.!
Weeded, deadheaded the hydrangea, pruned out a load of dead wood from a clematis (and threw the dried twigs over the fence under the 'heritage hedge' for the birds to collect for their nests), emptied the window box of the pansies and got in just before the heavens opened. Sat and watched the feeders: long-tailed, blue and great tits, 2 goldfinches - and a cheeky squirrel hanging precariously upside down to get at the nuts. However, a pigeon dive-bombed him as he (the pigeon) headed for the water dish. (This particular bird prefers that for a bird bath rather than the proper one a few metres away!)