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Post by balc2 on Jun 24, 2024 4:50:14 GMT
Your gravel pathway looks very good, jellibeans! Just like a well kept lawn, a well kept path sets everything off!
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Post by jellibeans on Jun 24, 2024 7:13:44 GMT
Thank you balc2, that's kind of you to say..my theory is that hopefully it draws the eye away from weedy borders. By mid summer weeding is impossible to keep on top of. We get to see clouds of seeds drifting over on the breeze from the surrounding fields.
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Post by Cherry on Jun 24, 2024 8:31:00 GMT
jellibeans your beautiful garden has made me ashamed and I am going outside right away with the pruners to take the foliage off the bricks along the path. What a great example.
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Post by geumgrower on Jun 24, 2024 15:13:47 GMT
De-slugging the frames, but pain has beaten me once again.
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Post by balc2 on Jun 24, 2024 20:56:00 GMT
I had to repot a couple of my Dragon trees that have spent the last couple of years on one of the bedroom windows.I had noticed a problem with several of them, (there are (were) 8 from cuttings I'd taken over 3 years), I'd noticed this year that, 2 of them especially, were pushing the compost out of the tops of the pots. I realized that the roots were coming out of the drainage holes as well as pushing the root ball higher & higher in the pots. I didn't give it much consideration & just tamped the compost down a little (at that time I didn't realize roots were pushing the plants so high they weren't getting enough water & the rootballs had dried out. Though I left water in the pates under the pots the roots weren't taking it up.
The worst "offender" when emptied out of its pot I found had very thick roots that were winding around the base of the pot thereby pushing the compost up & exposing the water taking roots to the air. As I don't think it will make much difference to the plants I cut the thickest roots back into the compost. I then repotted it with a little more fresh compost. I did a similar operation on one other, though it needed a little less cutting back of the thick fleshy roots.
The first 3 pictures show what was happening to them in the bedroom window:
I gave them both a good watering & then put them on top of the basket that has the original mother tree that all the cuttings have come from:
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Post by SueA on Jun 26, 2024 20:19:53 GMT
Deadheaded the roses in the back garden again & planted out more of the annuals in pots & added a few more to the hanging baskets. Watered all the baskets & pots & the tomatoes & cucumbers in the greenhouse, water butt by greenhouse empty now & the others down to a trickle.
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Post by grindle on Jun 27, 2024 2:14:34 GMT
been tidying, weeding, planting to fill gaps, watering everything, the greenhouse hasn't looked this tidy for ages
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Post by balc2 on Jun 27, 2024 5:03:49 GMT
I haven't done much on the balcony other than watering, this is the first time this summer I've had to water so often. One Lobelia plant in the hanging baskets has died, it's rootball must have become exposed but it's impossible to see from below, I'd need to get up on a chair to check for sure.
All the Petunias are flowering very well on the balcony railings and are enjoying the hot weather of the last week. As they are dark blue they are not as "visible" as other colours.
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Post by Cherry on Jun 27, 2024 7:00:12 GMT
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Post by grindle on Jun 28, 2024 4:10:02 GMT
just finished putting the gravel down at the top of the garden and some watering, had to go and collect some raffle prizes for our local flower show next month
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Post by geumgrower on Jun 28, 2024 14:47:38 GMT
Weeding, watering, wandering. Shivering.
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Post by SueA on Jun 28, 2024 18:51:08 GMT
Mowed the lawn yesterday afternoon as rain was due today & watered the hanging baskets & plants in the greenhouse.
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Post by grindle on Jun 29, 2024 2:47:42 GMT
the marathon is nearly at an end, did the final grass cutting, weeding and deadheading, just a couple of minor things today and I can relax
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Post by balc2 on Jun 29, 2024 5:09:39 GMT
I've only been watering the last few days. But now that the heat has gone it won't be necessary to do it every day and I can get away with doing it alternate days.
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Post by geumgrower on Jun 29, 2024 15:37:54 GMT
Managed after 5 years to finally dig out the Vine stump from by the Car Port. Never produced any grapes from what our neighbour says. We let it grow the first year, but all it ever did was drip sap and cover the car with leaves. Big stump though. It gives us a nice little bed for another Rhubarb plant, if we can find a decent variety. Cleaned up and repotted all sorts of bulbs. Found a very sad looking Iris sibirica which needed digging out and moving. SWIAR found a nice Red Hot Poker which needs moving as well.
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