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Post by sweetpea on Jul 4, 2020 13:34:11 GMT
I received a pack of 12 different digitalis baby plants in the post from Hayloft - another thing I'd forgotten I'd ordered- so I had to plant them up in a couple of cell trays in the drizzle for now & put them in the greenhouse. Checked in the greenhouse & tied up & watered the tomatoes & cucumbers. You are an amnesiac plantaholic a bit like others on here
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Post by ladybird on Jul 4, 2020 13:36:51 GMT
attacked the bay tree suckers again (I really hate this tree ) cut ivy back and swept up leaves all at the top of the garden, looks like a pointless excercise with the wind at the moment I`m trying to kill my bay tree off grindle . I drilled holes all over the stump and injected stump weedkiller but I see new growth already sprouting i aslo injeated the stump of the damson tree I cut down last year but I see the suckers are flourishing up to two meters fro the stump .
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Post by Eli on Jul 4, 2020 21:33:09 GMT
I like my Bay shrubs. I cut them back severely every year to keep them short. They've got a lovely smell when you cut them
I haven't done anything in the garden for days, it's been too wet.
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Post by grindle on Jul 5, 2020 4:16:23 GMT
I can't kill it off ladybird as it screens all the houses at the back of me so I would lose my privacy, I know the feeling though I had a goat willow cut down in January and it's unbelievable how many shoots are sprouting (they'll be gone just as soon as it stops raining) Eli I like the small bays, but this is just of monster proportions, it was here before we moved in watered in the greenhouse and planted out 4 lettuce in with the tomatoes that was it
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Post by Eli on Jul 5, 2020 7:04:28 GMT
It's surprising how fast they grow grindle … One of mine got to over 6 feet tall one year when I didn't get around to cutting it back
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Post by SueA on Jul 5, 2020 8:13:31 GMT
They will be lovely SueA. Are they different varieties or different colours? Lots different varieties & colours Cherry some of which I haven't tried before so I'm hoping I get them through the winter. Didn't do anything in the garden other than watering in the greenhouse & the hanging baskets. Lifted a few shallots as well to put in a pasta sauce for tea.
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Post by Eli on Jul 5, 2020 19:05:15 GMT
Nothing done for AGES ! I wish the summer would return so that I can get on with things outside.
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Post by grindle on Jul 6, 2020 3:50:16 GMT
managed to get some pruning done
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Post by SueA on Jul 6, 2020 7:38:53 GMT
Because it was so windy & the sun was out in the morning the 'lawn' had dried out enough for me to mow it around 1pm so I managed to do that before the showers came back. Picked a few strawberries & raspberries for tea, not many left now & the slugs & birds seem to have found them too.
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Post by Eli on Jul 6, 2020 21:35:43 GMT
The birds are enjoying my raspberries too SueA ! Verry annoying
I tied a few things up that had flopped over in the recent winds.
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Post by grindle on Jul 7, 2020 4:09:57 GMT
cut and edged the grass and did some deadheading
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Post by SueA on Jul 7, 2020 8:45:11 GMT
I don't mind sharing with the wildlife Eli & I just cut off any slightly nibbled bits on strawberries! I stuck the sundial back on the plinth with 'no more nails' type stuff, planted out a heuchera I got a while ago, dead-headed the roses in the back garden, did a bit of weeding & cutting back & harvested some pak choi leaves & a Carmen cucumber. The fox was back last night too (I'll put a video in the wildlife section):-
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Post by Eli on Jul 7, 2020 9:35:43 GMT
I don't want to share my raspberries with ANYONE SueA !
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Post by Cherry on Jul 7, 2020 10:18:54 GMT
You will have to give your fox a name SueA. It is getting tame. My fruit was shared with the birds too. I have passed this on to Natasha. It is better than netting. We just have to plan for an extra plant.
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Post by grindle on Jul 8, 2020 4:16:30 GMT
did some work in the front, tidied up another bed where the work had been done, will need some plants to go in the gaps, planted out an agapanthus that came from mum's garden, poor thing had been sitting in a bag and had taken root, it had even started to flower, must be happier in the garden now
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