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Post by ladybird on Mar 20, 2021 15:30:57 GMT
Hi there ladybird . I won't be putting the polytunnel up; it's too big and would dominate the garden. It's in pieces in my garage. Anyone want a polytunnel ?  As for the pictures: I used photoshop. I googled images of 'lawn', 'soil', 'welsh onions', 'chillis' and 'tomatoes', and copy/pasted them into my garden pictures. Then I used the stretch/skew/perspective features - along with masking - to blend the grass etc over my existing garden Who's a clever roofgardener, then [/quote] That is clever Roofy, I don't have photo shop but I might have a go with page plus its very versatile. sorry to hear about the poly tunnel , I`m sure you`ll miss it. do get one of those 4/5 tier plastic covered shelving greenhouses though, I think they are excellent for the price . |
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 21, 2021 18:36:02 GMT
Roofus, isn`t there a rear garden? Hi there daitheplant, Umm.. that IS the rear garden. I don't have a front garden; there is a covered porch area where the wheelybins are stored, but then its the road  Well, I SAY road... it's pretty much the end of a cul-de-sac
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Post by daitheplant on Mar 21, 2021 19:07:56 GMT
You`ll soon get the garden as you want it.  |
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 23, 2021 9:24:54 GMT
Well, I set up my trail camera a few days ago, pointing (I thought) at my bird table. Got some video of blackbirds, robins and starlings. Sadly, I didn't set it up properly; it could see my neighbours door, so it got triggering whenever they came outside ... resulting in megabytes of blank recordings. DOH !
I'll reposition it tonight !
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 30, 2021 11:54:30 GMT
A New Beginning - the Start Small, baby steps. I've just mowed the bulk of the lawn, and made a start on weeding the border. And I've planted some ONIONS. I'm hoping to plant many more (and extend the weeded area) this Easter Weekend  | (Click for larger onions) |
I also have a Big Plan on what to do with one of my (dismantled) workbenches.. more of that soon So.. some spadework ahead of me.. but I'm really looking forwards to it !
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Post by grindle on Mar 31, 2021 3:53:34 GMT
a great start |
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Post by roofgardener on Apr 6, 2021 9:10:29 GMT
Well, I had a very productive Easter Bank Holiday. I managed to re-assemble one of my old polytunnel workbenches, and I've put it in my garden as a potting table
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Post by Eli on Apr 6, 2021 18:11:49 GMT
Hi roofgardener, congratulations on your new garden. It looks like it faces south so you'll have lots of sunshine.
I like your plans, it's nice for you to have your own place where you can do what you want.
Great idea to have a potting bench. I hope we get plenty of sunny weather for you to get on.
The bachelor's buttons shrub is Keria japonica, and the second one is Forsythia.
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Post by grindle on Apr 7, 2021 4:12:09 GMT
looking good, you'll have it how you want it in no time |
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Post by roofgardener on Apr 7, 2021 9:58:46 GMT
Hi roofgardener, congratulations on your new garden. It looks like it faces south so you'll have lots of sunshine.
I like your plans, it's nice for you to have your own place where you can do what you want.
Great idea to have a potting bench. I hope we get plenty of sunny weather for you to get on.
The bachelor's buttons shrub is Keria japonica, and the second one is Forsythia. Oooooh right - thanks for that Eli Yes; it is brilliant to have total control of the garden. And its south-facing orientation means that most of the garden gets sun at SOME point during the day, even in April. And the house wall (where my potting table is) gets it MOST of the day, as does most of the border. Happy days
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Post by roofgardener on Jul 2, 2021 11:35:15 GMT
Well folks, I must apologise for the huge hiatus. Also the dissapearance of all my pictures, going back to 2016 !!! I lost my job ,but found a new one !!! SAdly, I used my work servers to host Roofgardener.org.uk, and lost access to it when I lost my job. I've got backup copies of most of the photographs, BUT... I can't get control back of the domain (yet), so I can't make them appear in Garden Friends (they are hard-coded in each individual post as being 'www.roofgardener.org.uk/gardening/....') Unless the kind forum hosting company could do some sort of gigantic 'search and replace' across the database to change all reference to 'www.roofgardener.org.uk/...' to 'www.roofgardener.org/...' ? I'll get it sorted out eventually |
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Post by SueA on Jul 3, 2021 8:12:00 GMT
That's a shame roofgardener, I'd just been wondering if you were O.K. as you hadn't posted for a while, pleased to hear you got a new job. No idea if anyone can retrieve your photos on here but I doubt it, lots of other photos have disappeared in the past when the hosts people have used to post them from have either gone bust or started charging for storage, I just use the 'add image to post' button & download straight from my computer to here. |
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Post by grindle on Jul 4, 2021 3:56:25 GMT
Sorry to hear you lost your job but good news that you now have another one. Shame about the photos, I do the same as SueA to load pictures here |
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Post by Eli on Jul 8, 2021 2:33:27 GMT
Congratulations on your new job roofgardener.
I do the same as SueA and grindle for adding photos to the forum now. I used to use a thing called Tinypic (or something) but I think it changed and I wasn't able to use it any more. All the photos I'd put on here using it disappeared but I had them stored on my computer so I didn't lose them.
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Post by roofgardener on Sept 4, 2021 12:04:23 GMT
Yaaaaaay - I've regained controls of 'roofgardener.org.uk', though all the old photo's have gone. However, I made a back up of MOST of them, and they are being restored back into the posts as I speak. I lost all of 2021, and most of 2020, but most of the earlier ones are slowly coming back |
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