Good shout. Think most supermarkets are selling compost too? My Morrisons is anyway.
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Good shout. Think most supermarkets are selling compost too? My Morrisons is anyway.
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As you wish, apologies if these come out maaahooosive, resizing pictures isn't a skill I ever mastered:-
The stick on the left is the one that was away from the previous root ball.
That came out with a hint of root,
The other stick with most of the foliage, such as it is, was just that a stick!
Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
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A rather sneering response. Enjoying a few simple pleasures is a massively underrated aspect of the “Game of Life”. You should find better targets than suburban gardeners for your holy rifle...
- Jul 10, 2003
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Great minds. I ordered plants for my hanging baskets from them on Saturday but also included 6 peonies. If it was two of each of this collection
I'll let you know
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I'll let you know
Yep I ordered the same ones, seemed a bargain. I know my wife is a fan.
Jack Straw
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It doesn't look too bad at all.
My advice would be to dig out a saucer shaped shallow bowl around the base, about 0.75 m in diameter, and fill it with water on a daily basis for a week. This sounds nuts, but after the first few days of doing this, piss in a bucket (any container would do!), and tip that on. Basically, piss is liquid fertilizer. Water daily for another week and add more piss, then watch!
I would love to see how it progresses, so more photos appreciated as time goes by.
Coldeanseagull
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A tip with peonies, don't plant them too deep. Don't be too disappointed with the lack of flowers for the first couple of years, it takes them that long to establish. Choose your site carefully as they don't like being moved. One last observation. It will blow a hooley when they're in flower, the big, showy flowers will be trashed by the wind and rain....happens to me every year!
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I'm sure Jnr will take great delight in pissing near it.
He won't even care if you're winding us up.
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
Yeah, but only of the end result, not the compost making!!
I have a bucket in my greenhouse for such additions to my composting regime
- Jul 10, 2003
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I'm putting them into a bed that has some very well established peonies filling some gaps, and I know what you mean about wind and rain although luckily, mine are very sheltered. But because the other ones have been there forever, I wasn't aware how long it may take them to get established
Note to [MENTION=1320]Notters[/MENTION] - probably not best in pots then.
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Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
No wind-up. Cheapest fertilizer you can get.
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/8-reasons-why-you-should-pee-your-garden.html
A real question. When I came back last September it seemed the weeds in the paving slabs along the length of the Old Shoreham Road were about a metre high! It looked awful. Was this a planned policy?
Unsure on Paoenies in pots, they DETEST root disturbance.
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
If it was the Hove stretch rather than the Adur bit, I know that Brighton & Hove Council stopped using Glyphosate last year, hence the weeds wouldn't have been sprayed. It will be interesting to see how weeds in pavements will be dealt with in the future. All alternative methods tried so far have either been too expensive or too time consuming. It could be back to good old hoe!
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God from the moment I mentioned your advise, it was all I could do to stop Jnr walking out there with newspaper under his arm!!!
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
Tell him pee, not poo. Poo from animals that eat grass only!
Thank you. Have to be honest, I am in the process of stocking up on ‘Roundup’ and systemic insecticides before they are banned. I know their downsides, but they are effective, and my small use in a private garden ain’t gonna make a lot of odds after most other use has been stopped.
Madafwo
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- Nov 11, 2013
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I'd alsonlike any advice going about this as well. Dogs and neglect have ravished my back garden but when I've had parks to take the boy to I've not been too bothered, but obviously now I've got the time to devote to giving him a decent play area and somewhere for us to have a BBQ every now and again.
Worried Man Blues
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Apologies, you carry on nukeing your garden