[Help] Gardeners Question Time.

[Stat Brother]

Godzillabee turned up this morning.

This bugger was so big he was causing his own downdraft and couldn't land on the poppies as they instantly buckled under his weight.

 

[Jack Straw]

Godzillabee turned up this morning.

This bugger was so big he was causing his own downdraft and couldn't land on the poppies as they instantly buckled under his weight.

Any news on Chris?

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Disaster this year nearly everything bolted/gone to seed. Even the spuds have fruited. Toms taller than Burn hardly any flowers/fruit. It's courgettes, courgettes or eh courgettes, that are marrow like.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Has anyone noticed more butterflies this year?

Just been sitting outside watching them, I've got a cottoneaster hedge that's just flowered and is buzzing with bees but also in the last half hour seen 3 red admirals, a few small whites and a couple of small brown ones that were possibly meadow brown but difficult to tell.

It's still nothing like I remember growing up when my grandparents seedum would be literally covered, but better than I can remember in the last decade where you'd be happy to see one all summer. Would be great if numbers are recovering

 

[portslade seagull]

My beetroot are massive must like the rain and rhubarb has gone crazy

 

[Stat Brother]

Any news on Chris?

Chris is good he's been doing a lot of sharing this season.
I now have at least 5 of his mates at any one time, but then again he is The Humble Bumble.

 

[Jack Straw]

Has anyone noticed more butterflies this year?

Just been sitting outside watching them, I've got a cottoneaster hedge that's just flowered and is buzzing with bees but also in the last half hour seen 3 red admirals, a few small whites and a couple of small brown ones that were possibly meadow brown but difficult to tell.

It's still nothing like I remember growing up when my grandparents seedum would be literally covered, but better than I can remember in the last decade where you'd be happy to see one all summer. Would be great if numbers are recovering

I'm very in to butterflies. I've noticed Small Whites in numbers not seen for years. Castle Hill Nature Reserve behind Woodingdean is currently alive with Marbled Whites and Dark Green Fritillaries amongst lesser numbers of other species. The second brood of Common Blues should emerge any time now.

 

[Weststander]

Has anyone noticed more butterflies this year?

Just been sitting outside watching them, I've got a cottoneaster hedge that's just flowered and is buzzing with bees but also in the last half hour seen 3 red admirals, a few small whites and a couple of small brown ones that were possibly meadow brown but difficult to tell.

It's still nothing like I remember growing up when my grandparents seedum would be literally covered, but better than I can remember in the last decade where you'd be happy to see one all summer. Would be great if numbers are recovering

Definitely, for example pairs of Large Whites 'scuffling'.

Despite this current heatwave, we've had plenty of rain unlike the long droughts, so there's a mass of flowers for them.

Verbena and Achillia very popular in our garden.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

No veg seeds germinated here, probably because I when I planted (even in a cold frame and especially outdoors) it was freezing cold in April and May, it has barely rained here properly for months, and now its suddenly scorching outside.

Several of the fruit trees haven't bothered either, after a bumper crop last year. No plums at all, and the apples are weeks behind and still dropping. The blackbirds stripped the cherry tree bare and have started on the blueberries.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Can I use my hoover on artificial grass?

 

[Jack Straw]

Can I use my hoover on artificial grass?

You need the Artificial Gardeners' Question Time thread!
I'll leave this to the "Plastics" to answer!! (I think I'll leave it there as I don't know).

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Can I use my hoover on artificial grass?

Just asked my mate who has a lovely garden but uses artificial grass, and he hoovers his.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Can I use my hoover on artificial grass?

Just asked my mate who has a lovely garden but uses artificial grass, and he hoovers his.

Artificial grass has shit loads of sand on it. This does two things, firstly helps to hold it down tight to the ground, and secondly it supports the ‘blades’ of grass to remain vertical rather than being squashed flat when walked on. You actually should add to the sand occasionally.

Maybe try a broom?

 

[Stat Brother]

Hopefully I've just had a small result.

Just had to pop to Wickes for more gloss paint.
Outside they had a trolley load of nearly dead plants.
I didn't think anything of it as they clearly weren't worth whatever they were asking, but curiousity got the better of me and I'm pleased it did.

Disappointing poppy bed #1 has been pulled up and is now home to -

2 X Columbine Aquilegia (shin height)
3 X Dianthus (small pot)
&
3 X Calibrachoa (small pot)

ALL for the princely sum of 80p.

They're all green enough just a bit crunchy.

 

[Jack Straw]

Hopefully I've just had a small result.

Just had to pop to Wickes for more gloss paint.
Outside they had a trolley load of nearly dead plants.
I didn't think anything of it as they clearly weren't worth whatever they were asking, but curiousity got the better of me and I'm pleased it did.

Disappointing poppy bed #1 has been pulled up and is now home to -

2 X Columbine Aquilegia (shin height)
3 X Dianthus (small pot)
&
3 X Calibrachoa (small pot)

ALL for the princely sum of 80p.

They're all green enough just a bit crunchy.

 

[Stat Brother]

Yeah I know, trying to do it now but as usual my cameras pics are too big for NSC.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Yeah I know, trying to do it now but as usual my cameras pics are too big for NSC.

Boasting about size again

 

[LamieRobertson]

Hopefully I've just had a small result.

Just had to pop to Wickes for more gloss paint.
Outside they had a trolley load of nearly dead plants.
I didn't think anything of it as they clearly weren't worth whatever they were asking, but curiousity got the better of me and I'm pleased it did.

Disappointing poppy bed #1 has been pulled up and is now home to -

2 X Columbine Aquilegia (shin height)
3 X Dianthus (small pot)
&
3 X Calibrachoa (small pot)

ALL for the princely sum of 80p.

They're all green enough just a bit crunchy.

Worth is just for the Aquilegia…should seed nicely

 

[Stat Brother]

Hopefully I've just had a small result.

Just had to pop to Wickes for more gloss paint.
Outside they had a trolley load of nearly dead plants.
I didn't think anything of it as they clearly weren't worth whatever they were asking, but curiousity got the better of me and I'm pleased it did.

Disappointing poppy bed #1 has been pulled up and is now home to -

2 X Columbine Aquilegia (shin height)
3 X Dianthus (small pot)
&
3 X Calibrachoa (small pot)

ALL for the princely sum of 80p.

They're all green enough just a bit crunchy.

Surrounding the rose planted in the spring, then subsequently swamped by the poppies.

 

[Weststander]

Elated with this project of mine, 18 months ago it was largely dandelions and couch grass sitting on chalky subsoil.



Evolving all the time. The Heleniums were bought today.