[Help] Gardeners Question Time.

[LamieRobertson]

Both upstairs and downstairs have battery lawnmowers and they let me plug in a borrowed powered strimmer. I've used 2 different mowers and 8 battery charges to do 3/4 of it down to 3" height filling up 4 black bags of trimmings.

I will go battery powered eventually but it needs the whole summer of work to get it half decent.

Still needs a bloody good raking too but it was bloody hot today and wanted to drink ice cold cider more than work!

Lol ye it was a tad warm cutting grass at a block of flats where part of it was at a 45 degree angle and had a planting session on another block at Hove seafront where I could watch everyone enjoying themselves

 

[Stat Brother]

Quick question.

Which online nursery did I use, a couple of years ago?


I'll be jiggered if I can remember/find it.

 

[Stat Brother]

Quick question.

Which online nursery did I use, a couple of years ago?


I'll be jiggered if I can remember/find it.

Finally found them this morning.

JParker.

 

[Jack Straw]

Finally found them this morning.

JParker.

That's them! I use them for bulbs. Quite good.
You're not ready for planting anything yet, Shirley?

 

[Stat Brother]

That's them! I use them for bulbs. Quite good.
You're not ready for planting anything yet, Shirley?

Yes and no.

Well technically NO.

But I have a cunning plan.

Due to the quantity of digging I have to do my mojo is on its knees.
The last I bought from them I basically got a load of glorified twigs.

12 months later they were nice.plants.

So my theory (which you will be appalled by) is:-

Buy a shit tonne of twigs and things that look like onions.
Dump them in now.
Use that to spur me onto a summer of digging.
End the summer with a functioning garden.
Start next spring with some nice growth.


So.far I've only got £93 worth in my basket and it's a shit tonne of twigs and wannabe onions.

 

[Jack Straw]

Yes and no.

Well technically NO.

But I have a cunning plan.

Due to the quantity of digging I have to do my mojo is on its knees.
The last I bought from them I basically got a load of glorified twigs.

12 months later they were nice.plants.

So my theory (which you will be appalled by) is:-

Buy a shit tonne of twigs and things that look like onions.
Dump them in now.
Use that to spur me onto a summer of digging.
End the summer with a functioning garden.
Start next spring with some nice growth.


So.far I've only got £93 worth in my basket and it's a shit tonne of twigs and wannabe onions.

If they have no leaves this time of year, they are twigs!
You've self-motivated in an unusual way, but if it works...
I hope you haven't made yourself more work in the long run.
Looking forwards to any photos.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Yes and no.

Well technically NO.

But I have a cunning plan.

Due to the quantity of digging I have to do my mojo is on its knees.
The last I bought from them I basically got a load of glorified twigs.

12 months later they were nice.plants.

So my theory (which you will be appalled by) is:-

Buy a shit tonne of twigs and things that look like onions.
Dump them in now.
Use that to spur me onto a summer of digging.
End the summer with a functioning garden.
Start next spring with some nice growth.


So.far I've only got £93 worth in my basket and it's a shit tonne of twigs and wannabe onions.

Maybe put them into some pots and use the developing foliage as an ongoing chivvy up for when they are too big for the pots ?

 

[Stat Brother]

I haven't even bought them yet.

I dug over 30ft of border a couple of weeks ago.
I'll (hopefully) carry on digging across the garden where the lawn will be.
At some point, in 21 days time, a £100 worth of twigs and onions will be delivered.
I'll bosh that lot into the first border.
Then I'll be ready to do much the same to the opposite border.


(narrators voice - he won't be ready cos he'd have done f**k all)

 

[Stat Brother]

Pick the bones out of this lot.

Feel free to tell me they are all going to die in January, I don't care!!

Despite not really having a clue about 3/4ers of them, I reckon I've done a brilliant job and in 12 months time La Jardin du Stat will look adequate.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Only thing I'll say about the choices you've made, is observe which ones prefer full sun and which prefer a little bit of shade. Figure out in chateau stat where is the sunniest or shadiest places and plant accordingly

 

[Jack Straw]

All the plants you've ordered Stat, will be very, very small, but they will take off in time.
What I would do would be to prepare an area of your garden about 2m x 2m, (dig over to a spade blade depth, and remove all weeds), and plant all the plants in it. Keep them watered and weeded until their permanent place has been readied.
Come the autumn or spring, dig them up carefully and transplant them. It is worth doing a bit of research to discover their ultimate height and width, and to find out whether they're herbaceous perennials, bulbs, shrubs or trees. (I'm not going to type all this in, but to help a bit, the Acer is a decidous tree which will grow to about 20 feet, and the Nerine is an autumn-flowering bulb about 1 foot tall!).
You can then work out which ones go towards the back of your scheme, and which ones at the front.

 

[Stat Brother]

All the plants you've ordered Stat, will be very, very small, but they will take off in time.
What I would do would be to prepare an area of your garden about 2m x 2m, (dig over to a spade blade depth, and remove all weeds), and plant all the plants in it. Keep them watered and weeded until their permanent place has been readied.
Come the autumn or spring, dig them up carefully and transplant them. It is worth doing a bit of research to discover their ultimate height and width, and to find out whether they're herbaceous perennials, bulbs, shrubs or trees. (I'm not going to type all this in, but to help a bit, the Acer is a decidous tree which will grow to about 20 feet, and the Nerine is an autumn-flowering bulb about 1 foot tall!).
You can then work out which ones go towards the back of your scheme, and which ones at the front.

Alternatively I might just bung all the twigs in and see what happens!

 

[Jack Straw]

Alternatively I might just bung all the twigs in and see what happens!

That's the alternative!

 

[LamieRobertson]

Alternatively I might just bung all the twigs in and see what happens!

Alternatively chuck this lot in…only £25

https://www.rootsplants.co.uk/colle...ildflower-Meadow-plugs?variant=42003705364640

 

[Stat Brother]

Alternatively chuck this lot in…only £25

https://www.rootsplants.co.uk/colle...ildflower-Meadow-plugs?variant=42003705364640

That will be perfect for the 'round the corner' 20ft of garden at Stat Towers.

 

[zefarelly]

This rose was in the garden when we moved in 19 years ago . . . survived the garage extension build in 2003 and just grows, beautifully.

 

[LamieRobertson]

This rose was in the garden when we moved in 19 years ago . . . survived the garage extension build in 2003 and just grows, beautifully. View attachment 148185

I’ve one against part of my garden fence (bloom below)…with two rambler/climber that are intertwined with two clematis and a wisteria

 

[Jack Straw]

A nice leaf colour combination in my friend's garden. Purple Acer palmatum, a rare Yellow Oak, a Cardoon (Artichoke) and a yellow Smoke Bush.

 

[Stat Brother]

Ok folks.

Today I second dug the right side (right side) border.
Then the left side (left side) border, for the first time.

The problem is the lack of bulbs that came up esp where a pooh tonne of (not) wild garlic was.

That area spent Feb & March covered by the taken apart garden storage box.
When that was finally put back together the area was treated with Dicophar.
Now that stuff killed off the (not) wild garlic - no sign of any regrowth in the subsequent 2 months, but you lot lead me to believe the (N) WG would be lying dormant under the soil.

I got a few bulbs but certainly not in the quantity the original amount of growth would suggest.

I assume I haven't 'got away with it' so what's going on?

 

[Jack Straw]

Ok folks.

Today I second dug the right side (right side) border.
Then the left side (left side) border, for the first time.

The problem is the lack of bulbs that came up esp where a pooh tonne of (not) wild garlic was.

That area spent Feb & March covered by the taken apart garden storage box.
When that was finally put back together the area was treated with Dicophar.
Now that stuff killed off the (not) wild garlic - no sign of any regrowth in the subsequent 2 months, but you lot lead me to believe the (N) WG would be lying dormant under the soil.

I got a few bulbs but certainly not in the quantity the original amount of growth would suggest.

I assume I haven't 'got away with it' so what's going on?

Did you spray the actual green leaves, or the bare ground?
Sorry to bring you bad news, but you will have loads of embryonic baby garlic bulbs that you wouldn't have seen. They can lay dormant in the soil for 6 years. You will probably have a lovely new crop next year.
The weedkiller you used is for lawns, which means it will kill the broad-leaved weeds, and leave the grass alone. With garlic being monocotyledonous, (one shoot emerges from the seed and not pairs of leaves), the same as grass, it may be a little more resistant to what you've used.
Garlic will die down on its own accord soon, so you may have to wait until next spring to see how successful you've been. I'm not a big advocate of chemicals nowadays, but I would suggest that you try Glyphosate on any re-growth next year, instead. Desperate times mean desperate measures?
A few photos of what you've told us would be helpful.