The gardening thread

[Fez909]

Small is beautiful too. Would you like some sunflowers?

yes please!

 

[Treacle Toes]

Okay.

 

[tufty79]

*joins project fill Fez909 's garden*
spare strawberry plant here if you want?

 

[Fez909]

*joins project fill Fez909 's garden*
spare strawberry plant here if you want?

Very kind of you, but I live practically ON the road. Will the strawbs be ok still? Or full of petrol?

 

[Treacle Toes]

Would like some sunflowers too tufty79 ? It can easily be arranged.

 

[tufty79]

Very kind of you, but I live practically ON the road. Will the strawbs be ok still? Or full of petrol?

I *think* they should be ok, but my opinion is 100% scientifically uninformed

Would like some sunflowers too tufty79 ? It can easily be arranged.

that'd be ace, thanks

 

[Fez909]

I *think* they should be ok, but my opinion is 100% scientifically uninformed



that'd be ace, thanks

100% tufty opinion is good enough for me. Death by strawberry sounds like a fantastic way to go anyway

 

[Treacle Toes]

that'd be ace, thanks

Excellent! I will sort it!

 

[moonsi til]

I read this thread before bed last night and dreamed of lovely gardens. My garden is quite small really. It's kinda sectioned into a paved area where I have a pagoda type structure with a perspex roof with a big table to sit at. Then a grassy area that is really not very grassy and a small summer house at the bottom that is used more as a shed. It's very much a work in progress. I will try and post up pictures tomorrow when I;m off.

 

[Treacle Toes]

This thread inspires; nice dreams and other things!

 

[gentlegreen]

Very kind of you, but I live practically ON the road. Will the strawbs be ok still? Or full of petrol?

In the old days there might have been some lead, but these days you just get the free fertiliser from the NOX in the exhaust - oh and perhaps a bit of platinum from the catalyst ?

 

[DownwardDog]

In the old days there might have been some lead, but these days you just get the free fertiliser from the NOX in the exhaust - oh and perhaps a bit of platinum from the catalyst ?

There is only 2-5g of Pt in a catalytic convertor and it (usually) stays in there. Modern 3 way cats convert NOx to O2 and N2 but there will be plenty of particulate shit from diesel engines on the strawberries.

 

[tufty79]

This thread inspires; nice dreams and other things!

indeed it does! i've ordered a very blue Ceanothus thanks to it being posted about on here and gentlegreen inspired me to pick up some night scented phlox seeds earlier (couldn't find any stock, but it's close enough)

now I just need to get some of all your motivation to rub off on me

 

[Treacle Toes]

indeed it does! i've ordered a very blue Ceanothus thanks to it being posted about on here

OOOOOOOOOOOh WANT

and gentlegreen inspired me to pick up some night scented phlox seeds earlier (couldn't find any stock, but it's close enough)

YAY

now I just need to get some of all your motivation to rub off on me

It will happen...you are here on the thread and have done stuff already

 

[gentlegreen]

That works so well - even before the plants have got going - and an active transition between parts of the garden.
The heavy wooden frame on the pillar on the left looks strangely familiar..

 

[Treacle Toes]

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The heavy wooden frame on the pillar on the left looks strangely familiar..

I found it in a pile of rubbish outside of where i work...My colleagues laughed at me because they were then not used to my Junk-Fairyism... BUT HA! who is laughing now?

 

[gentlegreen]

and gentlegreen inspired me to pick up some night scented phlox seeds earlier (couldn't find any stock, but it's close enough)

Once you get hooked on smelly plants, there's no turning back.

I was thinking last night that I'm probably lucky with the way my garden and living room window are located in relation to the prevailing wind - just a few flowers are enough - I may have gone somewhat overboard this year - I hope it's not too overpowering.

 

[Fez909]

Love the pic

 

[tufty79]

I hope the nose isn't to scale

 

[Treacle Toes]

I am very impressed with that pic too gentlegreen

I often fantasise about planning/working in that way but the truth is I can't/don't work/create in that way in the garden or with crafty things...I sit and look/feel/learn by doing kind of thing.

 

[gentlegreen]

You seem to be managing very well indeed without diagrams.

In truth I'm mostly moving pots around
I'm not at all artistic, but it feels a bit like water colours at the moment.
And it's proved important to actually spend all day in the garden - taking plenty of breaks chilling on my bench, listening to music to think about what needs doing.

You need to bear in mind that in a few weeks' time, it will be exactly 30 years since I moved in and it's a very small space - dominated by the greenhouse -

... and I've done a lot of these things before - but not all at the same time. ...





I hope it won't take that long to deal with my retirement home - the minimum I'm looking for is 1,000 square metres of garden - which is 4 allotments or about 15 times what I have now - and I'm hoping for at least twice that - half an acre.
And since I'll be 60 years old, I will need to get it established quickly - not least because I'll be down at the beach rather a lot.

 

[clicker]

Love this time of year. Colour popping up everywhere.

 

[gentlegreen]

roses ....

A rugosa hedge smelt very nice on the way past this evening ..
I need to find a fragrant rose that works well in a 15 litre pot - white,

....or even pink come to that ...



No way on earth would I have sown a pink wallflower, but these straggly, sickly-looking things are fully earning their keep at the moment,
Wallflowers were always ochre for me - and I still want to have plenty of those, but I want some funky colours too.
Only trouble is where to fit in wallflower plants for next year when the garden is still full of summer and autumn plants...

I think artificial lighting may be part of the answer to get them to size in less time - or I'll try some skullduggery in the veggie patch ...

 

[gentlegreen]

Runner beans, squashes and courgettes, nasturtiums, ricinus communis, bronze fennel all sown - I have 8 sowing slots free out of the 90 pot cupboard capacity...

You get so many seeds in some of the packets - I hope at least some of them will germinate next year.
In retirement out in the sticks I'm likely to get very interested in saving my own seed - but then I'll also have the space to grow a seed crop.

Meanwhile I was checking a pot that I'd shoved out in the greenhouse and it seems I have new verbena bonariensis seedlings, but they're insanely tiny and my three old plants look like they'll do a decent job shortly ... and the bronze fennel will fill in the screening gaps ...

Stuff is starting to grow like mad now - An oak tree on the way home I thought was dead a few days ago is suddenly green and I have bamboo shoots two inches in diameter growing six inches a day !

 

[Treacle Toes]

You are amazing gentlegreen , do you know that?

 

[Mumbles274]

I'm going to have to stop reading this thread

Am looking at those little spots in my garden where I could fit a plant in and want to buy buy buy!!

I want a wisteria that I can train up the back of my house.. it would have a good distance to grow before it got there even if I got a large one.. but would love to have it draped over the back of the house

I want to get the carnivorous bog plants (hardy ones are available for out doors) to go in my pond which was always part of my original plans.. big pitchers in the margins of the nature part, maybe some others too

I want more grasses, I have a few bare areas where some plants have died on me and need filling

I love the big ferny thing in gentlegreen 's garden.. want want want

I have a palm that needs a much bigger pot..

I want to get some pots to scatter around the decking and gravel area.. am thinking herbs, maybe some strawbs.. something edible.. If i got my arse in gear i have a covered bit at the end of the garden currently full of junk that I have grown toms, carrots and others in.. too late for carrots I think but could get some tom plants or maybe some marrows and train them

like I said... dam this thread

 

[Treacle Toes]

like I said... damn this thread

Nope, you will simply keep coming back for more, doing what you do, taking inspiration and using the opportunity to be well in any which way we all do.

 

[Mumbles274]

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That fern on the right.. what is it gentlegreen ?

 

[Manter]

I'm going to have to stop reading this thread

Am looking at those little spots in my garden where I could fit a plant in and want to buy buy buy!!

I want a wisteria that I can train up the back of my house.. it would have a good distance to grow before it got there even if I got a large one.. but would love to have it draped over the back of the house

I want to get the carnivorous bog plants (hardy ones are available for out doors) to go in my pond which was always part of my original plans.. big pitchers in the margins of the nature part, maybe some others too

I want more grasses, I have a few bare areas where some plants have died on me and need filling

I love the big ferny thing in gentlegreen 's garden.. want want want

I have a palm that needs a much bigger pot..

I want to get some pots to scatter around the decking and gravel area.. am thinking herbs, maybe some strawbs.. something edible.. If i got my arse in gear i have a covered bit at the end of the garden currently full of junk that I have grown toms, carrots and others in.. too late for carrots I think but could get some tom plants or maybe some marrows and train them

like I said... dam this thread

If you can hang on till the end of this season I will try and later my wisterias (I've never done it before, so it may not work.....)

 

[Mumbles274]

If you can hang on till the end of this season I will try and later my wisterias (I've never done it before, so it may not work.....)

thanks but I can feel an imminent visit to local nursery coming on.. i am too impulsive to wait!