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dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Sun May 24, 26 11:53 am Post subject:
i am hoping to get out to inspect, water if required and feed generously i will report later

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 17132

Posted: Sun May 24, 26 8:40 pm Post subject:
If it is as hot with you as it is here, I would leave it until evening. I didn't water today as I think they will all be all right for now. Must do it again some time tomorrow.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Mon May 25, 26 12:47 pm Post subject:

Had to go down and water the garden this morning before it got too hot, although I was pretty warm by the time I had finished. Fortunately out rain water tanks should be full, so enough to keep things going for a bit. The cabbages looked a little wilty, but that might just be the heat. Other things looked all right.

Managed to buy a set of lawn shears the other day, so cut my way down the garden as things are growing to fast. Had to cut back some hazel too, as it was disputing my right to go down the path.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 9652
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Tue May 26, 26 7:38 am Post subject:

Trying to get the garden into some sort of order as it has been neglected for a month!
Weeded the leeks.. Must use/freeze before they run to seed.
Started weeding the fruit Bush beds from the shady side. Can you make liquid plant feed with mare's tail (Equisetum)? The sawfly caterpillars are busy munching

Weeded all the slab paths... That makes it look a lot better even if it doesn't do much

Seeds sown in the greenhouse, well shaded, as no room to sow direct... There will be room later.
Some radish were sown in a bed with carrots so you can see where the rows are.. Very slow and patchy germination and no carrots

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Tue May 26, 26 5:15 pm Post subject:
I am having trouble with carrots as usual Gz. They just don't seem to do anything for me. I have leeks and the odd chard. Hoping to manage to weed that bed and resow when it cools down a bit, which hopefully will be later this week. Watering to do again tonight if things need it, but as late as possible to avoid the heat.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45769
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu May 28, 26 3:18 pm Post subject:
Walnuts also a bit crispy so frost got them too. Why do I bother?

Florence

Joined: 15 Mar 2025
Posts: 549

Posted: Thu May 28, 26 7:49 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Walnuts also a bit crispy so frost got them too. Why do I bother?

Err stubborn like a lot of us gardeners?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44804
Location: yes

Posted: Fri May 29, 26 5:14 pm Post subject:

albertine has started to flower, the herbs look good, the bramble is magnificently uncut last year, the mouse castle flora is diverse through the year and provides more herbs and medicine as well as giving the mice good cover from the small owls (quite a few in suburban york)

probably about time for some pot grown herbs/toms and maybe some more beans, the over winter aquadeluce got moused in infancy last autumn

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sat May 30, 26 4:24 pm Post subject:

Difficult to grow tender fruit/nut trees where you are Tahir. Here it isn't usually so bad and they can even grow some apricots on the Isle of Wight, while figs are quite common. We have a walnut tree in the wood; someone got muddled between it and ash I think. Haven't managed to look at it lately, but there are some walnuts at Singleton, not far from Chichester. Think they are black walnut, so good for dye, not such good eating.

Dpack, sounds good. Go gently with the big pots, or preferably get someone else to fill and move them.

Haven't had a chance to look at the garden this week, but it is going rather rampant.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sun May 31, 26 3:08 pm Post subject:

Managed to get down the garden today. Used the new long handled shears to trim round the raised beds, so fewer hiding places for slugs and snails hopefully. Everything seems to be growing well, including weeds. I weeded the onion bed and got rather a lot out, but found I had more chard than I thought and 3 carrots. I watered after weeding as some of the roots got a bit displaced. The onions are starting to bulb up, which is encouraging, the cabbages are growing well and the beans are all going up the bean sticks. Tomatoes in the greenhouse are growing too, and the vine has plenty of flowers. I keep pinching out the odd shoots otherwise it disputes my right to be in the greenhouse.

Noticed yesterday that there were a couple of flat spots in the rather too long grass on the lawn. I found out what they are today when I disturbed one of the local cats having a snooze there.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Sun May 31, 26 5:33 pm Post subject:

"Dpack, sounds good. Go gently with the big pots, or preferably get someone else to fill and move them."

i am not going to move any pots or planters, but i do need someone to mulch them with
120 lt of turning barrel "heap" of home made compost (it is organic, high feed and ready to go so the next batch can be made over summer and winter ready for spring
ps i was a bit dubious of the barrel type composting, it works nicely but even 2 people and a small yard really need two units to rotate adding/ fermenting and maturing/use

pps i still have 50 lt of very mature farmyard manure to help start the next ferment, other additives include dried chook frass, BFB, urine, after a couple of weeks of that adding all the usual domestic and garden compost things along with a bit of worm and micro flora rich soil

the rotate the barrel in its cradle does seem effective (compared to how often a heap gets turned(it should be about once a month but rarely is)

compared to heaps or mixture it is polite in a tight urban setting, it even has a thing to collect and then spray by hose mixture that may drip from the barrel

i have a barrel like the early examples, different types might suit other folk better

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hoselock+compost+barrel&t=newext&atb=v479-1&ia=shopping&iax=shopping

Florence

Joined: 15 Mar 2025
Posts: 549

Posted: Sun May 31, 26 5:38 pm Post subject:
Hope you weeded out any cats MR. They really aren't the most helpful in a garden where produce is being cultivated. I'm eating fruit and veg like a good one. Am back to a regular veg box delivery. Down to one garden to care for at the moment. Just mine for the weekend. Rather nice and restful.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 17132

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 26 6:07 pm Post subject:

Dpack, those composters are good for a small area and reasonably small amounts of compost.

Florence, our garden is a lovely place for cats. When I see a new one I tell it the rules of the garden, and generally they comply. No way to keep them out I am afraid, as the garden is quite long and thin, so can't put deterrent down everywhere.

Rain has started and we are forecast it for the next couple of days on and off, so no watering needed apart from greenhouse.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 9652
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 26 8:59 am Post subject:
Tatties and garlic are growing well with all the rain. Broad beans appear to be setting well Red onions are trying to flower squash are coming along ok but everything small seemsto have paused. second sowing of peas are also a no show All the bush fruit have set and strawbs are flowering

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 17132

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 26 5:05 pm Post subject:

When I went to look yesterday, virtually all the cabbages seem to have survived the slimy hordes, so have the beans and peas. I lifted the net over the onions a couple of weeks ago to weed, and they have fallen over. A few were coming up to flower, so I pinched the buds out. Potatoes seem to be doing well, fruit set on the grape and tomatoes growing, but only 1 flower so far.

Managed to cut my way through to the back of the blackberries. It was mainly grass and herbaceous stuff, but there is some clematis and bryony mixed in as well, so got rid of as much of that as possible too.

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