How Does Your Garden Grow?
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SurSteven, love your windowboxes! Lovely colour combos! We've still got some tomatoes growing & more pumpkins & gourds are starting to pop out. I'm looking forward to getting bulbs to plant for next Spring.
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I know keep mine very tidy all year How do you keep yours ? Do you keep it tidy all year or just in the summer
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We have a vegetable garden this year... part of our family-wide campaign to get healthier and eventually progress to veggie status.
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nowords:
I know keep mine very tidy all year How do you keep yours ? Do you keep it tidy all year or just in the summer
Ours is covered with snow all winter but it does still have the old tomato plants standing up in their cages. Now we should be getting out there & rippin them out! Can't plant till late May around here.
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my mum has camellia bushes...these varieties of flowers in different colors look even more beautiful than roses, to me, though roses are a very close second. martin's apple, fig and plum dishes he makes sound delicious, though i cringed at the thought of him and his family consuming jalepino peppers from his jalepino plants...those things are so hot i wonder what he makes with them. : the druid fairy fruitella blesses all english gardens (fey, twee thought)...
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The daffodils and tulips and hyacinths are coming up... Just bought some seeds and peat pellets to grow them in. Trying to save some money this year with the seeds... Going to try the miniature sunflowers this year, but I hope they don't get eaten before they even grow this year!!! The gopher and the cats ate my lettuce and veggies last year... I'm thinking of trying the hanging tomato planters this year...has anyone tried them? Can't wait to get some nice pansies and violas.... Going to get a few azaleas too and irises. So many things to add to this new garden. Hope the lilies and the snapdragons come back.
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It was sad last yr. we had "late summer blight" and a lot of things were killed off, hope it doesn't return! I have some very lovely Holly hocks and even some roses.---
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Bush all sorted now
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Raked out all the flower beds this afternoon with lots of help from our kid. Tulips, daffodils, lilies & hyacitnhs are making their way up along with primroses. Lilies of the Valley are peeking up too. Cant wait for summer & roses to bloom.
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GYPSYGIRL:
Raked out all the flower beds this afternoon with lots of help from our kid. Tulips, daffodils, lilies & hyacitnhs are making their way up along with primroses. Lilies of the Valley are peeking up too. Cant wait for summer & roses to bloom.
i bet your garden smells really sweet
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Well, last Sunday I was roused from my winter hibernation by the sound of garden machinery... Yes it was Easter Sunday and, as befits UK tradition, time to mow the grass for the first time - even though as Easter is a moveable feast it hops around the horticultural calendar like the proverbial Mad March Hare. So I reluctantly pulled back my curtains and, lo and behold, sadly my garden is still there. I also note that clearly I haven't won that competition for the services of a gardener for a year, so I have to get out and do something about the vision that greets my eye. My grass can stand a few more weeks before it needs cutting, there are more pressing matters. My garden boundary has shrubs bordering the road and recent growth - well the last couple of years really - has seen the shrubs grow to overhang the road threatening to scratch vehicles that pass by. A couple of hours later the shrubs are suitable restrained again, but the roadway is filled with what seems to be three times the volume of clippings that I just trimmed. This is definitely not going to fit into the brown garden watse bin my council helpfully provide so it's a car trip - well, two - to our local tip with my car crammed to the roof with twigs and leaves. Luckily my car is well scratched and world weary so any new marks are unobservable after dragging branches in and out of the car. Now I need to win a car valet....... Martin
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Martin, you can take yard waste to a place to dispose of it? Here, in my area of the US, they only have "branch" pick up 4-6 times in the summer. It happens to be this week & we had put out at the curb, 10 tied piles of branches. They come by & grind them up right on the spot. Landscapers are the only ones that can actually go to a dump or a landfill with waste...and it's for a charge of course. If I want to dispose of other yard waste, I need to buy a ticket & place it on a paper bag (that I buy) & put it out once a month & my garnage hauler will take it away for an additional charge. money, money, money....
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oobu24:
Martin, you can take yard waste to a place to dispose of it?
Yes in the UK most councils accept green waste - not only that some even then compost it and hand the compost back to council tax payers for free or a nominal charge. Everything costs of course, but here the cost is wrapped up in our general service tax levied on properties known as Council Tax. The service is aimed at householders - i.e. tradesmen that generate such as a matter of business cannot use the service and licence plates and vehicles are monitored for abuse of service. We also get a green waste bin free which is collected fortnightly into which we can place grass clippings, plant & shrub cuttings, leaves in autumn, even vegetable waste (uncooked) which is taken away for composting. A visit to one of our local recyling points with any waste these days is a sight to behold today with recycle men watching - not helping - visitors struggle with their waste, policing the numerous recycle points making sure waste is seperated into types. cardboard, timber, green, plastic, brick and rubble, household machines - not TV's or refridgerators - they have seperate points, bottles into green and white glass, plastic bottles, clothing, batteries to name but a few. The council do have a bulky waste collection service but there is an additional charge for calling them in to pick up. While out gardening, we actually had a traditional rag and bone man tour the neighbourhood looking from scrap to collect - even blowing a real trumpet from his van window to raise awareness of his presence. They take away for free things like washing machines, bicycles etc Martin
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Oh dear, don't know where to start with mine? Is that programme Ground Force still on as I'm in desperate need.. First of all mowing a 135 ft garden isn't fun! Must start though.
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This time last year I still had heaps of snow. This year we didn't get much, and I'm delighted to be out pruning fruit shrubs. Crocuses are blooming, daffodils are coming up nicely. In in the country, so I can go really natural, compost everything, get mulch from the forest. I often bury meat/bone scraps out in the back woods, so what with plastic, cardboard recycling and burning in the fireplace, we don't put much in the landfill. It's awful to put organic matter in plastic bags and bury it in a big smelly dump! It's so much better if it can go where the normal microorganisms in the soil can eat it up, it doesn't smell that way except the normal smell of a forest if it's buried. When you compost the vegetable scraps it doesn't smell if you have it in small pieces and mix garden dirt with it. If you go with the way things happen in the forest you're usually ok. Many creatures die and rot out there, leaves fall all over, yet when we walk in it it looks and smells beautiful and fresh!
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Martin, what about starting a mulch pile & re-using everything in your garden? My hubby mowed our lawn today & the mower cuts it fine & he lets it mulch right back into the lawn. Primroses are growing tall. I added pink lilies of the valley & some lovely rancunculus. Soon I'll be planting mini begonias in the flower boxes again.
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GYPSYGIRL:
Martin, what about starting a mulch pile & re-using everything in your garden? My hubby mowed our lawn today & the mower cuts it fine & he lets it mulch right back into the lawn.
Thanks for the tip but I do regularly - clippings, grass, vegetable waste - uncooked and our composting advice also says cardboard and egg boxes - I do egg boxes, the sort made of papier-mache. The waste trip was due to the sheer volume of woody waste that wouldn't compost easily. As I do compost, the green refuse bin doesn't always go out as it seldom has much in it once the spring clear-out is over. Martin
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We also have a huge pile of tree branches that have fallen down. We use this for kindling in our fireplace & also in our outdoor fireplace. Today I bought on sale for half off a big strawberry on a stake that looks like a ladybird. I enjoy adding small decorative items to our flower beds.
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Speaking of strawberries, I was just looking at a bargain for bulk batch of plants and wondering if I could realistically plant them all. In any case, I've got work to do!
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Wendy2066:
This time last year I still had heaps of snow. This year we didn't get much,
Hey...one of my predictions came true! I predicted that it would snow in Canada, some parts anyway. Is it gobal warming or what?!