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Posted by Boofer (U3709461) on Monday, 27th April 2009
As there is no GW this week(for which some are thankful) why don't we build our own.
What will you be doing in your garden at the weekend and how will you be doing it.
While th soil is damp I will be trying to get rid of some of the carpet of celandines which are presently smothering my borders.
I've found the best way of winkling them out from between other plants is with a three pronged daisy grubber. This lifts the celandines and their bubbly roots without disturbing the other plants.
Hot or not (I mean the weather!) there is plenty to be getting on with out there so post it on here.
, in reply to message 1.
Posted by mutebuttondelight (U3517782) on Monday, 27th April 2009
I've got some potatoes to earth up, some chard and leaf beet to plant out. A spot of weeding too. Oh and hens to look after (but they don't take long to do).
Not exactly for the weekend but have just planted out my runner bean row with a "trial" of Armstrong, as recommended by Pippa Greenwood in an 08 GW trials article on runner beans and is recommended for taste and non-stringiness .
The rest of the row, 20 plants, are the tried and tested Scarlet Emperor which is own kept previous years seed which I must have done for the last 10 years.
Shallots are cropping for spring onions and planting 6 new bulbs a week for succession together with lettuces with a similar approach but with 1/4 of a row sowing.
Beetroot bed is prepared and will be planting 3X20ft (6 metre) rows on Saturday weather permitting.
Blackcurrant's are flowering/setting well just about ready for the bird netting.
Still does not replace or excuse GW being off for a week when at the busiest time of the season especially where there always seems to be air time for repeats, often in the same week !! either on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú3 or 4. Shows where we stand again in the viewing pecking order . The one consolation is Beechgrove is not taking a week off for snooker just moving channel. Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Scotland well done.
Can I present the 'out and about' in other people's gardens bits? Ths weekend I'm gonig to Alnwick Garden and the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, (and possibly a quick trip to Edinburgh Botanic Gardens if I can squeeze it in, but I'm not holding my breath on that one!!!) I won't have a camera crew with me, but I'll certainly take a look and report back if anyone's interested...
Margi x
can't wait - go girl!
I love Alnwick - garden is superb: Haven't been to Botanics for ages:
I will be pricking out petunia seedlings and potting on sunflowers. I will also be on Robin watch as we have a number of young families in ours and surrounding gardens. They're getting through so many mealworms it's becoming quite expensive!
I'll be planting out some spring cabbage under some netting to thwart the local pigeons, and getting French beans and curcubits started in cells in the greenhouse and keeping up with the hoeing.
Funny how most garden programme professionals airily dismiss a lifetime combatting weeds, by the magic words "first get rid of all perennial weeds before establishing your asparagus/raspberry/strawberry bed"!
Have I missed the perils of weed control at Greenacre or don't they have any?
And I'll be planting out my mangetout babies - hence the mad scuttle round for slug deterrants.
And covering them with an old net curtain!
Sowing more parley and basil, and worrying about my tom seedlings.
Perhaps some different cabbage?
we'll see.
Should i decide to make a mini-pond, which is unlikely, I shall bury a trug, and so how I go on from there!
I've only got an underground bunker, not a proper shed, so I won't be sitting in there - it gives me the creeps.
Nooj (weedsRus)
I will be pruning and reshaping appropriate spring flowering shrubs so that they get plenty of new wood for next years display. Transplanting some of my brassica seedlings to the right spacings while the soil is wet. Splitting my newly purchased fan lobelias so I get more plants for my money, and hardening off my seedlings during the day, back in the plastic greenhouse at night.
And weeding, which is mandatory
As I am disabled I am paying a neighbour to bring my hedges into some semblance of order and pulling up an ugly bush which has been overtaken by bramble. There is plenty of pruning to be done as well.
The garden is new, to me, and I can't wait to get planting but fear it will be the middle of the year before front and back will be in any condition to plant anything.
In the meantime the bluebells bring me great joy.
Does this mean rugby's on again next friday at 8pm, god I'll be watching Pobol y Cwm next.
I have 80 runner bean plants ready to go out this weekend as I want to test a new placement this year whereby my rows will sheltered behind a wall and shed, but will get plenty of sunshine.
Hoeing, hoeing and more hoeing (or I'll have definitely lost the battle against the weeds). Putting in some lawn edging. Trying to find a space, any space, to transplant some of the zillions of last year's digitalis purpurea 'alba' seedlings before they get too big and problematic. If the weather is dry and sunny, applying weedkiller to the 'lawn' (euphemism for the grassed area), as well as 'the usual' cutting it and strimming the edges.
And then sitting back and just enjoying it whilst at the same time nursing a very sore back (the hoeing and spraying really does my back in).
Does this mean rugby's on again next Friday at 8pm, god I'll be watching Pobol y Cwm next.Ìý
I think you will find its snooker this Friday !! different colour balls .
Now if it was the rugby I would agree with the re-scheduling and so should you if you are in the Pobol y Cwm reception zone or do you pick it up on Sky?
Give BG a try I am sure you will be favourably impressed..
Yes to Margi doing the 'out and about' slot. Every garden prog needs one.
To all you veg planters, more detail needed. Can we have the variety names on the screen please and details of spacing etc.
Weeders, are you hoeing, down on your knees with a hand fork or using a flame-thrower?
The novices need you! We must improve on the original GW.
, in reply to message 1.
Posted by novicedippychick (U9694696) on Wednesday, 29th April 2009
Just found this and love this new GW. This weekend I shall be building more raised beds and moving several tonnes of topsoil to put in thoses beds .
I've also got some pricking out to do and realised yesterday I hadn't sown any courgette seeds , so I'll be doing that as well.
Hopefully the weather will be good in the London and so that I can get alot done over this Bank holiday .
NDC
Sorry boofer.
Oregon sugar pod, i think they are called and only a few inches apart.
Pasley of all sorts I grow inside in pots and then plant the whole clump out together to find its own way.
seems to work for me.
Basil, I keep indoors all the time.
I have cabbage Caramba - a sweetheart variety , but not ready to go out yet, and it's the first time i've tried that one.
Toms are black russian and a cherry whose name I have mislaid.
I may try some red cabbage for the first time, and I've got some Algarve flat beans that aren't ready to go out yet either.
Plant out sugar snap peas, I think they're Delikatt. Planting distances? I'll see how I feel at the time. Beginners need to know - sometimes you can just do what feels right.
Sow some carrots.
Prick out gillenia trifoliata seedlings, grown from my own plant's seed, a first for me.
Depending on the weather I may venture into the 'shrubbery' to do some weeding amongst the 'ground cover', most of which is actually weeds, or native plants if you prefer. This would definitely be on hands & knees with a fork. It's quite possible I may admit defeat very quickly and find something more rewarding to do.
Admire my neatly mulched border before the bindweed really gets going.
How long have you got? Every time I go outside, I see another thing that needs doing.
I've got two beds to weed, not huge but they're in the front where they show up and they'll need mulching as I reckon we'll have a dry summer this time ("oak before ash").
Order more mulch (woodchip) as I used it all up on the new hedge around the veg garden.
Plant out Freckles and Cocarde lettuces which are big enough now to withstand slugs
Dig pits for the runner beans and french beans and put up hazel tepees
Buy more canes for the outside tomatoes (Black Krim and Gardeners Delight) and erect frame for them (I'm using bamboo hoops, but need longer canes to steady them up).
Buy more wildlife-safe slug pellets and spray hostas with garlic water to deter the critters (this worked quite well last year).
Get a nice big tank for watering the veg garden (it's a little too far from the house for the hose) don't care what sort or what it looks like.
Hope my seed order arrives, so I can sow some fresh carrot seed, sugar snap peas and french beans. Possibly plant out the courgettes, but may wait another week or so (frosts).
So that's me.
Talleyhoe - sooo glad I'm not the only one who has obviously been peering up at oak & ash trees the last couple of weeks! The oak is deffo out before that flippin ash (hate ash trees - so messy!) Here's to a good summer!
Mommyxxx
, in reply to message 20.
Posted by Scotsgardener (U13901027) on Wednesday, 29th April 2009
Well - can I do the What's Hot and What's Not in the gardening world?
*hides behind an avalanche of thrown slippers!*
Hot - keeping bees in your garden (see the other thread about Who Killed The Honey Bee for more info)
Not - other people's children
AX
Just so you are not the only one who gets a clobbering.
Not hot
children at all, unless cute little babies.
Hot
Peace and quiet, birdsong and the odd lovely cat looking like a statue
I'm loving this new gardners world!
This weekend in Talloulahs garden we will be seeing her on her hands and knees weeding the herbaecious (sp?) borders after she showed us how NOT to lift turf about six weeks ago and left bits of grass behind.
We will also see her pretend to tend her greenhouse while in reality she'll be escaping from making tea for the workers (OH and FIL) who are sorting out her new conservatory (which she will call an orangery whilst on air!).
We may even see her face down on the weeds (ooops lawn!) begging her apprentice (11 year old son) to walk up her spine after afore mentioned border weeding lesson!
BTW mommydoos I have a rowan and while its full of buds its not flowering yet! Does that mean a nice summer?
Talloulah
What's hot? My little border terrier copying me digging when I'm weeding... soooo cute.
What's not? When he uses the seed bed as a shortcut.
Whats hot? ..... hopefully the sun!
Whats not? ..... kids with footballs and bikes in my garden!
, in reply to message 25.
Posted by Scotsgardener (U13901027) on Wednesday, 29th April 2009
ooooh Had a thought! Annoying little kids that chuck in bottles and kick in the odd football are as nothing, compared to CATS doing their business in the garden.
You all know what it's like, you're weeding and you catch a whiff of....something...and before you can say 'catsh*t' you've either got it on your fingers *shriek* or wodged up between the teeth of your fork!
Cats are deffo HOT - but only because if I catch any of the furry blighters shaking their booty against my mini, they'll be tossed on the bbq
I'm joking. I think.
AX
With two mentions of black tomatoes methinks they must be hot.
As to the summer - on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú 1 lunchtime news they have just announced that we are in for a 'barbecue summer'.
Is it too late for me to sow tomatoes? After a severe attack of blight last time I haven't bothered. Now it looks like I'm going to miss out.
What's Not: Teenage 'children' climbing over the garden wall for whatever feeble reason they come up with.
What's Hot: Anti-climb paint and homemade 'tool rack' just inside wall edge(ML eagerly awaits finding a chav tarred on to back wall)
Over to Cleve West with our garden shed and allotment security tips and gadgets.
MLx
What's definitely NOT : neighbours who opt for the 'meadow' look by not mowing their wind-sown wild grasses and perennial weeds (now in flower)
, in reply to message 28.
Posted by Scotsgardener (U13901027) on Thursday, 30th April 2009
Marinelillium - isn't a pity that we can't put big sharp bits of glass atop our walls like we used to in the good old days when we were less bothered about the Human Rights of burglars and more about the Human Rights of garden owners to enjoy their own property without fear
...and yes, now over to Cleve West....
AX
I think he's having a long lunch hour:
3 min rule
blah de blah de blah de blah de blah
Cleve!!!
Cooooeeeee!
late again.
Matthew!!!
Come on, there's a good lad!
All our presenters, and some of our posters, are manically preparing their plants, designs and stands for the Shows I think?
I wonder what the viewing figures are for Chelsea? I watch it, over and over and use the interactive button on TV even if I attend the show. CAN'T WAIT!
MLx
What's hot - long-tailed tits on the fat ball feeders, song thrushes in full song, baby squirrels trying to balance on the fence whilst running very fast and my Clematis 'Dr Ruppel' and 'Montana Reubens' both currently in full bloom.
What's not - snails eating the tops of my baby sunflowers, snails eating through the stems of any of my Clematis collection, in fact - snails, snails, snails!
This weekend I'll be potting up all my Rocket Garden herbs which came today!
Also trying to clear some of the overgrown border to place my new composter.
Some potting on to do, but that's probably all I'll manage as we're also decorating the living room!
Hoping for good weather
Belindacat
Just popping as I should really be tackling the ironing mountain for my holiday tomorrow
So the only gardening I'll be doing this weekend is crossing my fingers that there are no disasters this next week, i.e mass invasion of slugs/snail, unseasonal snow, gales, hailstorms, etc
Earthed up my potato containers today and protected my onion & carrot raised bed (only 1m x 0.5m ) with fine mesh. Oh, and sowed courgette seeds
In case Margi doesn't make it to Edinburgh. Botanical Gardens, here are some photos I took when I was there - although they are 4 weeks out of date I'm afraid:
Tulipa Tarda in the Rock Garden
Trillium Ovatum, also in the Rock Garden
Magnolia Cylindrica, on the Chinese Hillside
Have a good weekend everyone, and happy gardening
Jb
what's HOT... the roses just coming into bud around the garden - including a beauty on my climbing etoile de hollande Oh and the masses of buds on my peony this year - it's going to be a good year I think, as long as we don't get torrential downpours... my pond and all the little tadpoles wriggling around in the murky water (see the new 'sensible pond thread' on 'garden inspirations' for more details ) Oh and the sun, here in sunny norfolk
what's NOT... slugs & snails eyeing up my fresh hosta leaves, ground elder/bindweed/nettles creeping under my fence from next door (grrr) etc etc etc... and, er, dare I say it - snooker? not that there's anything else on...
loving the new look DIY GW folks, well done :D
stunning photos btw, JB... perhaps we have the beginnings of a gardening programme here anybody any good at building sheds???
(but please, no mismatched upholstery!!!)
Come along then peeps.
It's Gw time.
I made great preparations for planting out my mangetout, and have only recently been stopped by hunger and cat fights.
Anyone planning on making a sensible pond this long weekend?.
Tell us all about it!
Tomorrow I shall be harvesting spicy salad leaves, which I think may be the easiest crop ever
, in reply to message 39.
Posted by Ariadne Knickerbocker (U4534559) on Friday, 1st May 2009
Viewers question...
How do I deconstruct a decaying shed, get it through my house (I'm terraced) and take it to the dump without having to pay for a skip?
The OH will be giving a demonstration on how to remove blanket weed from a 'sensible' pond using a childs fishing net but not, alas, how to prevent it from getting there in the first place.
I shall be earthing up potato bags and putting pots of beetroot and carrot outside.
Whats hot ... a child free day and choosing matching upholstery for 'garden room' furniture.
Whats not .... the bindweeds back!
How do I deconstruct a decaying shed, get it through my house (I'm terraced) and take it to the dump without having to pay for a skip?
Ìý
Paraffin and a match?
, in reply to message 42.
Posted by Ariadne Knickerbocker (U4534559) on Friday, 1st May 2009
Holbert - that is the best idea ever!!!!!
Ta!
Put a bale of barley straw in the pond in a net sack. This works like a charm.
hmmm... wondering if a decaying shed could be turned into a Sensible Pond... ???
perhaps not - better call in the Gnomes!
, in reply to message 45.
Posted by Ariadne Knickerbocker (U4534559) on Friday, 1st May 2009
In order to conform with GW 'Apprentice-style' firings we need to eliminate several posters from this thread. Who will they be?
30 MINUTE PROJECT. How to teach the birds to sing after 7am in the morning, If I catch the Blackbird that sings on my roof at 5.30am it will 4 and 20 + 1 in the Pie!!
carmen - probably me, as I can't for the life of me work out how to persuade people to do things which I wouldn't want to do myself...
hazel - can I swap my blackbirds for yours? I wouldn't care what time they sang as long as they actually SANG - as opposed to the hysterical shrieking they do whenever my cat dares to venture into the garden - who told them to nest all over the abundant ivy on my back wall anyway!!!
oh, I forgot - we're now onto 30 minute projects... oh dear, something else I'll fail at most miserably I just can't get the hang of doing anything remotely involved with the garden by watching the clock - what would be the point of that anyway?
you've guessed it - I have a most un-manicured garden, blousy and unrestrained, and all the prettier for it IMHO
grapevinegirl,
You dont want mine, they along with the wood pigeons have left messages all over my windows and all over my car. My mum never fails to tell me it's supposed to be a sign of good luck. For who? not me who has to clean it up, guess I should be grateful it's not on the washing - Oh heck I bet I have tempted fate now!!
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