How Does Your Garden Grow?

[Onoff]

It's like a magical fairytale! How do they find the string?

 

[Onoff]

Special offer to forum members only if bought within the next 30 seconds!

My pat pending slug trap. Add your own beer, slug can enter from 4 directions. Dairy free (possibly).

Does a fiver each or 4 for £25 sound fair?

Rain cover extra.

Vegan option POA.

Hurry as the bin men are coming Wednesday!

I've just drunk the prop.

 

[sardine]

I go round the back of my local DIY store when I'm passing and look in their dead plants bin, most of them are not dead they just didn't water them and can't sell wilted plants, usual for about 70% to come back to life after a soaking overnight and repotting. This is the last lot I got.

Roses, Rhododendrons, lavender , plus four Honeysuckle I already planted and an unkown fruit tree .

 

[4String.]

Someone suggested I "feed" my beans. Reluctant to use a fertiliser what with any run off etc. Is Miracle Gro Organic any good?

It's great if you've got more money than sense .

Buy a cheap 2 gallon bucket, (less than 30/- at Screwfix), and fill it full of young nettle tops. Cover them with water then weight them down with such as a dinner plate with a housebrick on top so they're completely submerged. Wait 2 or 3 weeks, (you'll know it's ready by the rancid stench of decomposing vegetation ), then add the resultant brew to water. It's very strong so something in the region of 1 part brew to 10 parts water.

No wasted packaging going to landfill, no debatable chemicals ultimately making their way into the food chain, the waste nettles can be safely composted, and apart from the price of the bucket all it costs is a bit of time and energy so everyone's a winner .

 

[addjunkie]

It's great if you've got more money than sense .

Buy a cheap 2 gallon bucket, (less than 30/- at Screwfix), and fill it full of young nettle tops. Cover them with water then weight them down with such as a dinner plate with a housebrick on top so they're completely submerged. Wait 2 or 3 weeks, (you'll know it's ready by the rancid stench of decomposing vegetation ), then add the resultant brew to water. It's very strong so something in the region of 1 part brew to 10 parts water.

No wasted packaging going to landfill, no debatable chemicals ultimately making their way into the food chain, the waste nettles can be safely composted, and apart from the price of the bucket all it costs is a bit of time and energy so everyone's a winner .

Alpaca poo and water about 10% poo mix into a soup, and dilute furter. No waiting time, straight on the plants. Very high in nitrogen

 

[Onoff]

Alpaca poo and water about 10% poo mix into a soup, and dilute furter. No waiting time, straight on the plants. Very high in nitrogen

Will a llama do as they're ten a penny round here?

 

[addjunkie]

Will a llama do as they're ten a penny round here?

Yea but not quite as good!

 

[Onoff]

Those shop bought runners in a pot and dwarf beans in another that SWMBO did, well looking last night and they are pretty decimated! The copper band around each pot has done FA. Reckon in part as she used compost from the bin that wasn't that well rotted and imported the buggers with it.

Can't remember which, (runner or dwarf pot) but I must have picked 10 slugs and snails off the plants.

I've placed a beer trap in the centre of one pot, the worst affected. Whether they're salvageable I don't know. Pics later if there's anything left.

So far the 50 runners from seed are doing ok and starting to climb as aforementioned.

That pile of slugs above. Thought they were all dead but the pile I dumped on the ground, most seem to have come back to life. All spread out from where I dumped them.

 

[Kram]

The copper band around each pot has done FA

Needs a slug version of the wasp zapper!

 

[Onoff]

DIY fertiliser then...

I don't know about young nettle tops but these buggers went in roots and all after stinging me umpteen times through rubber gloves!

Topped off with water from a rain butt then weighted with a paver and plastic lid from somewhere.

Made a roof from a bit of old HV mat or does it want a "tight" cover / lid?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Needs a slug version of the wasp zapper!

I discovered yesterday that a quick squirt of WD-40 kills wasps instantly, who knew?

 

[Anguz]

I discovered yesterday that a quick squirt of WD-40 kills wasps instantly, who knew?

And better fun if you light it first

 

[Onoff]

I discovered yesterday that a quick squirt of WD-40 kills wasps instantly, who knew?

Thought everybody did? The "WD" stands for "Wasp Destroyer"...

 

[Onoff]

Don't kill wasps or flies:

Experts warn not to kill wasps or flies when they fly in your house this summer

The number of flying insects has fallen by 60 per cent in the UK in just under 20 years.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

 

[Barking Mat]

Looking good. Nice work.

 

[Kram]

Don't kill wasps or flies:

Experts warn not to kill wasps or flies when they fly in your house this summer

The number of flying insects has fallen by 60 per cent in the UK in just under 20 years.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Based on number plate splats, not the most controlled study. Perhaps since 2004 people drive slower or differently. Car shapes have changed and so will the air flow. Theres no shortage of the biters down here.
Driving will kill far more than the couple that get into a house anyway.

Conservation charities Buglife and the Kent Wildlife Trust tasked members of the public to take note of the number of insects splattered against their registration place.

When compared with a similar study carried out in 2004, insect counts were down by 65 per cent in England and a 28 per cent fall in Scotland.

The cause might be simply more doggers bagging their poop and hanging it on a bush, rather thsn leaving it out to rot in the sun with the flies?

 

[T5 TDI]

We try not to use commercial chemicals in the garden. Mrs T is the proper gardener, I just dig the holes when instructed and build things. My favorite position is prone on the garden swing in the sun with a beer enjoying the garden and chatting as she works.. Re the slugs, everyone has their thing for killing or deterring them. We are not keen on killing anything in the garden so Mrs T has sacrificial lettuce. We like our fresh lettuce so she puts a few spare juicy leaves around any new tender plants and in general the slugs/snails spend most of their time chomping on the easy pickings. Not fail safe but better than slug bait and all those half dead slimy remains.

 

[Onoff]

The cause might be simply more doggers bagging their poop

More likely flashing their lights. I don't think they bother to bag their poop?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Based on number plate splats, not the most controlled study. Perhaps since 2004 people drive slower or differently. Car shapes have changed and so will the air flow. Theres no shortage of the biters down here.
Driving will kill far more than the couple that get into a house anyway.

Beat me to it, statics can be selectively manipulated to prove almost any standpoint.

I don't mind wasps if they stay outside and don't come buzzing around me, having been stung once I'll never forget just how painful it is. Also, they can sting multiple times, unlike a bee.

 

[Onoff]

Took these pictures yesterday evening.

The potted runners:

& the dwarf beans:

This morning, 1 snail chomping on the runners

Would these survive I wonder being transplanted to somewhere better suited / protected? Especially the runners, they're going to want to climb higher I'm sure.