How Does Your Garden Grow?

[Smallfry]

Our Cow parsley, nettles, and brambles are doing well this year.

 

[Robotstar5]

First rose of the year.

 

[500e]

Cant wait for the Evening primroses, our roses are out

 

[arther dailey]

First rose of the year.

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thats a beauty , any fragrance to it ?, really love what I would describe as proper old fashioned true rose

 

[Onoff]

This year I planted the beans a foot apart rather than 6" last year. I grew more than I planted so still have few in pots looking for homes.

A few seem to have dried out / become pot bound so I've started in filling a few of the foot gaps and replacing a few that the slugs have had. Got to find homes for all these assorted beans and 4 butternut squash:

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https://flic.kr/p/2pXnUm5

 

[Kram]

Cherries were pleasant. Not sour as I was expecting. Stone was reasonably large though. I am going to try planting the seeds, will pot them first and if any grow they can go in the woodland opposite us.

 

[Pete.]

If you want better fruit fertilise with a healthy dose of chicken manure fertiliser. That's what made my gooseberry and blackcurrant bushes produce a load of fruit.

 

[Puglet1]

Help needed. I built my wife x2 raised beds which stand about 3ft high x 3ft wide x 8ft long.
We filled it with old turf at the bottom and top soil.
Prior to lining the base with the turf we asked the local garden centre if it was ok and they said yes.
She has planted various things- but has had no success.
We have now discovered Wire Worms are the culprit and they have a 4 year cycle.
We are trying nematodes and also trapping them using a potato just underneath the surface of the soil.
Does anyone have any experience / proven methods of how to get rid of them?

 

[Kram]

Just been out between the rains and given the pathway hedge a trim back as the council are not doing it. There were a few large brambles going across and starting to irritate me. I dont have a hedge trimmer so chainsaw was used with my cheapest chinese chain.

 

[Kram]

I left a couple of cherries on tree for birds. Also a handfull that I picked early that sheivelled up indoors, left out for them.

Greedy fooker of a pigeon snapped the top of the tree off to get one of them

I attempted to tape graft it up but I doubt it will work. Removed most of the leaves to help it.

 

[DAPPH]

If you want better fruit fertilise with a healthy dose of chicken manure fertiliser. That's what made my gooseberry and blackcurrant bushes produce a load of fruit.

One stone to a 9 inch pot set at a five time the diameter of the stone , much less and they quickly run out of space , 15 inch long cuttings work best if done in early frost free November 9 inches deep.

 

[DAPPH]

Help needed. I built my wife x2 raised beds which stand about 3ft high x 3ft wide x 8ft long.
We filled it with old turf at the bottom and top soil.
Prior to lining the base with the turf we asked the local garden centre if it was ok and they said yes.
She has planted various things- but has had no success.
We have now discovered Wire Worms are the culprit and they have a 4 year cycle.
We are trying nematodes and also trapping them using a potato just underneath the surface of the soil.
Does anyone have any experience / proven methods of how to get rid of them?

As they are high raised beds it's easier to treat the bed with wireworm nematodes ..... find them on eBay

 

[Puglet1]

Thanks DAPPH. I’ve ordered some and will give it a try.
Have you tried them?
Were they effective?

 

[God mode restorations]

Evening all. Any of you guys or gals grow or have dahlias. My Mrs and I had a lot of them last year but this year these little gray slugs have absolutely destroyed them am I am really ****** off. Have tried different products but no joy. I even go out at night after watering and hunt for the faffn things. Anyone having the same problem

 

[Onoff]

SWMBO had a lettuce in the fridge a bit past it's best. I've scattered the leaves outside the the bean patch as a sacrificial offering to the Slug King.

 

[Onoff]

More off lettuce spread outside the bean enclosure tonight and some cat fur placed around a couple of chewed ones.

 

[DAPPH]

Thanks DAPPH. I’ve ordered some and will give it a try.
Have you tried them?
Were they effective?

Yes eventually after four or five years of annual treatments for wire worm and also slug nematodes there are no slugs , wire worms or snails in the treated area . But if you reduce bi annual treatment to zero they creep back in in 18 months or so then in a wet year like the last one they go crazy at their spring slugfest & the wire worms tunnel into your prize carrots and other long root crops

 

[DAPPH]

More off lettuce spread outside the bean enclosure tonight and some cat fur placed around a couple of chewed ones.

Go outside tonight about 23.30hrs with a small bright pencil beam LED torch & your specs on or a decent magnifying glass .. you'll soon find the slugs or snails , drop them in some strong salt water solution and compost them after a week sd there won't be any eggs to speak of .

 

[DAPPH]

Evening all. Any of you guys or gals grow or have dahlias. My Mrs and I had a lot of them last year but this year these little gray slugs have absolutely destroyed them am I am really ****** off. Have tried different products but no joy. I even go out at night after watering and hunt for the faffn things. Anyone having the same problem

Same happened in the flower beds this year , after a four years break of not using nematode control

Use slug Nematode treatment ...... wet the ground well towards evening then apply the nematodes from a watering can with the rose turned up wards to get a nice soft spray as instructed . Keep the soil moist at night , repeat the application 3 weeks later .

 

[brightspark]

i just buy slug pellets and sprinkle round the garden sorts them along with using a spray to kill lilly beatles and soapy water to kill green and black fly