How Does Your Garden Grow?

[Onoff]

Mine used to be nice to sit out of a sunny day but now there's stuff all over it like swings, Rocking chairs, Tables etc but all of them are filled with Bonsai trees now!, Also, the grass is almost non existent and there are no leaves on the hedges, I hate winter!!

It's more like this now but with Bonsai trees trees everywhere! (Minus the grass and hedge foliage at the moment!!)

John

Space for a trampoline there...

 

[DAPPH]

Mine used to be nice to sit out of a sunny day but now there's stuff all over it like swings, Rocking chairs, Tables etc but all of them are filled with Bonsai trees now!, Also, the grass is almost non existent and there are no leaves on the hedges, I hate winter!!

It's more like this now but with Bonsai trees trees everywhere! (Minus the grass and hedge foliage at the moment!!)

John

Do you belong to a bonsai club? My lass is a member of Dragon Bonsai ( she's not the dragon ) it's a club in South Wales .

I turned some parts of my compost heap over this afternoon, and it's a bit compost-y at the bottom so might not be quite such a waste of space as I thought. I also watered it a bit, to try to help. Let's see what happens. I've been trying to drop the level in the water butts so I can put an overflow pipe in one of them, and this is better than just pouring it down the drain. I'll have to see if I can empty it to put plastic down at some point, maybe if it rots down a bit.

Don't over do the watering . Use a thick rod bar etc. to poke deep holes in the compost and put a pint or so of water in down these holes .once a month . The moisture and oxygen drawn in down th holes carries on feed ing the beneficial moulds & bacteria that breakdown the compostable matter into plant food .. make it too wet and it will drain out the valuable nutrients out the bottom as a stinking dark tea colour with a trace of natural fruit & vegetable oil ( & fats ) sometimes .

I have compost bins on 6 inch thick concrete slabs with a couple of feet walkway all round . Once a bin is free of normal coloured un rotted down matter , as it's part rotted / composted , I take the bin body off and fork the heap into the adjacent bin , re-lid it and let it rot as well as giving it bit of aggro in the top foot or so once a fortnight from my garden claw .

Then it's start the empty bin off again .

Once the second stage bin has been turned in the top foot for four or five months this then gets decanted into my garden trailer then put in one of five other " Finished " compost bins ready for use ..... using the oldest stuff ( 5 to7 yr old stuff ) first
In some places you can get base trays for the Dalek bins off the local authorities as well as the bins themselves . IIRC they can also be found on eBay . Cement mixer stand trays are about £20 and might fit

 

[johnny7]

Do you belong to a bonsai club? My lass is a member of Dragon Bonsai ( she's not the dragon ) it's a club in South Wales .

Don't over do the watering . Use a thick rod bar etc. to poke deep holes in the compost and put a pint or so of water in down these holes .once a month . The moisture and oxygen drawn in down th holes carries on feeding the beneficial moulds & bacteria that breakdown the compostable matter into plant food .. make it too wet and it will drain out the valuable nutrients out the bottom as a stinking dark tea colour with a trace of natural fruit & vegetable oil ( & fats ) sometimes .

I have compost bins on 6 inch thick concrete slabs with a couple of feet walkway all round . Once a bin is free of normal coloured un rotted down matter , as it's part rotted / composted , I take the bin body off and fork the heap into the adjacent bin , re-lid it and let it rot as well as giving it bit of aggro in the top foot or so once a fortnight from my garden claw .

Then it's start the empty bin off again .

Once the second stage bin has been turned in the top foot for four or five months this then gets decanted into my garden trailer then put in one of five other " Finished " compost bins ready for use ..... using the oldest stuff ( 5 to7 yr old stuff ) first
In some places you can get base trays for the Dalek bins off the local authorities as well as the bins themselves . IIRC they can also be found on eBay . Cement mixer stand trays are about £20 and might fit

Hi DAPPH

Ys, I've been a member of South Yorkshire Bonsai Society since around 1999

Thanks for the advice.


John

 

[Greeves246]

First heavy rain of the year might force a rethink and moving

 

[DAPPH]

Put another two lifts on each raised bed and wear wellies ..Happy new year .