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cedarblue
Jun 4th, 2008, 02:43 PM
oh dear!
lovely!!
..and no!!!! :D
ooooops, this is a reply to a previous aradia post.
good work emma - snail are cute when they're not eating my veggies:D
rantipole
Jun 4th, 2008, 06:25 PM
Arrgh. I didn't read the instructions on some fertilizer carefully and burned up my peppermint and cilantro. I hope the honeysuckle doesn't die, but it looks bad. Does anyone know of anything that will help?
In better news, the poblano peppers, corn, nasturtiums, and marigolds look great.
Cheers,
rant
Maisiepaisie
Jun 4th, 2008, 07:45 PM
Does anyone know of anything that will help?
Lots of water to dilute the effect maybe? I got some liquid fertilizer on my skin this morning and it burns like hell.
rantipole
Jun 5th, 2008, 06:10 PM
Lots of water to dilute the effect maybe? I got some liquid fertilizer on my skin this morning and it burns like hell.
I did try that. I think it has saved the honeysuckle. The peppermint is past hope. I will always thoroughly read the instructions on fertilizer in the future. And to think that this was organic fertilizer. I hate to think what the nasty conventional stuff could do.
Thanks!
Cheers,
rant
emmapresley
Jun 5th, 2008, 06:16 PM
^ arrgh grim.
hope your honeysuckle is ok.
here is tomorrows hack up job..a stack of ivy and a very overgrown fuschia bush, topped by vicious rose briars. that path is about twice as wide again. will post an after pic when finished.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s268/emmapresley/Picture002-1.jpg
bryzee86
Jun 6th, 2008, 12:24 AM
what a large overgrown bush you have....
whalespace
Jun 7th, 2008, 08:18 PM
Go EmmaP, [ fearless garden guerilla].
You made that sound like a recipe :D.
veganbikerboy
Jun 8th, 2008, 05:26 PM
Me & PR made some progress in my garden this weekend. put some more strawberries in and cleared some areas that had become over grown.
I desperatly need to cut the lawn but there must have been about 100 (i am not exaggerating!) baby frogs hopping about so i havent been able to do it, we cleared some of the duckweed from the pond. It looks like I have frogs and toads, also these other weird looking things I am not sure if they are newts or some sort of dragonfly?
My pond lilly is doing fab:D
Also my wild flower garden is just starting to flower; it is only its second year and it looks fantastic:)
a couple of questions -
anyone know of an organic way to keep duckweed away?? (or reduce it?)
Should i 'trim' my lily? it is huge, taking over the pond a little?
veganlinda
Jun 11th, 2008, 12:29 AM
lovely view from your garden Emmap!
I did lots of hacking at the weekend and now need to cut up lots of twiggy bits so they will fit into green bags... repotted my tomato plants and have them outside now and did a few hanging baskets. Another couple of days work to go though. But myd my wild strawberries are ripening so a nice incentive!
VBB I envy you your pond and froggies ... is your cat leaving them alone!
rantipole
Jun 11th, 2008, 05:23 PM
Well, I think the honeysuckle is dead. The cilatro looks like it will survive.
A cool thing is that I scattered a bunch of old seeds I wasn't going to plant into my tortoise pen, figuring if any sprouted the tortoises could eat them. I now have about half a dozen watermelons, lots of nasturtiums, and some type of lettuce growing in there. Yea! Food for me and my critters.
Cheers,
rant
snivelingchild
Jun 13th, 2008, 04:34 AM
one out of 3 eggplants died, and my cucumbers have black spots. *crosses fingers* The tomato plants are nice and big though, and a couple lettuces are coming strong.
Aradia
Jun 18th, 2008, 07:58 PM
Fennel .. .did you know that if you cut it off at just above ground level, rather than pulling up the whole root .. .you should get a second crop of itsy bitsy fennel.
Same with cabbages .. cut if off, then cut a cross in what's left and you'll get baby cabbages. (with cabbages, cut off what you need, then wrap the rest in foil .. it will keep much better on the plant than in your fridge).
My spinach bolted yesterday :(
If you have spuds in the ground, plant stuff like lettuce and spinach in between .. the shade will help stop them bolting.
whalespace
Jun 22nd, 2008, 09:26 AM
Thanks. I hadn't thought of using aluminium foil; easily recyclable too. I try to take the big outer leaves from lettuce and cabbage, leaving the plant to continue growing and opening. Also, plucking selectively at a row of lettuce, dropping the chopped size bits in a rinse bowl, can let light in to the remaining parts...and possibly leave a bitter response...and a non attractive prize for opportunistic shoppers.
Lots of things keep for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages in the garden . The garden is also the sensible place for dressing, and rinsing vegetables... leave the mud, grit, and compost outside, and get some fresh air [maybe some birdsong;)].
I have half realised some tiny drying huts... which the mice will [I]love .
Mr Flibble
Jun 22nd, 2008, 12:35 PM
My pond lilly is doing fab:D
I should hope so, it has had some very special fertilizer ;)
Hemlock
Jun 22nd, 2008, 01:43 PM
To our horror we have ground elder everywhere, it is killing the apple tree. We've been digging trenches to get rid of it. It's all in the grass too and short of rotovating the entire lawn and starting again we will never be rid of it.
Our options are to kill it all with poison which we don't want or rotovate the entire garden and start again. We may well do that as the grass is extremely poor quality.
There is no question of planting anything untill it is all gone - this really is a disaster!!!
whalespace
Jun 23rd, 2008, 07:17 AM
I like a spot of mattocking. and I'm not sure I've ever been to the South Downs....
If you can't find a rotivator, but you can supply green molasses tea through a hose pipe, then I might be able to help you.
No promises.
Mzee
Jun 23rd, 2008, 06:39 PM
Hemlock,
Yes, get rid of the lawn! It was the best thing I did with my garden. Growing veg is actually less work than looking after a lawn and you get free vegan organic food!
You'll never get rid of the ground elder unless you do. I suppose mulching with black plastic for a year might work (better than using poisons!:eek:), but you'd then need to re-seed the lawn and there'd be no guarantee that the ground elder wouldn't come back.
VBB
What variety of water lily do you have? They come in such a range; some need a deep lake, others will behave themselves in a small pond. I wanted a native species and my pond is small. I eventually managed to get hold of the Fringed Water Lily, Nymphoides peltata, which is small and dainty. It sends out runners, but it's not hard to keep under control; I just remove the ones I don't want.
None of my pond plants are in pots; I put some fine soil in the bottom of the pond and the plants do much better in that. Also, when the water level drops in dry spells, I don't see the pots sticking up out of the water.
moggy
Jun 26th, 2008, 06:33 PM
Cedarblue, your garden looks amazing.
VBB, I envy you all those frogs.
I've only just started posting on this site, though I joined a long time ago.I've only just found this gardening part- brilliant, just what I'm searching for.
rantipole
Jun 27th, 2008, 03:13 PM
Does anyone have any ideas for vegen slug control? They are devastating my garden. Thanks!
Cheers,
rant
Risker
Jun 27th, 2008, 08:12 PM
Does anyone have any ideas for vegen slug control? They are devastating my garden. Thanks!
Cheers,
rant
Yes - http://www.veganforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=457583&postcount=483
moggy
Jun 28th, 2008, 09:44 AM
A brief(ish) summary of my plant growing.
This year I'm trying tomatoes, (though the bad weather is meaning the outdoor tomatoes are still indoors), broad beans (both inside the polytunnel and outside), runner beans(again in and out the polytunnel), potatoes, and on the fruit front, strawberries(inside)and raspberries (outside)
I'm 800 ft above sea level on a north facing Welsh hillside- not exactly good for growing, hence the polytunnels. I have unlimited amounts of manure due to the presence of 2 pigs, 2 sheep, and 2 horses (all permanent residents, not destined for the plate)
I also grow hundreds/thousands of plants to sell in a charity shop for cat rescue- its the only way I can fundraise whist my dogs get to play in the field.
I am pretty crap at growing plants- there's usually a high rate of failure. Basically in winter the polytunnels are full of plants for fundraising because winter is so harsh here they wouldnt survive outside whilst in plantpots, and then in summer I use the polytunnels for the tomatoes etc.
I'm skint, but if I can scrape together the money I want to buy walnut and apple trees- there a place not too far away that sells local varieties suitable for even this area.
My garden area is not good due to the pigs and sheep constantly breaking in and eating everything.
Maisiepaisie
Jun 30th, 2008, 12:04 PM
The garlic wash works but I don't always do it as often as I should. I put bits of wilted lettuce near my growing veg and the slugs seems to prefer that and leave my good veg alone.
Putting gravel around plants and veg helps too. The slugs usually don't like to go over it.
RubyDuby
Jun 30th, 2008, 05:03 PM
In the movie Bernard & Doris they put apple slices down away from whatever the slugs are eating and they go for the apples instead. similar idea to the wilted lettuce leaves.
rantipole
Jun 30th, 2008, 09:27 PM
Yes - http://www.veganforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=457583&postcount=483
I'll try this! Thanks!
Cheers,
rant
whalespace
Jul 1st, 2008, 07:01 PM
Regarding #456: moggy;
That sounds busy moggy.
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