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EADD Gardening Club: Ploughing FUBAR's infertile Fields

inflorescence said:
How mature is that rose bush? I nearly said your bush...but realised someone would love that. =D
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10-15 years, it would be over 10 foot tall if i hadnt kept pruning it, but its got completely mishapen and grows too close to a giant fern so had to be hard pruned and moved. IIRC i once tried moving a less mature rose bush (one or 2 years old) and it didnt survive. Quite strange really, you'd expect the opposite to apply. 8(
 
Bob Funkhouse said:
Yeah fair enough. Mind I have actually heard several people say that due to location Northern Ireland is harder to accurately predict the weather- not sure if there's any truth in it.
Tis not the reason I don't check the forecasts anyway. Weather will be what it'll be.
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As i like walking and cycling and stuff like that i watch the weather forecast at the end of the news nearly every day.
 
mydrugbuddy said:
Will temperatures of -3 C pose a threat to the delicate new shoots and tiny little fledgeling saplings ?
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Shoots probably okay, saplings/seedlings, it depends what plants they are.. usually things are fine at -3 unless they're very tender. In which case, bring em in or fleece them up. (Or keep them on the dry side, at the very least.)
 
I think we should be allowed pictures in this thread..are we MDB? Daffs (not my favourite flower but still) are a vast blaze of yellow today and the sun is out ..yipeeeeeeeee.
My herb garden section gone wild..and frankly to the dogs...I bought so many different and slightly more off the beaten track herbs that I am not sure what some of them now are..suspect primrose seems to have made its way in their and some crocus too..how does that happen? May post some pics and breakdown of the smell if anyone can be arsed to help me identify exotic 'erbs and if that is ok? =D
 
Why not ? Here's the rose bush that had to be pruned down to nothing and moved, because both it and the fern grew bigger and closer together and all tangled up more than expected, plus the rose bush got all straggly and lost its shape. And i didn't know how to get it back. Im aiming for a kind of 'natural look' i dont like over manicured / formal type gardens with all neat neat neat OCD pristine sharp border edges and stuff like that IFKWIM.

 
Yeah, natural/wildlifey gardens are the best. That's a lovely fern!

And there's no reason images would be banned in this thread, nope.. might dig some up myself at some point.
 
swampdragon said:
Yeah, natural/wildlifey gardens are the best. That's a lovely fern!.
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Thanks. The fern gets slightly bigger every year too, each year the old leaves die off over the autumn and winter, and then the new fur ball thingy of coiled up new leaves/fronds is starting to open up right now. I have no idea when it will stop growing bigger, it might become Manchester's biggest Fern or something hahahah. The rose bush is out of its way now, so at last the fern will be able to achieve its full glory and symmetry. Yeah I'd like to see some shots of your swamp / garden.
 
I chopped a beaut of a Rose Bush down to about 5 inches ( from a rambling 10 ft or so] last week Drugbuddy. I was mortified. I loved that rose bush!!

Gardening has never really been my forte but I just got an allotment and its really stoking me up. Its on a beautiful pitch surrounded by an oak forest park. Just got all my seedlings going for it and am planting spuds next week ( was digging trenches all last week].

I was dreaming of a shed and lo and behold one manifested =] Thats getting erected next week hopefully. I'll have somewhere to make a pot o' tea and survey me land. Lol i've got v nationalistic welsh on either side with flagpoles and flags aflutterin'. Planning a Narnia flag for my little nation.

oooh and i'm getting chucks.
 
Nice to see you around, NE! Your new allotment sounds gorgeous.. especially with chickens. Definitely post photos soon. :)

(Which I shall do when I stop being lazy..)
 
Odd question but my fingers are decidedly lacking in green(ness?).

Given the temperament of British weather this Spring, are poppies a bit of a no-no? I planted some 2 weeks ago and there is zero growth.
 
i believe that it can take 2-4 weeks for the seeds to germinate. I read somewehere that they dont particularly need any specialised green fingers, all they need is suitable loose fertile soil (peat compost type stuff is perfect apparently) and climate (UK springtime is just fine). Maybe certain forms of wildlife might peck up the seeds before they germinate or if the soil is too compacted the seeds might blow away on the breeze.

From what i gather the germination rate of poppy seeds in the sping is extremely high in the UK, the problems tend to occur later on when they reach the podding stage, at that point sustained sunny weather and lack of rain would be very useful, but as we tend to only get that type of weather once every ten years or something, the chances of successfully growing decent sized potent pods dripping with alkaloids seem to be quite slim. Also snails and slugs love munching on the leaves and if left unchecked they will decimate any crop before they get the chance to form pods.

I only know all this because i read the book 'Opium For The Masses'. :sus:
 
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Bugger. Meant to toss a few handfuls of poppy seeds around and about the place with wild, gay abandon. Probably still worth a wee toss even now. Especially as poppy seeds really do grow on trees (sort of).

In more cultivated news, the chilli plants on me kitchen window sill have sprung back into life quite unexpectedly. Last year they grew to about a foot tall but only developed a few largish shade leaves which yellowed, shrivelled and died over winter leaving essentially a stick. With a mixture of laziness and optimism I left said sticks on the sill and they burst into life and leaf again a few weeks back. Not shade leaves now but smaller, bushier leaves branching out. Can't imagine they'll put on enough growth to actually flower and fruit this year but am pleased enough they're not just deaded given how stick-like their overwintering was. For some reason I thought they were annuals but seems they may be around for the longer term if suitably... ignored and left on a window sill.
 
Anyone kknow what causes the yellowing of the lower leaves of wild ornamental poppies :? If its just some older leaves naturally dying off thats not a problem, maybe some stray snails got to them, but i dont want the whole of the plants turning that way though. :sus:

Ive given them extra doses of plant food (yes real plant food, not mephedrone) The plants have been thined out massively, it was like a grass lawn to begin with they were growing so densly together. Now all the runts and stragglers and slow growers have been removed to give the strongest and more robust plants more space to flourish. All i need now is a couple of months of sustained sunny weather like we have right now, im sure that is far too much to hope for though, so i wont be rasing my expectations too high. If it could be sunny just whilst the pods mature that would be all that i ask, for those 2 events to co-incide for one time at least.8o
 
Probably just older leaves naturally dying off, I'd reckon. Although I wouldn't feed them though as I thought poppies preferred shitty unfertilised soil? If I recall correctly, which possibly I don't..
 
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