Gardening thread
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I'm sorry Brian, we're going to have to deport you.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I've heard Rwanda is nice this time of year.
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Perhaps I should try returning to the UK from France in a fortnight in a small boat, and hope to get turned back and be granted asylum there. I'll even save the French money by offering to stay in my own house.
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A brief, damp look at the French garden - as expected the 'lawn' is a jungle, and though the greengage is looking a bit peaky, with not fruit, the cherry is looking peachy, with (currently) lots of unripe cherries.
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Time to do your 'grim reaper' thing.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Grim Poldark, but the sun needs to make an appearance before the T shirt comes off. Weather not looking great at the moment for swooning fans.
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Petrol strimmer or a couple of goats I reckon. Good luck on getting it cut.
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Looks like it wants to be an orchard to me. Maybe a vine or two would work well in that climate and wouldn't need lots of maintenance.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Is Thibaut Pinot close enough to you?
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I've made a start, with a quick once-over Poldarking (I'll spare you the photo evidence), and I got about 2/3 done with the ace battery rotary mower before the two batteries had had enough for today. Should get it completed for its first go-over by tomorrow evening. Will then aim to get it with a slightly tighter cut next weekend to make it look tidy before I leave. I can't be doing with strimmers, but scythe and rotary mower seem to work well... the first cut is always the toughest.
The aim of the garden is to have a mixture of shade and sun around a usable lawn, so I can put out a table & chairs in the summer and friends can bask or otherwise. Did think about running some vines along the boundary - that might still happen, though maybe the ground isn't free-draining enough for them to flourish.
I might do a bit more with it depending on how much time I end up managing to get here... work in progress.
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Rhododendrons out the front are doing very well without any input from us.
Although the Wisteria looks like it's half dead. Not sure what to do about that.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
It sure seems to have been a bumper year for rhododendrons. Hmm, yes, the wisteria looks underwhelming, given that most of the ones I've seen have looked pretty rampant. Maybe it's taken offence at the added lighting feature and thinks it's being upstaged...
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We now all know what Stevo looks like for when the revolution comes 😉
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X marks the spot, though I didn't realise quite how much of a Musk fanboi be was... even copied the font there...
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That Wisteria looks way too leggy. Does it get its twice yearly trim, late winter and summer?
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Good spot there Pross 🙂 That's July the 4th so I'd better pack my bags...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
We inherited it, so probably got no attention at all for years. I'll ask Mrs. 666 what if anything has been done to it since she took over on the flower tending side of things. As I don't know...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
It never was that impressive but is even less so this year. We probably need to do some research on giving it a spot of tlc like Loon suggests. We are a bit lazy leaving the Xmas lights there but it's a bit of a faff to untangle them.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Prune a Wisteria to encourage flowering rather than the rampant vegetative leaf leaders they will throw. So in summertime, post flowering, trim back those whippy leaders to keep just a few leaves, say half dozen. Late winter / early spring, I would tend to do such in February but do it before the buds start to break, prune the shoots back to just a few buds, 3-4 max.
You want to have a main stem structure trained to where you want it, and remove the excess leaders.
Consultancy invoice in the post 😉
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Ta Loon - the flowers is what Mrs. 666 wants, although looks like we've missed the boat with the early spring pruning this year.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Phew. Got the lawn hacked down with its first untidy scything/mowing, four batteries-worth. No play tomorrow, as it's going to be raining., but hope to get another tidier mowing done either Tuesday, or next weekend (as am away avoiding asbestos dust from the old roof removal from Wednesday).
Hope to get a decent 'after' photo before I leave, but if not, at least it won't be quite such a jungle when I'm here for a few days at the start of July.
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Not only did I get the lawn tidied this morning before the rain (though some shears-work round the edges still required), but I've got my first gooseberries. Doesn't get much more exciting than this.
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A week away cycling and the garden has gone rampant!
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Am slightly dreading getting back myself. Ah well, will have been good for the wildlife.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition1 -
Time to leave the garden for five weeks, and I'm pleased to have got the lawn looking good. Cherries, gooseberries and blackcurrants in evidence, but I'll probably miss all of them ripening by the time I'm back. Oh well.
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Grass was knee high 😬. Now mostly under control but could do with a scythe as the mower tends to just push over the long stuff rather than cutting it.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Strim then mow seemed to work pretty well when we did our overdue lawn haircut.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Need to find a spare hour to work out which model of generic strimmer wire I need then purchase. It's at the back of the shed so consequently it was more interesting to make a bow and arrow for the youngest.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
If you get it in the thickness you need the twisted strimmer line seems to last better
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Thanks for the tip.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0
