How does your garden grow?

[stringvest]

Fucking badger was back digging in the lawn last night. Little cunt. It didn't have teeth the size of lemonade bottles though.

 

Looks like it's going to have to be badger proof fencing - that's going to cost me a fortune.

 

Rico's Badger Watch.  For once, not taking part in a pub.  

[lifetime fan]

Fucking badger was back digging in the lawn last night. Little cunt. It didn't have teeth the size of lemonade bottles though.

Looks like it's going to have to be badger proof fencing - that's going to cost me a fortune.

A shotgun would be cheaper.

 

Keep the wife on her toes too.

[TheHowieLama]

[TheHowieLama]

[Champ]

Fucking badger was back digging in the lawn last night. Little cunt. It didn't have teeth the size of lemonade bottles though.

Looks like it's going to have to be badger proof fencing - that's going to cost me a fortune.

I wonder if its a time of the year thing. Several large holes have appeared in my borders, mostly around plant'roots. I long since accepted that I'm just a passing tenant on this little patch.

 

Men and their lawns, eh, rico

[Champ]

Tell me about your chilli, Howie.

 

Are you showing us the colouring or its texture?

 

I had a couple that had similar texture last summer. I thought they must be diseased.

 

I'm off to buy my chilli and tomato plants tomorrow. Who'd have thunk this was something to get excited about! Fingers crossed for a similar season to last year

[TheHowieLama]

This is for the color - the texture is due to this being hung to dry a week or so. I have not had any that showed that on vine -  a friend has a small farm and he had a bunch of jalapenos that showed similar as they came off the plant - they were fine.

[Champ]

And is that homegrown coriander lurking to the side of the shot?

I really wanted to be able to grow my own but it wasn't a patch on the commercial stuff. I wasn't going to bother again

[TheHowieLama]

Coriander?? The fresh to the right is indeed cilantro.

[neko]

Coriander?? The fresh to the right is indeed cilantro.

 

si, cilantro.

 

although we call the spice powder and seeds coriander here.

[TheHowieLama]

Yep - ground seeds are coriander here.

 

Love the fresh stuff.

[neko]

thought this was a useful article about using eggshells in the garden....

 

http://www.gardenista.com/posts/diy-5-ideas-to-use-eggshells-in-the-garden-pest-control-mulch-fertilizer

[Brownie]

People, I have loads of weeds on my lawn. I don't want them anymore.

 

I know nothing.

 

Help.

[neko]

People, I have loads of weeds on my lawn. I don't want them anymore.

 

I know nothing.

 

Help.

 

[Champ]

People, I have loads of weeds on my lawn. I don't want them anymore.

 

I know nothing.

 

Help.

You need something like this. Readily available in supermarkets, Homebase, garden centres

 

 

And in a week your grass will look something like this

 

[stringvest]

If you can get a liquid weed and feed, it will lessen the chances of you overfeeding and burning the grass. I had a bare corner of lawn with only weeds on it in April, so i seeded it and have kept it fed and it has gone from soil to grass in four weeks.

 

 

The bottom left corner in the photo. I couldnt be arsed moving my suburban rotary dryer for the picture.

 

 

 

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[Champ]

Were you very hurt?

[stringvest]

Were you very hurt?

 

mortified.  I'm going out to buy a post-industrial achingly contemporary clothes drier just as soon as the shops open.  Do you like my magnolias?

[Champ]

mortified.  I'm going out to buy a post-industrial achingly contemporary clothes drier just as soon as the shops open.  Do you like my magnolias?

Sadly not. Its a pregnancy thing that goes back to when I was expecting J. Even now I can barely look at them, or write about them, for that matter, without feeling sick.

 

I'm sure others will love them; they seem to inspire that in people

[melons]

Bump, I couldn't find the thread so I could add an updated picture. 

[melons]

Half way through the top garden, plants and decking still to go, along with finishing off the glorified shed.

 

 

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[melons]

Oh and the view from the glorified shed is this....



 

 

Edit: This was before we'd turfed and cleared a fair few shrubs and bushes. 

[PestiRed]

Oh and the view from the glorified shed is this....

 

 

Edit: This was before we'd turfed and cleared a fair few shrubs and bushes.

 

That shed will be getting extended and you'll rarely, if ever, see your husband.

 

Stupid ants have built a woolly aphid farm on my dwarf orange tree. I thought someone had wrapped half the leaves in cotton wool.

 

Getting a good crop of lemons this year though

[melons]

That shed will be getting extended and you'll rarely, if ever, see your husband.

 

Stupid ants have built a woolly aphid farm on my dwarf orange tree. I thought someone had wrapped half the leaves in cotton wool.

 

Getting a good crop of lemons this year though

 

Ha, thats mine. He's got his own shed down the bottom garden. I'm putting an electric fence around the perimeter to keep the kids away too! 

[Champ]

Half way through the top garden, plants and decking still to go, along with finishing off the glorified shed.

 

 

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Have you got a 'before' picture? From what I can remember I couldnt have imagined that you'd have so much open space. The shed's yours, right?

 

Edit. Just seen your reply about your summerhouse