How does your garden grow?

[Champ]

 

(Bet you can't grow lemons and watermelons though)

 

I wish and grapes intertwining a pergola overhead *sigh*

 

 

And it was regret I have to inform you, Colin, that the gooseberry bush I planted last year isnt looking too chipper.

 

I was about to say I've all but given up on growing food (slugs) but I've got some good rhubarb, the blueberries are looking promising and I've got a healthy collection of herbs so it aint all doom and gloom

[Trumo]

Trump - already growing melons,probably easier than attracting the welsh alternative

 

Yer wha'? I'll have you know that while I don't have a multi-billion dollar property empire and a shitload of money in the bank, I DO have my own hair!

[moof]

You just wait til the weeds start showing through between the cracks

 

They wouldn't dare.

[Champ]

 

They wouldn't dare.

 

Don't you be so sure

[Rico1304]

I'm not sure rico is the gun slinging type

 

 

 

 

(now there's a challenge to his manliness if I'm not mistaken)

 

No, not my style at all!

[Champ]

 

No' date=' not my style at all![/quote']

 

Hey, wait, what about all those checked shirts?

[Rico1304]

Hey, wait, what about all those checked shirts?

 

This town ain't big enough for the both of us!

[Chairman Meow]

rico, kill it and hang it's corpse from the washing line as a warning to the others. Badgers tend to take shit from no one, death is the only real answer to a Badger problem.

 

Regarding gardens I don't have one being a borderline transient living like a teenager in my parents spare room. I just wanted to advocate rico going on a nocturnal Badger slaughtering mission.

[Rico1304]

I'm not the rampaging, murdering sort. Ill have to find some kind of assassin.

[Champ]

I'm not the rampaging' date=' murdering sort. [/quote']

 

I told you you were too nice for this place

[Rico1304]

As I mentioned earlier I'm trying to get the developer to put a wire fence down to keep it out. I'm not getting very far at them moment. I've got pictures showing the damage before we moved in, so I'm saying they should sort it. They are saying that its coming from Council land so I need to take it up with them. They've also provided an environmental report saying no sign of badger activity despite their being a massive sett about 20 meters from my house.

 

My tactics now are;

 

A) mentioning the badger to all the people I see coming to view the empty house next to us and to the show home 3 doors away. Hopefully they are asking the sales guy about it. It's going along all the gardens so fingers crossed they'll have to sort it to sell.

B) going to the local paper about the obviously moody report. This development wasn't popular with locals so there might be some interest there.

[jonnybastard]

It's approx 100 x 30 ish metres, bordered by trees, with various fruit trees and the occasional poppy scattered around. Pretty much a blank canvas for a keen gardener, so I built a short course for me and the kids to ride pit bikes round. Fuck the neighbours.

[Rico1304]

Just got back from the shops to see a couple looking at the house next door - casually mentioned Badgergate!

[A Red]

Moles. Bastard things, I've got my top man on the case now

 

 

 

 

 

 

[lifetime fan]

This is the guy you need...

 

 

 

[RJ Fan club]

We moved into a new gaff a few weeks back. 90ft back garden, haven't got a clue what I'm doing, but I'm giving it a bash.

 

I've cleared a patch at the bottom of the garden, dug it over, planted some onions, spinach, runner beans, chilis, courgettes and sweetcorn. Looks like there was some redcurrant and fruit plants in there as well, so will look after those. Banged in a raspberry too, but it was looking manky at the garden centre, on offer... 10p, will need a better come back that Lazarus

 

I'm starting off small on the veg, and hoping to sort out the rest of the garden, then I'll build up some raised beds and sort out the soil for next year. Mate of ours has got some good mature manure and the compost pile left by the old boy in the new gaff looks decent. So should get a decent crop in the next few years.

 

The veg will be fine, the flower and shrubs, not a fucking clue. I think I'll tidy up what is there and weed out the shite, big thing is getting the patio sorted for the world cup next year. Reckon I'll need to level it out and convert the garage with bar for the inevitable rain hit fixtures.

[Champ]

How would you get rid of dandelions growing in the gap between tarmac and pavers?

 

Bleach, provided you use a small amount and it's not near other plants

 

Update: Well, I put the bleach on; the plants are dying back slowly. It remains to be seen whether it has seen them off for good. (My neighbours doing something with their shithole of a garden would help)

 

How about the lawn, Pesti?

[stringvest]

After 20 hours of rain, my garden is looking well lush. I haven't dug out my veg beds yet though - too much other stuff happening - but will get it done this weekend.

[RJ Fan club]

A cat keeps shitting near my veg. Little cunt will get his..

 

*loads 12 Bore*

[Champ]

After 20 hours of rain' date=' my garden is looking well lush. I haven't dug out my veg beds yet though - too much other stuff happening - but will get it done this weekend.[/quote']

 

I lost all my veg to the rain and slugs last year. My veg patch is currently a very useful holding bed and I just don't know that I have the energy to waste on them this year.

 

My herbs in pots and around the garden are looking good though so its not all bad news

[Champ]

A cat keeps shitting near my veg. Little cunt will get his..

 

*loads 12 Bore*

 

See, rico!

[General Dryness]

I wish and grapes intertwining a pergola overhead *sigh*

 

Just to make you feel better, the next stage of our renovation will be a deck with a pergola overhead. With a decorative grape vine grown all over it for shade. Going for the kind that doesn't produce grapes, as we don't want bird shit all over our nice new deck. I'll post some pics when its done.

 

We've got a grape-producing vine growing down the back fence, trimmed it back after we moved in, the things like a horizontal tree its that thick. Plus a lemon tree with lemons the size of Ray Clemences fist, and an olive tree and a feijoa tree (New Zealand fruit, don't like them myself).

 

Its one fertile bastard of an area this. Great weather too.

[neko]

Well, well - what have we here. Another gardening thread, I see ?

 

A lot of talk about grass, not many pictures of gardening.

 

Couple pics of the back garden in the rain/mist I took today with my new wide angle lens. Irises and oriental poppies are almost done for the year, but the grasses will take over soon enough.

 

 

[Champ]

Strictly amateurs on here, mister

[General Dryness]

 

Need to finish staining the deck there fella.