The compost heap - off topic thread

Harry Palmr

Back garden not at all, prefer to let the wildflowers get thier moment in the sun.
Fronts when needed.

magicbastarder

Be careful out there, folks!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/08/brian-may-hospitalised-gardening-injury-tears-buttock-muscles

New Home

*Insert obligatory "pain in the arse" joke.*

smacl

smacl wrote: »

Ok, so I know that apples don't grow true from seed and fruit trees should be grafted on to suitable stock, but biting through a rather tasty Pink Lady last week I noticed a couple of the seed were sprouting. How long do you reckon before I get a crop from the latest additions to the orchard?

So a little less than six months on and my seedlings are saplings. Thinking of trying to keep them potted to see if the root restriction will keep them small as I'm struggling for space in the garden. Was planning on passing them on to a friend with a tree farm but grown kind of fond of them.

New Home

To paraphrase... "You're gonna need a bigger pot".

smacl

New Home wrote: »

To paraphrase... "You're gonna need a bigger pot".

Yes indeed, temporary solution for lock down based on what I had to hand. Will see what I can find once the garden centres are open again.

Harry Palmr

I had a apple graft in a 20 litre pot for three years, it didn't die and it didn't thrive it just existed. As it was only a technical exercise that I had no intention of planting (no space, cooker, only have the one) I kept it far longer than than I should have so binned it on Friday and freed up a pot.

magicbastarder

nigel, monty don's dog, is now chasing tennis balls in doggy heaven.

New Home

magicbastarder wrote: »

nigel, monty don's dog, is now chasing tennis balls in doggy heaven.

:(:(:(:(

Harry Palmr

Ah jasus that'll be a day of national mourning across the water.

finla

Aww. That's so sad. He was such a lovely dog. He had a good life though, I'd love to know how old he was.

Oh no,
How am I going to break this to the missus
She loves Nigal.

GrumpyMe

New Home wrote: »

*Insert obligatory "pain in the arse" joke.*

Ah no that would be unkind to the Gnome and it really wasn't his fault!

magicbastarder

finla wrote: »

Aww. That's so sad. He was such a lovely dog. He had a good life though, I'd love to know how old he was.

He died a week short of his 12th birthday according to Wikipedia.

SnowyMuckish

So sad, he was such a star in the show. Poor Monty, must be devastating. He’ll be dearly missed.

SnowyMuckish

I think there might be a lag of a week between recording and airing of Gardeners World. I don’t think I’ll be able to watch tomorrow if so, it’ll break my heart!

magicbastarder

i've bad news for you so:

https://twitter.com/TheMontyDon/status/1260912368193863681

Harry Palmr

My back garden Laurel has the look of drought conditions about it. Yellowing leaves and a generally wilted, can't be bothered to grow vibe.

GreeBo

Harry Palmr wrote: »

My back garden Laurel has the look of drought conditions about it. Yellowing leaves and a generally wilted, can't be bothered to grow vibe.

I moved a Laurel tree late last year and its the same. No new growth at all, I was wondering if it hadnt made the journey well and have been watering it by hand frequently. No drop off but just zero action.

A holly tree that I moved before the laurel is showing significant drop off and dying back and I'm really having to keep on top of anything in pots, I have had about 1 inch of rain the last 3 months.

GreeBo

smacl wrote: »

So a little less than six months on and my seedlings are saplings. Thinking of trying to keep them potted to see if the root restriction will keep them small as I'm struggling for space in the garden. Was planning on passing them on to a friend with a tree farm but grown kind of fond of them.

You could espalier them?

fryup

wonder what happened to Nigel...it said he got ill suddenly & died...ate a slug? aren't they poisonous to dogs?

magicbastarder

he was 12, so not especially young.
slugs are not poisonous to dogs. they can cause lungworm, but that's not generally a cause of sudden illness, AFAIK.

Harry Palmr

Big old dogs like Retrievers and similar tend to get cancer and as with humans it's often not at all obvious then a sudden decline.

Harry Palmr

Why are gardening tools so often green and brown!? :mad:

They should all be banana yellow with a built in beeper

magicbastarder

my secateurs were once found about a fortnight after going missing, had been dropped into a herbaceous bed.

s1ippy

magicbastarder wrote: »

my secateurs were once found about a fortnight after going missing, had been dropped into a herbaceous bed.

Every day is a new adventure finding my stuff. I'm a very casual gardener so going out every day to maintain it is a new experience for me and at the end of the day I can not tell you the last place I left anything.

Harry Palmr

I'm terrible for putting things down and immediately forgetting. I need one of those massive belts full of of hooks and clips.

s1ippy

I'm always gung-ho on making things as economical as possible, you'd be more likely to find me stapling loops to an existing functional belt than buying one. This year I spent thirty quid on seeds I didn't already have plants to harvest for seeds, made cubic tonnes of my own compost and I'm rotating the limited number of pots and planting space.

I could really use a rake though. My birthday is in four months time

Harry Palmr

Rain But I hope anyone with delicate potted seedlings took them in cos the drops are very big tonight and there's a lot of them.

Harry Palmr

Spilt some seeds when doing spicy salad leaves

I'm going to leave them just to see how much of a crop they yield!