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Today I did something in my Garden

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In the car maintenance forum there is a popular thread called "Today I did something to my car"

I'm proposing a similar thread for gardening that the mods might consider making a sticky! Please give a THANKS if you think this is a good idea.

I'll kick it of with:

Today I picked my redcurrants. They seem to have been early this year. They mostly ripen together but I will get a handful more over the next week. I have a small bush in a dodgy location but I got a couple of hundred grams that will make some nice jelly.

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scarepanda

Can anyone recommend any good books or websites that help with the design of a wildlife friendly garden?

We are trying to get a plan of action in place for this autumn so that we can start with getting a good foundation in place to develop over the next few years.

macraignil

looksee wrote: »

I'd love if Valerian would self seed into the ruined bit of building in front of the house! I suppose if I mixed seed with a bit of soil and rubbed the mix into crevices in the mortar I might get a result? There are a couple of small harts tongue ferns stubbornly growing in more modern concrete patching in one place. Its a potentially charming ruin that needs a bit of attention to improve the look of it.

I am slightly hors de combat at the moment so all my gardening is going on in my head, you wouldn't believe the amazing results! I think an hour with the Chiltern catalogue and a cup of tea is in my immediate future.

Although now most of my red valerian flowers are from self sown plants I started off with seeds I got online. I saw them growing on walls and all sorts of awkward spots in the local area so thought they would be ideal for the north facing steep bank at the front of the house. I started the seed in window boxes with compost and planted them out when the were already started growing and found this worked well. They were small when I planted them out so I did not have to do much digging to find places to put them and there was not much soil to dig in where I was putting them anyway. Might work better than just putting the seed where you want them to grow.

Harry Palmr

That's war you'll never win! Surrender now

looksee

Mine is the same, the drainage is amazing. There is a nice layer of fertile, light, good quality, I think neutral to acid, soil on top, then some subsoil that is not fertile but is very improvable, and under that is pretty much shale. I am only getting used to it but it seems very good to grow stuff. Judging by the quantities of nettles it grows it is really good! And bindweed. OMG the bindweed. War has been declared.

Harry Palmr

Tuesday? I can't remember that far back! Yes it did but my garden is made up of the most amazingly light soil - no clay at all. It's great to work but it sure won't hold moisture.

looksee

It rained solidly all day in several bits of Waterford on Tuesday, including Waterford city. My garden has perked up and looking very enthusiastic (the weeds, that is) in north Waterford. You must be in a rain shadow somewhere?

Harry Palmr

SnowyMuckish wrote: »

After a busy day pottering around the garden I’m after sitting down wearily on my back doorstep underneath my honeysuckle and in the stillness of the evening I’m watching a murder of noisy crows coming in to roost for the night, as ominous clouds roll in heavily overhead. No need for watering tonight

No rain in the Deise again. thunderstorms pass us completely. Watering by hand is a pain even on a small scale.

looksee

I'd love if Valerian would self seed into the ruined bit of building in front of the house! I suppose if I mixed seed with a bit of soil and rubbed the mix into crevices in the mortar I might get a result? There are a couple of small harts tongue ferns stubbornly growing in more modern concrete patching in one place. Its a potentially charming ruin that needs a bit of attention to improve the look of it.

I am slightly hors de combat at the moment so all my gardening is going on in my head, you wouldn't believe the amazing results! I think an hour with the Chiltern catalogue and a cup of tea is in my immediate future.

macraignil

Dead headed some of the self seeded driveway flower garden and cleared out a lot of the forget me not that has gone to seed. Also planted out some borage which I have not grown before so looking forward to seeing how that turns out over the next few weeks.

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After a busy day pottering around the garden I’m after sitting down wearily on my back doorstep underneath my honeysuckle and in the stillness of the evening I’m watching a murder of noisy crows coming in to roost for the night, as ominous clouds roll in heavily overhead. No need for watering tonight

Harry Palmr

Small 10 minute job which is better done now than later - honeysuckle support frame from some handy poles. That's Crocosmia in behind.

fryup

picked some cherries from my cherry tree before the birds get them..do they ripen off the tree??

[Deleted User]

This weather would break your heart. Today I spent the morning picking up the broken pieces. :mad: :mad: :mad:

whodafunk

Put down stepping stones, created border with decorative brick, new plants down and bark in behind. Getting there! Need to finish off painting the walls.

jellybear

I literally gasped at that transformation. It looks fantastic!! Well done

New Home

:eek:

Shaunoc

Sunday roast

New Home

New Home wrote: »

^^^
Where's the duck now?

:rolleyes:;)

Zak Flaps

RonanC wrote: »

I've knew literally nothing about gardening or lawn care when moving into a new build in 2018. Here is a photo of what our garden looked like in April 2018 (duck included):

I've since learned a huge amount from reading this forum and other lawn care forums with these months in lockdown particularly productive. This is what it looks like now:

I planted all trees and hedging (laurel and transplanted beech) myself apart from the mature Portuguese laurel on the left hand side of the photo, along with levelling the lawn and putting down 80 metres of larch edging. I only did the edging this April; in hindsight I should have done this initially as the lawn was completely taken over last summer by couchgrass and crabgrass invading from the borders. I killed most of it off in April and reseeded - there's some small bare patches but hopefully these will fill in over the coming weeks. Close up:

This forum has been an invaluable resource to me so thanks to everyone who has contributed.

A superb job. Well done.

RonanC

New Home

^^^
Where's the duck now?

looksee

RonanC wrote: »

I've knew literally nothing about gardening or lawn care when moving into a new build in 2018. Here is a photo of what our garden looked like in April 2018 (duck included):

I've since learned a huge amount from reading this forum and other lawn care forums with these months in lockdown particularly productive. This is what it looks like now:

I planted all trees and hedging (laurel and transplanted beech) myself apart from the mature Portuguese laurel on the left hand side of the photo, along with levelling the lawn and putting down 80 metres of larch edging. I only did the edging this April; in hindsight I should have done this initially as the lawn was completely taken over last summer by couchgrass and crabgrass invading from the borders. I killed most of it off in April and reseeded - there's some small bare patches but hopefully these will fill in over the coming weeks. Close up:

This forum has been an invaluable resource to me so thanks to everyone who has contributed.

Duck? Oh yes, duck. Fantastic work, you must be very pleased with it, it looks great.

What did I do in my garden today?I spread 7 bags of bark mulch, which seems to have some sort of dye through it as I now have, in spite of gloves, dark brown fingernails. I got 10 bags of mulch thinking it would do the front area and some to spare, currently looks as though I will be about 6 or 7 bags short just for the front.

RonanC

I've knew literally nothing about gardening or lawn care when moving into a new build in 2018. Here is a photo of what our garden looked like in April 2018 (duck included):

I've since learned a huge amount from reading this forum and other lawn care forums with these months in lockdown particularly productive. This is what it looks like now:

I planted all trees and hedging (laurel and transplanted beech) myself apart from the mature Portuguese laurel on the left hand side of the photo, along with levelling the lawn and putting down 80 metres of larch edging. I only did the edging this April; in hindsight I should have done this initially as the lawn was completely taken over last summer by couchgrass and crabgrass invading from the borders. I killed most of it off in April and reseeded - there's some small bare patches but hopefully these will fill in over the coming weeks. Close up:

This forum has been an invaluable resource to me so thanks to everyone who has contributed.

Muppet Man

Thanks All. Loved the contraception comment

Ya, removed 10 years of Ivy the wall and timber panels and painted it the blocks brilliant white to clean it up and make the Brown timber and shed stand out . Not a lot of wall took a hell of a lot of paint!

Bench is second hand (perfect condition) and was custom made as far as I know. The wife knew someone who was looking to off load it.

Flowers are my wifes doing. There are also solar lights (Aldi) hanging off the concrete posts, which you dont really notice during the day, but light up at night. A little tacky, but nice.

Muppet Man.

New Home

Ah yes, now I see it, thanks.

Mitch Buchannon

New Home wrote: »

What's the white panel behind the shed for?

It looks like they painted the block wall after removing the bush behind the shed.

New Home

What's the white panel behind the shed for?

Zak Flaps

Muppet Man wrote: »

Lockdown boredom + imagination + paint.... happy with that

A fine job. Love the matching shed and dog kennel.
Flowers looks great on the side, as does the bench.

Mitch Buchannon

Muppet Man wrote: »

Lockdown boredom + imagination + paint.... happy with that

Can I ask where you got your Adirondack bench ? It looks great.

Shaunoc

Like a spot the difference competition. Had to recheck few times to find the difference! More coffee