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Post by bjd on Feb 6, 2020 7:43:22 GMT
That's fine if you have a large garden with a jungle section, Casi. Mine is not that big and all open so newspapers on the garden beds would look pretty awful. There is also a huge oak tree just in front of our garden, and the leaves fall in on the flower beds just at the front beside the gate. I left lots while it was cold but they take absolutely forever to disintegrate so last week when it was warm, I raked off quite a lot of them. Don't need any more acidity in the soil here, which is already acid.
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Post by casimira on Feb 6, 2020 16:10:45 GMT
Yes, having a huge space/jungle does support this method to be sure.
I can see how it wouldn't work in a smaller space.
I will say that having the amount of space that I have has become much more difficult to keep up with as the years go by. I just can't physically do all that I used to be able to do and as a result I do have a woman come and give me a hand with the heavy duty stuff. She is a godsend and I really lucked out finding her. She also is good company and has a wicked sense of humor. A big plus.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 6, 2020 16:17:11 GMT
I’m available for a couple of hours on a Tuesday. £15 an hour.
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Post by casimira on Feb 6, 2020 16:35:33 GMT
I'll have the machete sharpened and ready!
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 6, 2020 16:41:51 GMT
Makes a change from the whip you usually use.
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Post by casimira on Feb 6, 2020 18:15:36 GMT
I usually don't pull that out until the second or third session.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 6, 2020 20:56:14 GMT
I usually don't pull that out until the second or third session. Woohoo! Shall I bring my own lawnmower?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 6, 2020 21:30:57 GMT
I usually don't pull that out until the second or third session. Kitten with a wit!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 7, 2020 8:42:01 GMT
Under house arrest because of my backpain...I went onto a plant/seed website and ordered.... Pelargoniums: Lord Bute, Mystery, Dark Secret and p.sidoides Nemesia: Wisley Vanilla Verbena: Lollipop Digitalis: Foxglove x Rose Ivory and Foxglove x Ruby Glow Buddleia: Hot Raspberry Syringa vulgaris: Primrose Lots of prettiest for pots and a couple of little shrubs very happy bunny....
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Post by casimira on Feb 7, 2020 17:27:37 GMT
Lusting over your acquisitions Cheery. Only one of those specimens would thrive here. (the buddleia)
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Post by casimira on Feb 11, 2020 16:59:08 GMT
I’m available for a couple of hours on a Tuesday. £15 an hour. Well...… ?? Typical male gardener behavior... No Show. You're fired!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 11, 2020 17:51:37 GMT
Didn’t you get my text?
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Post by casimira on Feb 12, 2020 16:45:39 GMT
I don't text. Anyway, it was raining Cajuns and Creoles.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 12, 2020 21:02:20 GMT
2 musa basjoo arrived in the post this afternoon. Only young plants, it's really difficult to get banana seeds to germinate here so I ordered 2 baby plants from a nursery in Ireland. They were beautifully packed...hopefully they'll thrive. Going to repot them in a week or so.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 13, 2020 1:18:05 GMT
I was always under the impression that it was difficult to get banana seeds to germinate anywhere.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 13, 2020 15:41:14 GMT
I was always under the impression that it was difficult to get banana seeds to germinate anywhere. uh...not just me then An age ago I managed to get bananas and palms to germinate but managed to kill the plants within a few years. This year I want a tachcarpus fortunei as well as my bananas...going for the big leaves again after a few years of just bedding.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 13, 2020 17:12:57 GMT
I think Musa basjoo is hardy down South.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 13, 2020 17:56:07 GMT
Well, in New Orleans anyway, they are prolific as hell, to the point they have to be hacked back. New plants will grow easily from those hacked pieces. I remember reading in one of those books about how to grow stuff from kitchen scraps that banana plants could be grown from the teeny seeds inside the banana, but I never figured anyone would actually do that.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 13, 2020 17:59:29 GMT
The banana seeds that I had were huge great things....
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 13, 2020 18:02:00 GMT
Interesting! I guess maybe if bananas are not plucked, they eventually turn those itty bitty seeds into huge great things ~ ?
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 13, 2020 18:39:36 GMT
I did mean Southern England btw not deepest Louisiana...
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 13, 2020 21:54:20 GMT
Whoops! Haha ~ yes, I was thinking of "my" south, not yours!
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Post by lagatta on Feb 14, 2020 1:08:19 GMT
As in south of Louisiana or south of Mexico?
I could say I live in southern Québec, but that still gets very nasty winters. But Montréal is actually south of Paris, to say nothing of London or Amsterdam. They get the Gulf Stream.
One of my plants, a kind of mini palm, is dying. It was never strong as I had rescued it along with another plant (green leafy small tree) as a young woman left them out on the sidewalk while she and an older female relative (mother or aunt?) were taking what she was keeping onto the plane to France, in a state of panic. It was a grey, chill, November day.
The larger plant has done well, for one thing it was in a proper pot, while poor palm was planted in a glass container that would have been better for holding utensils or pens (I use it for the latter; there is also a corkscrew in there). Of course I re-potted it, but it has never thrived, though had survived for several years. Now it is leaning over and I think it has root rot (no, I never over-watered it). I'm sad, but will replace it with one of those plants that can practically live in a cupboard. I already have one and will see whether I can divide it, if not I'll buy another. No other of my plants are ill, and very few have been.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 14, 2020 2:55:25 GMT
Louisiana, LaGatta.
I don't know why certain plants fail to thrive. I've had some that don't get sick, don't look bad, but do nothing and re-potting doesn't help. When I finally get sick of them & pull them out, they often have very little root system.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 14, 2020 22:04:42 GMT
I pulled out some of the dead plants from my window boxes yesterday. They had absolutely huge root systems, which I suppose is good, but they made a mess. Anyway, it completely validated my purchase of new potting soil since so much of the old stuff went into the bin.
My current debate is whether to terminate my ficus or not. I had already decided to do it 2 years ago but when spring arrived, it suddenly started thriving, so I spared it. Indoor plants are a bitch.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 16, 2020 12:57:48 GMT
I thought it was funny on the news here about garden shops being authorised to resume their activities. Apparently, they were completely cleaned out by mobs of customers. One of the owners said "I think they might even be planting vegetables in their bathtubs."
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 16, 2020 13:01:28 GMT
Probably water melon.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 16, 2020 16:44:50 GMT
Indoor plants are a bitch. Too true! I really admire people who give the time and effort to have indoor plants, which are demanding and messy. In my youth I used to swoon over those densely colored spreads in magazines & books showing a well-groomed jungle of plants and macrame. I got over it. Lotus.
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Post by bjd on Apr 16, 2020 16:53:11 GMT
I just learned yesterday that the local plant nursery is open. I'm not surprised there are mobs -- it's planting season and people like me, who usually buy plants at the market, have no choice other than nurseries.
This afternoon my neighbour gave me some hollyhock seeds and a couple of little plants. I gave her a couple of small gauras. I think we are both being invaded by our respective plants.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 16, 2020 20:33:08 GMT
I'm gagging to get my young plants in the ground because they're doing so well in the greenhouse and the weather has been glorious.....but I know that it's far too early
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