General Chat

Joy....how I laughed, I had this vision of an army of snails, climbing SAS style over your fence......seriously though they hate grit, and egg shells crushed up round hostas and the like....when all else fails I use slug/snail pellets as well. I buy ones that are not harmful to birds and animals....and its chucking down here as well....did get in the garden yesterday....

Haven't tried Chartennay....but will another time.....also will use this year Autumn King which you can harvest till end November. If you have probs with misshaped carrots, use bags of compost from the garden centre (B&Q have offers on at present...and a trough, the soil is soft and the carrot can get thru.

I have to admit we did not wait till they got big, just scrapped soil from the tops, and if they looked nice, pulled them up...the smaller ones are delish.

This mad weather, has meant I have the best Hellebores I have had, especially my newest Golden Lotus, which now has 6 flowers between two plants.

OH going to Argos to get willow obelsisks tomorrow..will let you know what they are like....19.99 for two that are about 4 ft high.
Will let you know if the daffs bloom

Regards Jan

hi greenfingers, good luck with the obelisk ive got some climbers on mine, thanks for the tip of the soil, i wondered about it being the soil xx.

wend, poor you i will send you a card next year with a slug on to remind you.

Ann its a nice day here again, we had a few rain drops but thats all today x x x :-D

Nice here at the moment Puss but a very cold wind.

Jan our Helebores are looking better now, flowering well, must have been a late start.

Our hostas are mostly in a gravel bed but that doesn't stop them being eaten, some years are better than others, with us I think it is snails not slugs. Maybe i should do as the French and get my own back.

my heleborers were in pots ann do think thats why they died and lost a hosta too xx

well we had snow this afternoon
mind uncle E tipped me off it was coming

and i still put the pellets down
theres more hyacynths opening today pinks blues and yellow

Glad to be of assistance......Jan

the sun was shinning again today
so cleaned the windows (**faints**)and had a quick tidy of the front garden
the boarders are well on the way to been bright and cheerful now
i am so pleased

hello gardeners my new trees are beginning to have new shoots on them, the older ones are getting ready to blossom, and my climbers are looking good, even my wisteria has come back i know a lot of people have a problem growing them, hope that flowers at its by patio door so the scent may come in :-D

Puss Hostas should be fine in pots, if it has just disappeared over the winter you have not necessarily lost it. They all disappear until you see little shoots growing in Spring. Helebores should be OK in pots if the pots are large enough.


Joy, my windows need cleaning if youa re down this way.

Thanks Ann iim eep them seperate , think i got carried away when we had those warm days, hope i can play in my garden tomorrow it has that ease of calmless . xx :-D

Yet again I've cut my fingers to bits trying to clean the glass in the greenhouse, has anyone got any suggestions how I can do this job without drawing blood.
:-) :-) :-)

If any one wants two willow obelisks for 19.99 then look in the Argos catalogue, that's where we got ours, about 4ft high...they are very well made, used one this morning to prop up a self seeded honeysuckle....looks good Jan

lesley there are some gardeners gloves that arnt so bulky that should save you from being cut poor thing bet there sore, stickem in a pot of salt lol only joking :-D xxx

greenfingers glad they were ok, you said you wernt sure what they were going to be like, i got some metal ones last year or the year befor, they really needed hammering in to the ground though slightest bit of wind :-0

at the weekend i am going to buy my compost for my hanging pots
i managed to buy baby satan some tiny gardening gloves
as he loves the gardening

but not having dirty hands so they are ideal
i always have my garden ready by easter every year
its sort of my target anything after thats a bonus

Puss and Daughter, anchored ours with wire hooked pegs that are used to anchor wire fencing, we had some left over , from another job> Certainly would not leave them un-tethered !!!!!!

I get cut when I try to get between the overlapping panes of glass it's so fiddly so I take my gloves off, I've just watched a short video on BBC greenhouse maintenace and that didn't help.

Jan I'm going to give Autumn King a try.

Lesley ouch!!

The obelisks sound good Jan, we have wrought iron ones which we have geraniums (pelargoniums not hardy) that climb up them. They are in pots so brought inside in the winter.

green f good i dea, oh now uses his head and has even strapped the walk in polytunnel, well ive def got carott seedlings and something else but cant remember whats in that tray , really pleased myself id got some labels, so ive only forgot one, its chucking it down outside so that will be great for my new trees, i had some very thick twigs that were thick enuf to edge my path that son did for me, it will go round the garden with the fruit trees going either side.

i did promise oh it would just be a orchard but every time i go to the shop bulbs and seeds of some sort fall in my tro;;y :-D

What a week for wind and wet .....so dark this morning, will be one of those days when you need the lights on all the time...........depressing..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its been lovely and sunny here in shrops,but its wet today, just think it will fill our butts up :-0lol