General Chat

Am very excited as I just planted my first rose bush! It's a bit of a gamble because the wall I want it to climb up, doesn't get much sun. It's called Rosa Compassion and is smelly! Fingers crossed it will flourish. I already have a jasmine and passion flower growing up that wall and I want them to intermingle. Anything special I should do for my rose to help it along! :-D

BC i love walls like that i have a long wall in enclosed back garden, thats unrully ive wisteria that going to flower this year mixed with rushian vine, and fruit trees and and berry trees all mixed up.

its a blooming site :-0 :-0

Lol Puss....what's the betting the Russian Vine will take over! I had one on my patio and it just grew and grew and swallowed everything up! But I like to see a bit of wildness in a garden :-)

yep bet it will BC, my mum planted some and the following spring or2 it was half way round the block, they had to dig down to get it bout.

i planted one out the front 2 yrs ago spring time little leaves appeared, then it just died, i wonder what specky did lol, mil said we would attract ants then it died, she probably breathed on it :-0

Plenty of horse poo B C or chicken poo and a regular feed ,foliar if you can find some ,watered over the leaves and soil every month,it should do very well,and will give the birds somewhere to nest ,Fred :-D

Thanks Fred. *scratches head and wonders where she can get some chicken/horse poo in London? Wellllll you could always send me some, Fred :-D :-D ;-) <3

eeeeeeeer scratches own head ,lol,do you posh London oiks he he know of any ummmmm ,Poundland or Wilkinson's or even B&M's where you can buy these products in a tub ,pelleted?
Sorry and all that but THIS oik hasn't lived in Twickers or Brentford in a coons age ,so i can't help further ,Lol.Fred :-D

*blushes....wellllll Fred I never knew they could come in little boxes, I thought I would have to go with my shovel to Hyde Park and wait for a pooing horse! :-D :-D

for a second at least ,Joking aside ,it's good stuff ,but i don't want the police at my door for sending perfumed gear through the post without a licence,so when you get it ,please do not use on a windy day to avoid breathing dust in ,and wear gloves to prevent ingestion ,both can give rise to illness.or cause you to grow feathers :-).
Been using both around my garden for years ,both veggies [most any anyway] love it and all flowers seem to thrive on it ,apart from lime haters.Fred. :-D

hello fred and ladies xxx BC i could post you some too, our local shop sells birdy poop , its the size of a box of normal sized washing powder , let me know i really dont mind. xxx :-D

if you have roses.......... they love tea! tip the teapot out, even throw used teabags around them :-D

but don't do what a girl I used to work with did...... she asked me to look at her plant....... it stank! She was giving it her left over tea............ from her cup, with milk and sugar :-0 :-( :-(

thanks scozzie, will do that, specky just said we will have the dogs running round with tea bags every where , silly boy i said break them dohhhh men, not our fred tho he is clever.xx :-D

yes broken up tea bags are good and also, as Fred has said dried chicken manure pellets. Ours comes in large drums, not sure if you can get small bags.

:-| I was just going to go out and potter in the garden, beautiful blue sky, sun, pleasant breeze ...and within seconds clouds covered the sky and the rain came down in stair-rods :-P

I did get to notice that something was growing, a few little seedlings dotted here and there and I wondered what I had put in that spot...but, they are sycamores seeded from the trees in the playpark. I hate taking growing things out but they can't stay :-(

How about taking them out and potting them on into small pots then asking around if there is anywhere they can be planted?

Good idea Ann :-D I shall do that and put them on freecycle, someone might like them. I did that with a load of montbretia bulbs and out of date seed packets a few weeks ago and they were snapped up straight away :-D

BC. Chop up some Banana Skins and bury them with or alongside it,or buy some Top Rose and sprinkle around the base.then if dry water in.**M**. :-D

rose we have our back gravelled , i had some cornflowers growing in pots, they have seeded themselfs in the gravel, im creating a wooded affect area so may leave mine in.

I have a weeping willow tree, just tried a few twigs and they have grown roots, was shocked at that, so if anyone at judes meet wants a weepy tree i will bring them, ive bought some follycower seeds to try in a hessian sack i got from pound line. :-D

Geraniums like coffee grounds.

WEEDS - there must be those amongst us who for various reasons have back/knees/getting up problems - wave byebye to these. OH went to Robt Dyxxn for some odds and ends and returned home yesterday with a FISKERS
WEEDER. We had rain yesterday so whilst I am still in bed this morning awaiting assistance to dress I am suddenly confronted with OH carrying a bucket. With his grubby fingers he is showing me the length of the weeds his new gadget has pulled out of lawn!!!

He is delighted - filled half a bucket in about 5 minutes - roots of weeds - some 4-5" long complete with tap roots came out clean as a whistle.

Think they are about £40 but are on offer of £29.95

sounds good chris, i have some nettles that grow around a holly bush i am growing, dosnt matter what i use i get nettled or stabbed.

ive dandelion leaves and plants growing in my polly tunnel, im so sill i hate chucking them knowing some domestic rabbit could be munching on them

well for the first tim,e ive planted some cauliflower seeds and some more sweetcorns did really well a few summers ago with them


caulis ive never done, any tips please

also ive planted fox gloves, it didnt say any thing on the packet but i thought they were poisious ? :-0