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arkonite_babe's very useful Gardening Index
MSE update August 2014 Check for any offers, discounts etc on our Home & Garden and Gardening pages. If you have updates to add please PM either arkonite_babe or Pink.. MSE update March 2022 Please note that some of these links are now out of date. Back to the original post... Below is a list of useful links for gardening…
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Todays haul
Todays pickings 😍
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Aldi Garden Special Buys March 2020
I noticed that Aldi are doing a Garden Special Buys event starting on Sunday 1st March. I went instore to check for a leaflet but it wasn’t out yet, but the current leaflet did say the Gardening Special Buy will be online from Sunday 23rd Feb. This is my first year growing veg from seed so I am looking forward to getting a…
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GreenFly - A 'flylady style' gardening thread with weekly tasks to tame your garden
What do we mean by GreenFly? Over on old style there is a long running and supportive community who focus on getting the house clean and tidy in smaller steps. A group of us thought that something similar for taming the garden would be very useful so here it is. The idea is that by doing little and often we can get on top…
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Figs from cuttings
Thought I’d get my experience with rooting fig cuttings in water down for the record and anyone thinking of trying increasing their stock of figs At the beginning of this year I was pruning my figs and idly pondered about trying to strike some cuttings from the prunings Normally with cuttings I use the poke a stick in the…
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Our first ever allotment harvest today
So chuffed! We picked our first harvest today, mange tout, peas and pak Choi
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We won Best Scarecrow at Godalming in bloom ❤️❤️
Yay we won 🤣🤣
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The ups, the downs and the insides out of growing your own in 2024!
Welcome to the new ups and downs of growing your own! Everyone is welcome. Come and tell us about your growing shenanigans What do you like to grow? Are you going to try anything different this year? Did you try anything different last year? Did you like it? Would you grow it again? Do you have any tips for growing? Do you…
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Garden photography
I was going to post something on the awful weather thread but thought for those who don't take part that this would be missed and it's worthy of any keen gardeners or photographers seeing it. We've obviously got to up our game to compete with this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80kve8kr4no I wonder if there are any…
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Garden Work In Progress
In the spirit of Working Mums thread, having actually seen through the eyes of anyone else [ not my own] how bad my ack garden actually looks, this is a thread where I'll be updating as I go along. You don't have to comment if you don't want to but you know when you do a job and then you take after pictures and you always…
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Upcycling is Money-saving: Repurposing unwanted stuff for the garden
Have been waiting for a dry and sunny week-long weather in my area so that I can begin to put up my 'old sofa seat' as an upcycled-trellis for my Clematis. The current and broken trellis of my Clematis was destroyed by strong winds in early Winter (that was made from quality wood, the old frames of an old shed, which…
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Freda has had her Halloween makeover on the allotment
All ready for spooky season 🤣🤣🕷️🕸️
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Aphid damage on Buddleja - For RHS
I have just come across this article from the RHS https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/aphids-on-buddleja You can read all about it on RHS page, but in summary Buddleja leaves affected by aphids show unusual puckering and discolouration, caused by aphids feeding on the undersides of the leaves. Over time, the damage curls…
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The ups, the downs and the insides out of growing your own in 2025!
Welcome to the new ups and downs of growing your own! Everyone is welcome. Come and tell us about your growing shenanigans What do you like to grow? Are you going to try anything different this year? Did you try anything different last year? Did you like it? Would you grow it again? Do you have any tips for growing? Do you…
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2023 - the good, the not so good but hopefully not ugly of growing your own!
Welcome to the new good and not so good of growing your own! Everyone is welcome. Come and tell us about your growing shenanigans What do you like to grow? Are you going to try anything different this year? Did you try anything different last year? Did you like it? Would you grow it again? Do you have any tips for growing?…
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Quince "de Vranja" - less pectin!
I'm aware that most of you probably aren't growing tree quinces, but there are probably others Out There on t'Interwebulator looking for answers on this... We have a tiny "Food Forest" in our front garden, which consists of an Egremont Russet apple, two hazel nut trees, redcurrants, rhubarb, a Jostaberry and two "de…
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What is this bird?
This bird has just made a visit to my garden - anyone know what it is? I'm useless at identifying birds and I can't decide if it's any of the birds of prey shown on the RSPB website as they all look slightly different (to me)! All I do know is that it's not any of the two types of common birds in my garden, being wood…
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Amazing Seed offer - How to series from Kitchen Garden Magazine
15 packets of free seeds with this issue - bundle costs £9.99 - worth £30 Copies are available at all leading supermarket, WHS HS and from the publishers at classicmagazines How to... Grow your own produce - month by month guide A guide to all the essential tasks to do on your veg patch or in your greenhouse throughout the…
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The even bigger and better and hopefully not lower bits of growing your own in 2022!
Welcome to the new ups and downs of growing your own! Everyone is welcome. Come and tell us about your growing shenanigans What do you like to grow? Are you going to try anything different this year? Did you try anything different last year? Did you like it? Would you grow it again? Do you have any tips for growing? Do you…
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Iceland poppies
4 years ago I planted some Iceland poppies (F1 so I know they don't seed true), the plants don't live long but I was happy to let them seed themselves and they have produced various little twists since then but the third one is definitely furthest away from the originals (the original plants which are all dead now came…
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Greenhouse tip .
With this stormy weather it made me remember how to stop your pane's of glass being broken . They usually slip downwards and it is the fall that breaks them . So when assembling put in extra z brackets at the bottom of each pane . They give you enough for two each but buy extra and put in four . Also assemble more clips up…
