The Potting Shed - come on in, the kettle's on!

savemoney

I need a cup of tea had to lift a large bush out of ground, backs aching a bit due to bad back

Want to make space for new plants

annie123

I need to go AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Next doors cats have turfed up every single carrot and spring onion I've planted because they wanted to bury their poo :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: they were doing so well, would have been eating first thinnings in a week or so.

:mad:It's horrible finding cat tu*ds amongst my food :eek::mad:

I have used gel stuff around my tatties but it gets very expensive, and doesn't last long, so my tatties in the ground are now growing under chicken wire.
Cant cover my whole garden in it, would be expensive and look ugly:(
They only started doing it last year, even though they have been next door for 5 years.

And the sun has gone again:(, gray clouds/rain coming:( and I need something stronger than a cuppa, but it's only 2ish so off for some tea, clear out all the soil in the stone sink and redo soil/sand mix again as I have heavy clay here and get great but totally useless shaped carrots in the ground and sow some more.

And relax.......

boultdj

Been cleaning more pot's out ready to pot on chillie's,pepper's,parsley + courgett's which are outside at the moment,can't wait till I can leave them out all the time cause then I can have my kitchen window back.

Optimisticpair

Confession time - I have a new toy to play with. A blue plastic and black metal wheelbarrow which cost £39.

Finished digging out brambles apart from one under huge rocks in a bed.

OH has gone back to hacking at a tree stump he is determined to get out so I had better get back to my digging.

Jacey53

annie123 wrote: »

I need to go AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Next doors cats have turfed up every single carrot and spring onion I've planted because they wanted to bury their poo :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: they were doing so well, would have been eating first thinnings in a week or so.

:mad:It's horrible finding cat tu*ds amongst my food :eek::mad:

I agree. I have two cats and they have a litter tray indoors and a patch of earth that i keep dug over for them (and i clean it up every now and then) My neighbours' cats started using my beds so i "planted" sharp sticks (shrub cuttings) in with my seeds and small plants. Looks odd but they don't squat if they are going to get a poke in the bum. My neighbours have only hard landscaping so where are the cats supposed to go - daft really.

Jacey53

ps - I even put sticks in pots as when I first got them, my mogs thought they were the outside equivalent of the litter tray.

Jace

Dustykitten

Jacey53 wrote: »

ps - I even put sticks in pots as when I first got them, my mogs thought they were the outside equivalent of the litter tray.

Jace

I do this too. I love my 3 cats but not in the flower beds!

Actually the youngest is driving me senseless with catching birds at the moment. He is on the lawn with his third in 3 days. Yesterdays we managed to save. We managed to get it off him in the house and it started to fly about:eek: DS3 started to scream. DS1 caught it and after and hour in a box calming down we took it outside and it did fly right away.

I've been sorting out what is the new fruit border where the trellis was. Just need to check how best to plant a blackcurrent. I need to move one of the gooseberries (it is still very young) but I'm not sure if it's a bit late in the season now.

Primrose

Dusty Kitten - yes it is a little late to move your gooseberry plant as I imagine it's now in full leaf and might even have tiny fruits appearing. The only way you could possibly get away with it is to water really well for a few days so that the earth ball around the roots clings to them very solidly, dig it out well away from the roots and move the whole earth ball keeping it intact as possible. Dig out the new location well before hand so the roots are exposed for as little time as possible and water regularly for several weeks. If possible move it late in the day after the sun has gone down so that it's less liable to wilt in the hot sunshine.

Jack's_mummy

I did the sticks in pots thing last year. About 10 cms apart and the little sh*** still manage to squat between the sticks and poo! I was not a happy bunny that day.

stilernin

The local garden centre has veg seedlings priced at £3.49! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I thought that was shocking for 9 cabbages or 9 lettuces....... but for a strip of 18 radish seedlings !!! They were far too close together to grow to maturity and I wouldn't want to try transplanting them.

I understand all about overheads etc, but surely this is taking advantage of the 'grow your own' craze and even bordering on racketeering. Also, won't new gardeners be put off, never to return, when they fail with these expensive plants?