Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Rummer

Oh me too please Dave

moneyistooshorttomention

Daft question of the Day time...umm...probably...but I've been able to get out in the garden and get on with it a bit at last and the question is:

- when I uproot weeds of various descriptions (eg wintercress?, rough grass, etc) is it beneficial/doesn't make any difference either way/I need to remove them?

I'm guessing that I could just leave them lying there on the soil and they wouldn't be able to propagate themselves (as I will have uprooted them) but, on the other hand, would be useful as living mulch.

Am I right on that?

Davesnave

Hairy bittercress and annual meadow grass are already setting seed here. I tend to burn them when they get to that stage, rather than leave around.Same with shepherd's purse and a whole host of other wild flowers I'm 'blessed' with.

I'll have to clear out my in-box a bit tonight, then I'll see what I can dig out in the photo line.....:)

moneyistooshorttomention

Hairy bittercress = that's the name I was looking for and had forgotten. I did try the "If you cant beat it...eat it" school of thought, as its edible.

Well...I didn't like it...darn...as I was hoping for a bit of free food there:(:(

So sweet rocket, endive and sorrel (rumex acetosa) planted up as fair size "ready plants" and various vegetable plug plants and some potatoes planted up so far. Bit cheat's version of growing to start with, whilst I'm minus any sort of greenhouse type set-up I think would work here with the level of wind (further thought on that point will be due later).

Wonders if I'm still correct time of year to get some fruit trees or will have to wait now for some months?...

I_have_spoken

Inching forwards with the garden...filled two 'hippo' bags with spoil from digging the French drains. I guess that's 600kg of mud

Man arrived last night with 300kg of topsoil - which I reckon won't be enough for the entire garden but I can get the really "wet" side done by adding 240L of supermarket compost.

More encouragingly the 'offer' 1p perennial plug-plants I bought last year and potted-up are showing signs of life in the coldframe. Shame I can't remember what they are...

Now to get the rest of the bare-root perennials potted up and growing before deciding where they will go.

Davesnave

They're still selling root balled fruit trees at the farmers' supplies place here, money, and potted plants will be around for a while yet, but I'd be getting anything else in asap now.

Don't I know it! The hornbeams I've been planting this afternoon are just about breaking bud, and the birches that went in a week ago are leafing up. Another couple of days should see all our tree nursery planted out and the way clear to make the caravan hard-standing.

I've also got 20 of the 28 potted cotoneasters in place too......but I'm now very fed up with planting trees!

lostinrates

I've done a damage inspection today.

Funny, we've not lost a tree in the cold winters, but this one might have been too much for the foxglove tree. It seems some how.....rotten and hollow at the top. . Base is green, but top definitely 'wrong'. . I have four fruit trees to go in. I can do two myself, two I don't know where I want them so I'll be potting them up.

Rummer

Davesnave wrote: »

I'll have to clear out my in-box a bit tonight, then I'll see what I can dig out in the photo line.....:)

I just tried to PM you then read this :rotfl:

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I've done a damage inspection today.

Funny, we've not lost a tree in the cold winters, but this one might have been too much for the foxglove tree. .

I know of a foxglove tree, 40' tall, at 500' on the Mendips.

It might be a bit early to assess damage. I'm not expecting my apples to come through unscathed, but we won't know until July, at the earliest.

EDIT: I think 60' might be an exaggeration, so I've changed that, but it is very big!

Davesnave

Rummer wrote: »

I just tried to PM you then read this :rotfl:

I have cleared some space now....sorry! :mad: