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RosaBernicia

doingitanyway wrote: »

I think you should write a gardening book based on the flylady principles. i would read it. I would buy it! You can call it Greenfly

Brilliant

RosaBernicia

redofromstart wrote: »

I am rubbish at watering pots so:
1. Always add some of the water retaining gel
2. Stand the pot where it gets some shade if you can - then it doesn't dry out as much
3. Plant things that aren't thirsty! The more robust end of the spectrum, lavenders for example like to be dry and sunny. Twiggy things work better than juicy snappable stems.
4. Top coat with bark or gravel so the soil isn't exposed
5. Keep a pop bottle of water hidden way close by, so you are not having to go back. If its a stop for 30 seconds then I will do it, but I have to go round the back to get a watering can then it will never happen. I keep the bottle in the front porch.
6. Choose a nice thick big pot, lots of soil for more water, and the thickness will protect the soil a little. My thin stainless steel ones are a nightmare for this so I only plant ivy in them.

See, I can do this

Absolutely, you are doing it already

Hopefully clearing some of front garden over the next week so pots can be considered afterwards. Just remembered there is a garden centre very near work too, may be able to wander over at lunchtimes.


Rosa xx

HairyHandofDartmoor

Your thai green curry sound delicious, but I would have to substitute quorn chunks or similar.

I struggle with an overgrown garden and mine is the size of a handkerchief :rotfl:. The trouble is I have a fuscia hedge which is lovely but grows about a foot a week in the summer, putting all the other plants in shade. By the time I've pruned the hedge with our hand shears I'm too tired to do anything else.

I like pots because the plants stay small but I'm lucky enough to have an outside tap with a hose attached which can reach ALL of the pots.

Your garden sounds lovely Redo, you can be really ambitious with it

greenbee

If you don't want to start with a book, start a blog Between us we can supply pictures of neglect and chaos...

redofromstart

Lots to think about - thanks everyone. I love playing in the garden, I know what needs doing, and mostly I know what I need to do. I just need the energy to do it, and a plan. I don't enjoy delegating either before anyone suggests it.

The back garden is roughly 30m x 30m and the front is 5m x 30m. It's all overgrown and neglected. Monster shrubs, nettles, brambles.

The fish worked well in the curry, last bag of value white fish used up. I pan cooked it from frozen, then added the paste etc.

This afternoon I mostly sat down, and did:
1. Payment of corporation tax, business savings now emptied and a little retained profit left in the main account
2. Found the paperwork to swap the boys CTFs to junior ISAs
3. Found my missing tax stuff - and then realised it is online anyway
4. Sorted OH current pension payments

greenbee

Sounds like a productive day

You probably need to learn to delegate (I'm not good at that in the garden either... it feels easier to do it myself!)

moneyonmymindsam

greenbee wrote: »

If you don't want to start with a book, start a blog Between us we can supply pictures of neglect and chaos...

I do have a lovely bed of nettles ready for the blog :j

redofromstart

moneyonmymindsam wrote: »

I do have a lovely bed of nettles ready for the blog :j

only one? Lightweight

Seasidegal58

redofromstart wrote: »

only one? Lightweight

:rotfl::rotfl:

redofromstart

I'll take this down later but this is an example of what I am dealing with. This is from the veg plot, looking over the middle wall towards the main lawn and borders. Brambles, nettles, and some david austin climbing roses that I heeled in a few years ago that now run for a good six foot each of out of control spiky things. Most of the back is like this. Good for bramble jelly without leaving home I suppose.



We have had rain and hailstones, far too cold to be outside although stray cat assures me it is lovely in the greenhouse.

Sausages and mash kind of weather I think. That said i was just distracted by a tapping on the window, and it was a clearly confused big fat bee.