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Not quite finished but definitely an improvement, if I do say so myself.
You're even taller than I realised.
You've put a Haxball stadium in your backyard.
That’s my old school in the backgroundOriginally Posted by Alan Shearer The 2nd
I don't understand artificial turf unless you were wanting to make a putting or chipping area for golf. If you want low maintenance then go with slabs or stones.
That being said I'm probably the only green-fingered person on here I suspect. Definitely more into the plants than the landscaping. Got into gardening in 2017 and have done quite a bit of planting/potting round the back since then. Top photo was from the home brochure when I bought the house, forgot how sparse it was-
Spent the morning in the garden. Cut the grass and applied iron sulphate. It’s too warm really, but that’s what happens when your wife employs a rubbish gardener and I’m brought out of retirement to fix it.
Also covered the patio and drive in Gallup to try and get a handle on the weeds. Me and my dad are gonna regrout the patio soon, so good to get some weed killer down the cracks before cementing it shut.
My wife planted some chives a while ago and I bloody love it when the strimmer catches them and the whole garden smells like spring onions for a bit.
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Someone needs to apply a good chemical compound to kill you
I don’t know if you get it there but Roundup Biactive is the tits for weeds.
lol, as someone who worked in corporate comms for the company that made Roundup. I would avoid Roundup.
It’s what works though. I protect myself well when using it and don’t use it near the well.
Nothing else kills stuff as quick or as well.
Think that was the most depressing part of that job. They’d send us a list of all the lawsuits involved and Cplumn A was what we’d spent on Lawyers. column b was how much more we’d be willing to spend on lawyers. And Column C was how much the plaintiffs were asking for. And it was always like a small percentage of A+B. So depressing.
Ah yeah, as long as your hideous physical form is yet again just about sustained to maintain a pulse over all other costs, that's all that matters. Roundup all-round.
Oh shut up you flange.
Every bee I kill I like to pretend is Taz.
Why are you killing Bees? Wasps, fair enough, but bees? Bad form. Our garden is doing well now, spent too much money on plants (despite buying bargain plants, that has just resulted in buying more). However the local birds think the red berry suet I put in the feeders is crack cocaine and act accordingly, nailing a whole cake in a day.
I was trying to grow a wall of conifers at the adjoining fence to our drive out the front to avoid having to talk to the neighbours but a few of them have died off, inexplicably as the others are fine.
I’m not really killing bees, not deliberately anyway as I’m only spraying low weeds and grasses. What bees I’ll have helped with the wild flower patch I put in especially for them will vastly outweigh any killed.
Anyway, don’t think for a second that suicide bomber cunt actually gives a fuck about nature. He just wants to something something gammons.
Woah there, we got an extinction rebellion badass here, planting wild flower patches to help the bees.
I planted some bee bombs but they were wank and non flowering plants so I ripped the fuckers out. Saw some comedy prices on dahlias at the garden centre on friday, £15 per plant. Did have a nice purple lot and some oranges, will wait until next spring and get them off the old fella down the farm for £2 each.
We have a "bug hotel" and a "Hedgehog House" in our garden.
I have a bat house built into the top of the gable end in my house complete with a batman logo.We have a "bug hotel" and a "Hedgehog House" in our garden.
This is how we get the Zeta variant.
Did a little bark border over the last few days. I wouldn't be hiring me to lay your setts/cobbles any time soon but it wasn't a disaster given I've never done it before. The first picture is the kitchen thing I showed before, second a mini greenhouse and the third is a pallet thing the girl wants to make into a herb garden, IDK.
Have a morello cherry tree on the way which we are going to train onto the wall.
Also my yuzu tree has some yuzus! And I haven't killed it yet!
Still not dead.
Done my garden jobs today while WFH (hi Giggles) so I can spend tomorrow sunbathing in the paddling pool.
Lawn cut and iron sulfphate applied and the moss is already black and dying.
Also put some of this on my drive cos I found it in the shed. Probably not as good as Gallup, but the weeds aren't too bad yet.
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I scarified last week. Like you said it's a bit shit having a bald lawn now the sun is blazing but I've overseeded with A1 Lawn Seed, which is top stuff. Should be looking like the Emirates by mid-June.
If it makes you feel better I correctly patch treated my lawn at the 'right' time of year and it didn't work due to the ridiculously late frosts in the north west
Spent a good hour last night heavily watering the front and back lawn after the weather forecast ASSURED me it'll be hot and dry for at least the next 7-10 days. Woke up this morning to biblical rain which is now forecast to continue right through the day. Great.
On a brighter note, bought myself a cylinder mower a couple of months ago. Wow, what a machine. Mowing every 2-3 days and it's putting Wimbledon to shame (before this morning anyway).
Anyone else having problems with Selfheal this year? Never had it before but the neighbours have been overwhelmed by it this summer. I managed to fend it off up until now but it looks like a few seeds have blown over and rooted on the front now. A big scarify should fix it but we're only 4 weeks away from renovation time, so don't know what to do, other than keeping it at bay with regular mowing.
Not here but spotted some ‘horsetail weed’ creeping under from next door’s fence and it seems to have made its way onto the opposite side of my lawn. Apparently once you’ve got that, you’ve always got that, so I’m just mowing whenever I can to keep it at bay.
And similar, I was chuffed to empty the paddling pool out last night thinking it was good to water the grass, only to be woken up at 3am by my hysterical daughter, scared that the world was ending cos the thunder and heavy rain. At least the grass is well fed, and it’s sunny again today, so the perfect way to do it really.
Unrelated to my lawn but still in the garden, my shed roof has lost some of its felt. I’ve bought some and strategically placed it next to the back door ready for when my dad feeds the cat while I’m in Norwich next week. Hopefully I come home to a new shed roof…
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Must have slept through the thunder, my phone correctly warned me about rain so I never bothered watering. Wife strimmed my rare fuschia to death though
Horsetail is a right bastard. Had it at my old house. I think by the time we moved I had finally eradicated it, through a combination of digging out any I see (which weakens the next growth), regular mowing (which it really doesn't like because it's slow growing) and giving it a lot of competition (ie. if it's in your lawn, get your grass as healthy and fast growing as you can).
Any of the marketed "horsetail killers" are useless because unless you're prepared to nuke your entire garden with glyphosate, they won't touch it. Even then, it's been known to survive glyphosate too.
I think I have some of those selfheal flowers out front. Zero fucks given. I cut the old guy next doors bit of grass out front when I do mine and I've always feared he might be a Ben style lawnatic, but thankfully he isn't.
Might turf my next place as the garden will probably need to be completely redone and then document how long it takes to be overrun with moss/weeds.
Seeding > turfing
Having done both, turf is more expensive but a lot less work.
I suppose it's down to how much you enjoy it. I'm counting down the days until I can do the autumn overseeding.
I've got a very small lawn and I fucking hate it. It's full of weeds. I don't know how anyone can be arsed.
I'm tempted to just get it paved but I'm a bit worried about drainage as it's higher up than the house and slopes towards it.
I overseed regularly too, but for a brand new lawn, I'd go with good quality turf, personally.
Anyone else suffering a sudden bout of slugmageddon? There must be hundreds of the little, well, actually quite big, fuckers on my front lawn at the moment. I've never seen anything like it. I assume nothing dares eat the bastards as they're bold as brass. Does the rain trigger them?
Yes it's the rain, they are everywhere as soon as it rains here. Make sure to get pellets around anything vulnerable you don't want demolished. Thankfully they don't bother with my beloved fuschia collection.
I wish they'd eat the weeds on my driveway.
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