Any advice or tips on how to prevent or deal with dog peeing on the lawn ultimately creating those yellow nitrogen rich patches ? I’ve tried soaking those areas when they pop up to dilute the nitrogen and even tried a volcanic rock in the dogs drinking water but it’s a losing battle. Any help appreciated.
Artificial grass is the answer. Means you save time with mowing etc.
Do you want some Charlton beer mats @ricky_otto ? I've still got a few hanging around from the protests, some Roland's Ruin and a couple of others. They are hopeless as beer mats but might look good. Send me your address if so. Will post but wont be until next week.
no idea what it is, Oli (son) thinks it's a baby croc! - haha
Definitely a Newt. Had them as pets as a kid. Would go over to this park that always had them swimming in there, would nick them and put them in our fish tank at home. They lived off the fish food.
Do you want some Charlton beer mats @ricky_otto ? I've still got a few hanging around from the protests, some Roland's Ruin and a couple of others. They are hopeless as beer mats but might look good. Send me your address if so. Will post but wont be until next week.
Looks like you’ve got a wood burning stove in - lovely.
Sure have & it gets nice and warm on a cold night, it was always my intention to build one & lockdown last year was the time to do it. Was going to build it with London Stocks, well frontage, but costs were far too much so used locally reclaimed bricks instead. As we, main house, are south facing the pub gets the sun as it sets in the West 😁😁 now need to build the pizza oven and Bar B Q next to it.
Hi lolwray ,of the 12 bananas I have 6 are shooting so far, I'm in the process of repotting the larger plants at the moment, I left 4 in the ground over winter and they haven't started shooting but I think they will (hopefully), I treating them the same as my potted cannas and they come back every year.
Came down this morning to find something had trashed part of the lavender bed. Think it must be a badger. Recently covered the bed in horse manure still containing quite a few brandlings.
I just wish the weather would do something...its still too cold for most things to really come on and still getting overnight frosts ....really haven't had a lot of rain and I am using pumped water from a well ...I dont normally resort to this until june ..
Trying out Minibel tomatoes for the first time this year.
I have ten growing here in the top secret nursery area behind my shed. Apparently they only grow to 30 cm - seem to be developing nicely, plenty of blooms appearing.
Please excuse the rather ugly anti fox / cat fortifications.
Last year I noticed a rather unusual pattern in one of my geraniums
So I took a cutting from that area in the hope I could invent a new plant - thinking this time next year I could become a millionaire.
The cutting has survived and is about to bloom. How should I spend my money? Give up my seat in the East stand and sit next to 'Sandy' in the directors box for a start eh?
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To think it was only a twig 5 years ago. I looked after it, fed it, spoke to it and now this ...
Gardening does that though, just when you think you're winning it dumps you back down on the seat of your pants.
I have ten growing here in the top secret nursery area behind my shed. Apparently they only grow to 30 cm - seem to be developing nicely, plenty of blooms appearing.
Please excuse the rather ugly anti fox / cat fortifications.
So I took a cutting from that area in the hope I could invent a new plant - thinking this time next year I could become a millionaire.
The cutting has survived and is about to bloom. How should I spend my money? Give up my seat in the East stand and sit next to 'Sandy' in the directors box for a start eh?
Time will tell Rodders, time will tell.