Moving a large/heavy fig tree out of the greenhouse today, lots of moving stuff about and a little swearing to follow, correct music crucial to the operation, will also move a banana plant out at the same time, I have high hopes that I might actually get this one too fruit so gently does it.
That'll be amazing if you get it to fruit, and quite rare for the UK I thought? Mine are going mad but the wind has not given them a break and they're shredded to buggery sadly.
Having said the above at the end of June, guess what my musa basjoo has been busy doing!
Got myself a few hands of bananas on the way. Literally changing and doing something by the hour at the moment.
Sadly, the main "trunk" will snuff it after it's fruited.
Elsewhere my angel trumpet has been flowering like gangbusters...
But, banana bunches aside, my new obsession is a voodoo lily that only went in as a tuber a month ago but seems to have made itself right at home. On the left...
Moving a large/heavy fig tree out of the greenhouse today, lots of moving stuff about and a little swearing to follow, correct music crucial to the operation, will also move a banana plant out at the same time, I have high hopes that I might actually get this one too fruit so gently does it.
That'll be amazing if you get it to fruit, and quite rare for the UK I thought? Mine are going mad but the wind has not given them a break and they're shredded to buggery sadly.
Having said the above at the end of June, guess what my musa basjoo has been busy doing!
Got myself a few hands of bananas on the way. Literally changing and doing something by the hour at the moment.
Sadly, the main "trunk" will snuff it after it's fruited.
Fantastic, how old is the plant, sweet fa up here in the Midlands.
Moving a large/heavy fig tree out of the greenhouse today, lots of moving stuff about and a little swearing to follow, correct music crucial to the operation, will also move a banana plant out at the same time, I have high hopes that I might actually get this one too fruit so gently does it.
That'll be amazing if you get it to fruit, and quite rare for the UK I thought? Mine are going mad but the wind has not given them a break and they're shredded to buggery sadly.
Having said the above at the end of June, guess what my musa basjoo has been busy doing!
Got myself a few hands of bananas on the way. Literally changing and doing something by the hour at the moment.
Sadly, the main "trunk" will snuff it after it's fruited.
Fantastic, how old is the plant, sweet fa up here in the Midlands.
Was trying to remember myself if it were late summer 2020 or early '21 so 3.5 - 4 years I suppose. I was wondering why it hadn't put out any pups and much fewer leaves this summer, turns out it was putting its energy into fruiting.
Suffered this fungal infection for years now. Back in 2017 this was almost a perfect question mark shape. I've dug out bits and pieces over the years to no avail - apart from it shape shifting.
The surface is absolutely impenetrable to water which is why the grass immediately next to it is dark green - from the run off of water. It has its own unique smell and sometimes sprouts mushrooms.
The picture below shows what is going on below with the white spores.
There is precious little advice about this I can find and I decided to have one more go at it and dig it up. I made up a home made fungicide using bicarbonate of soda, Neem oil and detergent and have watered into the ditch. The chances of it working I rate at less than 50 percent as the spores could just take off again. The chances of me digging out 400 litres of soil again I rate at 0%.
I quite like to see a wild meadow as per this one in Hall place (taken in July), but one month later it looks a bit of a nightmare (to me). You have to work pretty damned hard to get that natural look.
Really pleased with my first year attempt at gardening, roses are very hit and miss as far as some producing flowers others not, dahlias proving to be my weakness, I love them.
A lot of information of slugs with dahlias but not one lost, is that because they are in beds surrounded by stones?
Thanks to all the photos and advice on here, it certainly helps straighten my head out when I’m not in a good place. 🙏
Last year - for the first time ever - I saved tomato seeds from a tomato.
I spread them out on a plastic seed tray and let them dry in a hot shed. They stuck to the seed tray like super glue and I had to scrape them up using a plastic scraper - even then they stuck together, but I put them in an envelope and chucked them in a kitchen drawer.
With my seed supplier (Wilko) gone, I decided to give them a go. I separated them as best I could and stuck 'em in. Unbelievable result
I did that in 2023 with some melons I’d bought in the supermarket. I stuck all the seeds in a bucket and filled it with earth. Then some months later I turned the bucket upside down into I hole I dug in the greenhouse. Haphazard, I know.
Then last year I got loads of pumpkins growing in the place I’d emptied the bucket. They didn’t do too well in the greenhouse.
Just this week, they started growing again. This time I’ve dug them up and put them in pots to transfer ourdoors later.
Some really nice gardens here and I look forward to getting some wise words from the green fingered here. On the 1st of November last year we moved into our new house in France. Now that we’ve finished renovating indoors and the weather is improving we’re slowly trying to get the garden in shape. The previous owner left us a couple of palm and banana trees as well as two rose bushes and an overgrown/exploding raspberry bush. We’ve taken down the old lean-to down and put down some gravel to cover the concrete base and put pots with new flowering plants, we’ve also put in a couple of fig trees, as well as two raised beds for lettuces, Bok Choy, mint and other herbs. I may have overdone it with the tomato seeds, but we may not have enough space ro put all the plants that are coming up into the ground. Also got some
The two raised beds involved shifting 1.1 tons of gravel for drainage as well as 800kg of earth and compost using a shovel and a wheelbarrow. Starting on Tuesday we’re going to start putting up our arbour for some shade. I’ll put up some photos later.
Just the last few winter covers to come off of some really tender stuff now and hopefully things can really start getting going again.
The only thing I still have covered is a sago palm, only as it dropped to 3 last night. They'll come off this week and I'll bring out the red banana and angel trumpet which I've overwintered in an unheated summer house and they're doing fine.
Agree about the rain, I've actually had to water the garden recently, which I don't think I've ever done this side of Easter before.
I'll guess I'm about 200 miles further north than you, as a result my bananas are still under cover and well wrapped up , all are fine but it'll be a couple of weeks before I think those guys will make an appearance.
We gave both our front and rear lawns a good scarifying over the weekend. The front garden is so dry it resembles a desert after removing the thatch. I've over seeded and top dressed both but with no rain forecast for the foreseeable I will have to get the sprinkler out, a bit unusual for this time of year. Neither will ever resemble a sports pitch but doing something to the grass is always better than just leaving it to its own thing. Beautiful weather over the weekend, it won't last indefinitely so it was just nice to get my wife out there doing the bulk of it while I was at football. Hopefully with my wife taking early retirement this summer the garden will look the best it ever has. We have lived in this property for 12 years and done everything from the fences to the driveway. The trees and shrubs we have planted are approaching the heights and spread we wanted so its now just a quick prune round every month. This year we've bought a load of wild flower seed which I'm going to spread in all the boarders, it may look good but also might turn out to be a complete mess We are not really into this trend of growing a wilderness for the insects but we do like a splash of colour and if the insects and birds want to feed on anything we let them. We don't spray any plants to kill bugs, this is more out of laziness but I don't think that's a bad thing. We've been very successful growing Cannas, they just don't die, very easy to grow, we divide them up each year and grow them on to give away. Lovely big leaves and bloom all summer. Yesterday was their day for dividing and repotting. Fresh dirt, plenty of feed, water and a sunny position, they grow huge.
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Got myself a few hands of bananas on the way. Literally changing and doing something by the hour at the moment.
Sadly, the main "trunk" will snuff it after it's fruited.
But, banana bunches aside, my new obsession is a voodoo lily that only went in as a tuber a month ago but seems to have made itself right at home. On the left...
The surface is absolutely impenetrable to water which is why the grass immediately next to it is dark green - from the run off of water. It has its own unique smell and sometimes sprouts mushrooms.
The picture below shows what is going on below with the white spores.
There is precious little advice about this I can find and I decided to have one more go at it and dig it up. I made up a home made fungicide using bicarbonate of soda, Neem oil and detergent and have watered into the ditch. The chances of it working I rate at less than 50 percent as the spores could just take off again. The chances of me digging out 400 litres of soil again I rate at 0%.
One month later.
Then last year I got loads of pumpkins growing in the place I’d emptied the bucket. They didn’t do too well in the greenhouse.
Just this week, they started growing again. This time I’ve dug them up and put them in pots to transfer ourdoors later.
I’m going to take a picture (coming soon below).
The first picture is the new 🎃 plants transferred to pots.
The second is our wisteria starting to bloom, and then some more from the greenhouse.
On the 1st of November last year we moved into our new house in France.
Now that we’ve finished renovating indoors and the weather is improving we’re slowly trying to get the garden in shape.
The previous owner left us a couple of palm and banana trees as well as two rose bushes and an overgrown/exploding raspberry bush.
We’ve taken down the old lean-to down and put down some gravel to cover the concrete base and put pots with new flowering plants, we’ve also put in a couple of fig trees, as well as two raised beds for lettuces, Bok Choy, mint and other herbs.
I may have overdone it with the tomato seeds, but we may not have enough space ro put all the plants that are coming up into the ground. Also got some
Starting on Tuesday we’re going to start putting up our arbour for some shade.
I’ll put up some photos later.
Agree about the rain, I've actually had to water the garden recently, which I don't think I've ever done this side of Easter before.
Beautiful weather over the weekend, it won't last indefinitely so it was just nice to get my wife out there doing the bulk of it while I was at football. Hopefully with my wife taking early retirement this summer the garden will look the best it ever has. We have lived in this property for 12 years and done everything from the fences to the driveway. The trees and shrubs we have planted are approaching the heights and spread we wanted so its now just a quick prune round every month. This year we've bought a load of wild flower seed which I'm going to spread in all the boarders, it may look good but also might turn out to be a complete mess We are not really into this trend of growing a wilderness for the insects but we do like a splash of colour and if the insects and birds want to feed on anything we let them. We don't spray any plants to kill bugs, this is more out of laziness but I don't think that's a bad thing. We've been very successful growing Cannas, they just don't die, very easy to grow, we divide them up each year and grow them on to give away. Lovely big leaves and bloom all summer. Yesterday was their day for dividing and repotting. Fresh dirt, plenty of feed, water and a sunny position, they grow huge.