Scooby Do
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Post by Scooby Do on Jun 17, 2009 19:12:13 GMT
The only time I'll be bold enough to wander up my garden and do that is after 8 pints down the pub, though. And I can't imagine that'd do it much good.
Piss into a bottle and then pour it on the heap. Piss is full of goodies (for the compost heap, and its sterile at source)
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Post by fizzycola on Jun 17, 2009 22:44:50 GMT
Girls can't pee into a bottle... they miss......
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Post by minge tightly on Jun 18, 2009 9:22:52 GMT
Comphrey is really good as a tomato feed apparently.
Well according to the bird on Gardeners World the other day.
Argh! I'm turning into my Dad!!
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Post by omnipleasant on Jun 18, 2009 9:43:16 GMT
Hahaha. Hahahah!
Welcome to my world Minge.
I've got a bit of a soft spot for that posh hippy bird on Gardeners World actually.
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Post by minge tightly on Jun 18, 2009 14:43:50 GMT
Really? Hmmm but then you do have odd taste I suppose...
It's bloody horrible turning into me Dad though. All those years of pish-taking about gardening and I now find myself doing the same things, developing a habit of 'pottering', watching the weather forecasts for frost and watching Gardeners bloody World!
Worst thing is....I really like all that!
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Post by omnipleasant on Jun 18, 2009 15:23:15 GMT
"All those years of pish-taking about gardening and I now find myself doing the same things, developing a habit of 'pottering', watching the weather forecasts for frost and watching Gardeners bloody World!"
Ha! So feckin familiar.
I particularly like pottering - pacing the garden, snipping something, digging something else, planning, pulling up a weed or two.
I think a lot more people would enjoy it but never get over the "but it's gardening!" hurdle. Once you take the first steps - a few toms or whatever - you realise all the benefits. Relaxation, sense of achievement, physical exercise that has a real tangible point to it, the feeling that you're part of nature (without wanting to sound too new-age) etc etc. It's life-affirming stuff.
As far as the Gardeners World bird goes, I've realised that there are a few "types" that I always seem more attracted to than others - posh birds, redheads, hippies and what our Islingtonite posters would call "chavs".
Alys ticks too many of those boxes not to rate highly..
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Post by minge tightly on Jun 19, 2009 9:48:36 GMT
I think you're right - on the getting over the gardening hurdle. The greatest part of it I find is my new-found wonder at just how much plants want to live. These feckers love life and there's a lesson in that I reckon.
And pottering is great. I find myself just standing and looking at the garden, planning all my next moves, which battles to tackle first (Pests or weeds), ready to snip where needed and simply finding an hour has passed.
In my sluttier days, my 'type' was human female, breathing and willing. Even more so after a few jars.
Now I find tall brunettes with large eyes and full lips do it every time. Thankfully I married a woman like that
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Post by gaia on Jul 10, 2009 9:16:08 GMT
omni, my brother in law is a gardener/groundsman on an estate. He and his wife, who is the housekeeper have tied house with the job (which is handy and means no bills such as rent, council tax, electric etc. He loves his job, loves doing the gardens. He has a huge kitchen garden to tend to, with masses of soft fruit and loads of veg. The is also a walled garden, formal garden and large wooded area. There are also chickens. The pair of them get to help themselves to the veg and fruit, as the estate owners split their time between the UK and France, and would prefer the stuff to not be wasted.
The pay is appalling. Between them, the two of them get about £18,000 a year.
My mum also has a gardener, who is an older chap, spends his days going between the several gardening jobs he has. I have no idea how much mum pays him, but he loves his job, is incredibly knowledgeable on all things gardening, and has got mums garden looking fab. She pretty much leaves him to it and gives him free reign. He turns up on a semi organised basis.
Anyway, my garden is growing really well. I think i need to cut some bits back. My veg are doing well this year. the mange tout are ready and tasting good, the runner beans are coming on, and the spuds are almost there. We finally got a garden bench (which unfolds into a table so is really rather good) and so we've filled the pation with tubs of trailing lobelia and geraniums.
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Post by mango on Jul 10, 2009 15:08:09 GMT
My gardener charges $36 per hour, which doesn't seem too bad until you realise how slow he works, he's Canadian & I love his accent or I'd have ditched him by now, but I only get him to come occasionally to trim the dead fronds off the Cocos Palms (Indian Ocean weeds) & to sort out the unsortables. He came last weekend, for more hours than he ever has before, I think the old t**t is on go slow - he was here all day Saturday, finnicking about with a little pair of secateurs
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Post by yord on Jul 11, 2009 8:43:45 GMT
Does Paul Curran know about this thread
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Post by lala on Aug 5, 2009 8:35:29 GMT
Today I planted peas, carrots, brocolli, cabbage, cauliflower and various forms of lettuce. not much of each, my tactic for this year is a series of geurilla raids, hitting the garden hard and fast in different places, confusing it with apparently random plantings. This new mode forced after the failure of last year's 'Big Push' strategy, which resulted in lots of nothing growing.
Oh, Christ, be time to plant the tomatoes again soon ... still eating chutney and homemade sauce from last year's monstrous crop. Six months of apparently unending tomato fecundity. The horror, the horror.
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Post by jimboky on Aug 9, 2009 20:44:07 GMT
I only managed to plant a few tomatoes this year, the squirrals love them, I'm either going to have to start frying the squirrals of forget the garden I think
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Post by lala on Aug 10, 2009 9:01:40 GMT
You should be grateful for the squirrels. I'd have thanked them if they'd eaten the bloody things. I didn't have space for anything else in the garden because the tomatos had taken over.
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Post by Scooby Do on Jan 21, 2010 21:59:25 GMT
I had new potatoes tonight from my garden.
One had self-set in the compost heap.
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Post by mango on Jan 22, 2010 6:34:26 GMT
I had new potatoes tonight from my garden. One had self-set in the compost heap. I love these bonus plants that spring up from the compost  about 1 month ago I moved the compost box along about a metre & planted my new lemon tree in all the good stuff there's now rockmelons (I think) - self seeded growing around the lemon tree |
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Post by omnipleasant on Feb 4, 2010 12:27:46 GMT
Beds had a gentle winter dig. Spuds are chitting. Bedding plants - bizzy lizzies, begonias, dahlias, sweet peas, tobacco plants etc - and some veg - toms, chillis, cabbage - already sown on the spare room windowsill.
It's all kicking off for the year again. Very exciting.
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Post by Scooby Do on Feb 5, 2010 19:15:20 GMT
My plot had about 4 ton of muck dropped on it this winter. The worms are doing their majic, and taking it down, |
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Post by redanchor1 on Oct 22, 2010 9:49:04 GMT
I bought a new axe last week for my spring 'pruning'. Timber!!!!!!....
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