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Post by Honolulu on Mar 26, 2020 20:54:39 GMT
I recently joined a Facebook group for home gardening and such. Then I was thinking if there posters here using this time in social distancing to tend to their gatden? I have no plants as of yet, but I will!
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 26, 2020 21:00:41 GMT
Stuff is just breaking through the ground. I used to do more, but my medical conditions prohibit me from spending more time there. It's all perennials now. God bless cedar mulch!
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Post by Ass_E9 on Mar 26, 2020 21:06:54 GMT
It was pre-social distancing, but I did buy DIY kits and planted lavendar and a herb garden.
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Mar 26, 2020 23:23:06 GMT
I turned my front yard into mostly a perennial garden. Did it over the course of 10 years. I started closest to my house and every year took out 3 or 4 feet of grass and put various rows or clusters of different perennials and small shrubs. A few ornamental pines, a couple Japanese maples, a larger ornamental tree that turned out to be a crabapple tree. Or moved stuff around and made slight tiers out of simple retaining wall blocks from Lowes.
I suppose if I did the whole thing in one shot, the whole layout might be more creative. But I had to make it look presentable each year. Pretty much the flowering stuff is staggered so there is always something blooming. I have things that will bloom in late May, then when they are done others will bloom in mid-June, then some other things that bloom in late-July, then some in late August which can last through the entire fall. And at the latest, I have an ornamental grass that stops growing in September then blooms in mid-October. Last fall I was thinking it wasn't going to bloom at all - then the flower parts opened up about a week before it snowed. Those look cool when covered in snow and frozen.
Interested to see what is going to come up this year. Last fall I got some nice sale items at the end of the year, and relocated some existing things to make room. I was planning on a few spots needing a couple new spring additions. A simple $50 trip to the nursery for 3 or 4 new things. Not looking like that is going to happen though.
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Post by Honolulu on Mar 27, 2020 14:00:51 GMT
I'm a gardener. Actually I am. My brother is a horticulture major and we once ran our own landscaping business. 👎
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Post by sadsaak on Mar 27, 2020 19:26:55 GMT
I recently joined a Facebook group for home gardening and such. Then I was thinking if there posters here using this time in social distancing to tend to their gatden? I have no plants as of yet, but I will! I have just taken on a new allotment which is 300 square yards or about 240 square metres. It is in a hell of a state and being old, overweight and not particularly fond of hard work at the best of times, I am not much better. So the plan is to very slowly lick it into shape and to make it easier to maintain as I go along. So far I have dug out a 20 square yard patch for my first earlies and planted a black currant bush. Later on I will dig beds for the second and maincrop potatoes, add raspberry canes and a deckchair where I will sit and do nothing slowly.
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Post by Honolulu on Mar 27, 2020 20:38:57 GMT
I recently joined a Facebook group for home gardening and such. Then I was thinking if there posters here using this time in social distancing to tend to their gatden? I have no plants as of yet, but I will! I have just taken on a new allotment which is 300 square yards or about 240 square metres. It is in a hell of a state and being old, overweight and not particularly fond of hard work at the best of times, I am not much better. So the plan is to very slowly lick it into shape and to make it easier to maintain as I go along. So far I have dug out a 20 square yard patch for my first earlies and planted a black currant bush. Later on I will dig beds for the second and maincrop potatoes, add raspberry canes and a deckchair where I will sit and do nothing slowly. Sounds like a lot of hard work and creativity. Would you share a snap shot of your garden once you are done?
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Post by Stammerhead on Mar 27, 2020 20:52:48 GMT
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Post by sadsaak on Mar 27, 2020 22:12:56 GMT
I have just taken on a new allotment which is 300 square yards or about 240 square metres. It is in a hell of a state and being old, overweight and not particularly fond of hard work at the best of times, I am not much better. So the plan is to very slowly lick it into shape and to make it easier to maintain as I go along. So far I have dug out a 20 square yard patch for my first earlies and planted a black currant bush. Later on I will dig beds for the second and maincrop potatoes, add raspberry canes and a deckchair where I will sit and do nothing slowly. Sounds like a lot of hard work and creativity. Would you share a snap shot of your garden once you are done? I would be delighted Honolulu but it will be a long time. I am not in a rush and want to make it as low maintenance as possible, which is why I am starting with spuds. I won't have to do much weeding because the potatoes will be dug up within three to five months anyway. And I will add apple, pear, plum, cherry and cobnut trees, none of which require much more than a bucket or two of compost a year and some easy pruning. And soft fruit such as raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries and strawberries are no harder. I love gardening but don't intend to put myself out. What are your plants?
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Post by sadsaak on Mar 30, 2020 11:06:23 GMT
I was at the allotment yesterday and Hon Sec was being her usual pain in the arse about this bug that is doing the rounds. She had shut the allotment shop, banned bonfires and wanted us to wash our hands and no end of other goody goody crap. So we explained that what with heart attacks, triple bypasses, tin knees, cancer treatment, alcoholism and terminal old age, most of us did not have time for this new fangled Chinese flu and that we would be obliged if she would stop spreading alarm and despondency which, she should know by now, was the media's job. It was the usual kerfuffle and was a direct result of electing the village idiot to the job because no one else wanted it, but it still made for a poor start to the day. And then I started turning over a new bed and the robins pitched up and gave me that crack on, we want our lunch look and Limpy the Fox creaked over to see if there was anything for him and one way and another it made for quite a cheery outing.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 30, 2020 14:07:53 GMT
I was at the allotment yesterday and Hon Sec was being her usual pain in the arse about this bug that is doing the rounds. She had shut the allotment shop, banned bonfires and wanted us to wash our hands and no end of other goody goody crap. So we explained that what with heart attacks, triple bypasses, tin knees, cancer treatment, alcoholism and terminal old age, most of us did not have time for this new fangled Chinese flu and that we would be obliged if she would stop spreading alarm and despondency which, she should know by now, was the media's job. It was the usual kerfuffle and was a direct result of electing the village idiot to the job because no one else wanted it, but it still made for a poor start to the day. And then I started turning over a new bed and the robins pitched up and gave me that crack on, we want our lunch look and Limpy the Fox creaked over to see if there was anything for him and one way and another it made for quite a cheery outing. What?
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Post by MooseNugget on Mar 30, 2020 14:18:50 GMT
I used to do it a long time ago.
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Post by sadsaak on Mar 30, 2020 15:48:29 GMT
I was at the allotment yesterday and Hon Sec was being her usual pain in the arse about this bug that is doing the rounds. She had shut the allotment shop, banned bonfires and wanted us to wash our hands and no end of other goody goody crap. So we explained that what with heart attacks, triple bypasses, tin knees, cancer treatment, alcoholism and terminal old age, most of us did not have time for this new fangled Chinese flu and that we would be obliged if she would stop spreading alarm and despondency which, she should know by now, was the media's job. It was the usual kerfuffle and was a direct result of electing the village idiot to the job because no one else wanted it, but it still made for a poor start to the day. And then I started turning over a new bed and the robins pitched up and gave me that crack on, we want our lunch look and Limpy the Fox creaked over to see if there was anything for him and one way and another it made for quite a cheery outing. What? Mind you, I am well knackered today. After 8 hours digging I went home and passed out for the next ten. I had plans to do a bit more now that spring is only a few weeks away but it is raining and to be honest, I am glad of the chance to put my feet up.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 30, 2020 16:11:08 GMT
What? Mind you, I am well knackered today. After 8 hours digging I went home and passed out for the next ten. I had plans to do a bit more now that spring is only a few weeks away but it is raining and to be honest, I am glad of the chance to put my feet up. But you are around more than, what, ten or so people at a time?
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Post by sadsaak on Mar 30, 2020 16:38:13 GMT
Mind you, I am well knackered today. After 8 hours digging I went home and passed out for the next ten. I had plans to do a bit more now that spring is only a few weeks away but it is raining and to be honest, I am glad of the chance to put my feet up. But you are around more than, what, ten or so people at a time? Probably not. I doubt that there were a dozen folk on the entire 10 acre site. Usually we get together and have a bit of a craic but as I have said, spring is just a few weeks away so everyone was to busy working. It would have been nice to meetup for a pint afterwards but Boris the Bastard has closed all the pubs, which will be remember come the next election.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 30, 2020 18:48:50 GMT
But you are around more than, what, ten or so people at a time? Probably not. I doubt that there were a dozen folk on the entire 10 acre site. Usually we get together and have a bit of a craic but as I have said, spring is just a few weeks away so everyone was to busy working. It would have been nice to meetup for a pint afterwards but Boris the Bastard has closed all the pubs, which will be remember come the next election. So, you're not concerned about not practicing social distancing?
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Post by sadsaak on Mar 30, 2020 19:15:43 GMT
Probably not. I doubt that there were a dozen folk on the entire 10 acre site. Usually we get together and have a bit of a craic but as I have said, spring is just a few weeks away so everyone was to busy working. It would have been nice to meetup for a pint afterwards but Boris the Bastard has closed all the pubs, which will be remember come the next election. So, you're not concerned about not practicing social distancing? Of course I am. The last time a member of the allotment committee came round I told him to fuck off and that I had meet higher life forms the last time the toilet paper broke. But mostly I am happy to extend the hand of friendship although to be honest, the aforementioned flunkies tend to be a bit standoffish.
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Post by sadsaak on Mar 30, 2020 19:48:26 GMT
I recently joined a Facebook group for home gardening and such. Then I was thinking if there posters here using this time in social distancing to tend to their gatden? I have no plants as of yet, but I will! I don't have any real plans for the new allotment. I am currently digging out beds and planting potatoes because I like to see something growing even if it is just the haulms. And I like to add a few lilies bulbs and such to cheer things up further and to give the bees something to do. And of course, having to dig the murphies up every few months makes soil increasingly easy to work. Everything looks a bit scruffy so far because I just chuck the weeds and such on top of the beds so that they can decompost down. It is tidier and faster using a compost heap but more work, so I don't.
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Post by sadsaak on Mar 31, 2020 14:07:27 GMT
A problem I have and which is something that I should have foreseen, is that I can't get any seeds on tape. Trying to spread a small packet of parsnip or carrot seed along a ten yard trench is a pain, so I buy them already spaced out on tape, which saves a lot of fuss. Unfortunately, all the garden centres have closed down and that is me stymied.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Mar 31, 2020 16:07:51 GMT
I turned my front yard into mostly a perennial garden. Did it over the course of 10 years. I started closest to my house and every year took out 3 or 4 feet of grass and put various rows or clusters of different perennials and small shrubs. A few ornamental pines, a couple Japanese maples, a larger ornamental tree that turned out to be a crabapple tree. Or moved stuff around and made slight tiers out of simple retaining wall blocks from Lowes.
I suppose if I did the whole thing in one shot, the whole layout might be more creative. But I had to make it look presentable each year. Pretty much the flowering stuff is staggered so there is always something blooming. I have things that will bloom in late May, then when they are done others will bloom in mid-June, then some other things that bloom in late-July, then some in late August which can last through the entire fall. And at the latest, I have an ornamental grass that stops growing in September then blooms in mid-October. Last fall I was thinking it wasn't going to bloom at all - then the flower parts opened up about a week before it snowed. Those look cool when covered in snow and frozen.
Interested to see what is going to come up this year. Last fall I got some nice sale items at the end of the year, and relocated some existing things to make room. I was planning on a few spots needing a couple new spring additions. A simple $50 trip to the nursery for 3 or 4 new things. Not looking like that is going to happen though.
I have been trending that way myself, trying to go to permaculture, woodland habitat and want to plant fruit trees and shrubs. Mowing grass is a pain, and in my pastures I have goats that keep things in check. I also encourage milkweed, to help the Monarch butterflies. I have planted perennials also, and that keeps me happy. I imagine this year will be mostly tending to that, and adding as I can. I have tried vegetables, but my soil isn't the best for that, so I share crop with several friends at a local farmer's property.
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