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plants

Posted: 25/04/2013 at 20:44

Hi dannyboy.....it will be nice to see your garden when it Is all done. I get excited when planting time comes.

Bedding plants

Posted: 25/04/2013 at 20:37

My flat is starting to bulge at the seams with all my plants.......but will hold back the planting. Hurry up summer or spring.....

Has anyone put out there bedding plants yet or cuttings.......I have been hardening off some of my plants but with the threat of frost I am still holding back.....was going to put them put next week, come what may. Wow.....can't believe I can upload a photo....been trying for months!!!!!

encouragement for azaleas

Posted: 20/04/2013 at 14:13

The azaleas I look after are growing but no flowers yet.......got new growth on them but can't see any flower buds.......put slow release eracious feed down last week so hopefully with the weather warming they will flower soon.

Talkback: Slugs

Posted: 18/04/2013 at 16:18

Thanks Verdun. That makes sense about the birds eating the slugs. Will put nematodes down then when the weather is a bit warmer.

Talkback: Slugs

Posted: 18/04/2013 at 15:38

Am thinking of getting nematodes to deal with the mass of slugs I am expecting again this year. I can't use pellets because sometimes there are children in the area and also they think birds may eat the pellets...has anyone else heard that.
Last year the slugs nearly murdered all the bedding plants in the raised beds, I am not going to let them get away with it this year. If you use nematodes do you need to change the compost later in the year or can you just put fresh compost on the top?

Potting on or Planting out?

Posted: 18/04/2013 at 15:26

I am just hardening off my geranium cuttings which have been inside all winter. I put them out in the morning and bring them in again about 5pm, I will do this for two weeks. If it is windy I will shelter them and also from hard rain but touch wood we haven't had any rain since I started putting them out. They are doing ok.

Advice required for low maintenance raised beds?

Posted: 13/04/2013 at 15:15

Not sure if all that is for you fabio, but I hope it may give you a few ideas.

Advice required for low maintenance raised beds?

Posted: 13/04/2013 at 15:09

I look after raised beds for a nursing home, some of the shrubs are hydrangeas, azalea, pieris, and a few others which I can't remember off hand, we do have a California lilac and fatsia japonica but they may be too big.......whatever, all these shrubs are pretty low maintenance, we have some blue bells and narcissus planted in there. And just to add a little colour in the summer I put quite a few annual begonias in, they look very nice and once again low maintenance, just a little water when they need it. Hope this is of some help, good idea to look at the labels on shrubs to see how high they grow. Each spring with most of the shrubs I care for I give a prune, I read up on them all to make sure I looked after them properly. I also give a general feed (slow release in the spring and an eracious feed on any acid loving shrubs in the spring). This may sound a lot but believe me it isn't.