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MORNING FORKERS

Hiya blackest

Domt think spacings are tooooooo important.  I guess I do it by spontaneous judgement......sounds rather grand, doesn't it?......probably by hand span, finger to thumb.  They have enough room to thicken out but close enough to knit together.

Digging a vegetable Plot

Jayn

Turn it over again....this time try and "trench" your sods of grass into the soil.  It's not  hard to do.  Dig short trench and bury your sods of grass, face down.  Continue until all your "debris" is buried and your soil is clean.  Obviously, do not bury perennial weeds....remove those.

No, you havent messed up your soil structure and the soil conditions  are better now for working on.

If you can, when you have levelled your soil, add some bags of compost to it and rake it into the surface

Its all a learning curve.  Next year you will have learned by this year's experience

Have fun

MORNING FORKERS

Good morning forkers

Not so sunny but warm and dry.  Things really growing now.  

As usual, they got the weather forecast wrong again.  Often down here that happens.  It's meant warmer drier comditions ....looks promising for week ahead.  Hoping dove gets good weather for her stay in Cornwall

Been pulling off the dead daffodil foliage and the "tidyness" is returning....viz.  I can see the emerging summer plants and they have more room to grow properly

Have nice day folks

Verbena B

I always see seedlings around late summer.  I pot them up and place in semi shade.  Plant out following spring

Hosta flowering - shall I or shan't I?

I notice over time that when the flowers are declining so too does the foliage.  I did some experiments once to compare.  Those having their flowers removed kept their foliage in top condition for longer.

However. I do let some flower and I enjoy them for same reasons obelixx stated.....form,colour n scent.  Where grown for pure foliage contrast to their neighbours I remove flowers.  

Cactus or.....,....

Hiya nut..well, one eats you amd you eat the other!

Hello jo

Christmas cactus.....it's not a cactus....would be something to consider.  They don't need much attention and flower for several weeks with interesting folkage.  You could alternate with Cyclamen or others to prolong floweriing interest

Talkback: How to maintain your lawn

Evening Michael

For me it's a no-brainer......I would turn it over trenching in the grass upside down.  Rotovating makes a mess and simply spreads everything in top few inches.

Ideally you would wait until September but if you're like me you may want to do it now.  Turn it over, walk all over it, rake, firm again and rake again.  Repeated raking is important for levels, etc.  A week or so before seed sowing rake in a general fertiliser. You will need to water both seed and young grass for the summer.

Autumn time allows you more time though so patience is best.  

Hosta flowering - shall I or shan't I?

No, I would remove the flower stems.

More will replace them but, more importantly, your hosta will use its energy to produce bigger leaves.  I notice that slugs n snails are attracted to the hosta flowers so for some hostas I do not allow them to flower.  When the flowers are going over the local slug radio encourages the whole population to them

Saint or sinner?.....don't like annuals

Hiya Aliesh

No the perennial heliotrope won't be hardy there where you are but it survives happily in a cold greenhouse.  You can dig them up and pot them in the autumn or/and take cuttings now or durimg the summer.  I took cuttings few weeks ago and yesterday potted them up Imto 9 cm pots. They will grow quickly and in a month will go into 1 litre pots thence into the ground or large pots in mid summer

polyanthus

I dig up many of my polyanthus every year to make room.  I split and plant them in shady part of the garden.  Also pot some up and leave in the shade.  They are perfectly happy with this.

So Witch....get them out and put in your geraniums

Saint or sinner?.....don't like annuals

It's made my day......

Marigolds in the veg patch

Cannot propagate new guinea impatiens

Veronicastrums and heleniums

The very best variegated herbaceous n perennial plants....and do you like em?

More blue n yellow

Late seed sowing

Plants for summer scent

DONT PANIC MR MANNERING........

Mannequins in the garden

Mannequins in the garden

Libertias....who knows em?

Perennial project the forum way

Let's find out who gave me the Lurgy