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Thyme To Garden - March 2019
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Last month's thread is here.
With a new season just around the corner, what are you doing to get your garden prepared for spring?
With a new season just around the corner, what are you doing to get your garden prepared for spring?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Nothing yet. I keep a wild garden and won't be tidying and pruning until it really warms up and anything hibernating has a chance to get warmed up and moving. There is also the thing that most of the garden is a bog and will need to dry out. My cherry plum has been full of bees so assuming I can keep the bloom there should be a good crop this year The daffodils are full of buds and the other blossom trees are starting to look really exciting. Sadly my mimosa is over for this year but the camellias are starting to look impressive which is amazing considering the dry summer we had. More importantly the weeds are starting to show which means by the time the tortoises can leave my spare room to be outside, there should be plenty of natural food for them. Plan this year is for much repotting of year end bargain fruit trees and grape vines into 30l tubs. I was going to do it last year when they were delivered but had nice workman here most of the summer which meant I had to supervise the dogs a lot and much of the garden was out of bounds while he built me a new shed and stripped out two bathrooms.
Ok, a question. I've had some raised bed kits delivered. Both types are wooden, and both had some bright green, I assume fungal or mildew, staining. Not exactly impressed about that.
Is this harmless to any plants I might choose to grow in the bed, or do I need to treat the wood somehow first ? The more expensive ones were meant to be already treated.
(Wet and miserable today so just slotted the bits together and left them on the patio. I will nail the top bits one has supplied, when the weather's better. Difficult to be enthusiastic about much when the day's this grey.)
Is this harmless to any plants I might choose to grow in the bed, or do I need to treat the wood somehow first ? The more expensive ones were meant to be already treated.
(Wet and miserable today so just slotted the bits together and left them on the patio. I will nail the top bits one has supplied, when the weather's better. Difficult to be enthusiastic about much when the day's this grey.)
Ah, ok. Maybe I won't take them apart and bleach everything then.
Braved the wind yesterday when the rain had stopped for a bit, and nailed the top bits on. Nothing split !
But the already slotted in side bits when received must have a small issue. Won't be major but one end of it wasn't down fully so I hit it with a hammer, and the other end sprung up. Think that side piece must be bowed down in the middle.
Looks ok. Roughly in their final locations. Will fill them later this month
Braved the wind yesterday when the rain had stopped for a bit, and nailed the top bits on. Nothing split !
But the already slotted in side bits when received must have a small issue. Won't be major but one end of it wasn't down fully so I hit it with a hammer, and the other end sprung up. Think that side piece must be bowed down in the middle.
Looks ok. Roughly in their final locations. Will fill them later this month
Isn't it lovely when plants you thought were dead and gone suddenly spring back to life? For example, last year, I bought an expensive but very beautiful Japanese Acer which had pride of place on my patio.
By September it was just a dried up stem with a few branches sticking out at the sides. Suddenly, in the last week, it has sprouted new leaves and is beginning to look as beautiful as it was when I bought it. I love Spring.
By September it was just a dried up stem with a few branches sticking out at the sides. Suddenly, in the last week, it has sprouted new leaves and is beginning to look as beautiful as it was when I bought it. I love Spring.
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