Gardening: Hints and Help!
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@Takethedogalong @Bakers2 @heddlo - thank you all for your suggestions and the time you have taken over them! Just goes to show how dim I am when it comes to plants🙄. Lots of ideas there for us to think about. We do actually already have bamboo in the garden - by the pond - but I'm told it's a non-invasive variety and it certainly hasn't spread very much at all and it must have been in for over 10 years. I have to say that I am leaning towards @heddlo's suggestion of colourful shrubs - the 'low maintenance' bit being most appealing! Thanks, once again to you all.
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Yes, some great ideas, and you do need a lot of time and effort for certain layouts. Sadly something I have plenty of time for at home at the moment☹️My garden is what keeps me going at times. I have 13 borders/flower beds at the moment, some are only small but do have a few really big/long ones, I take each one at a time to keep top side of, but the tidying, weeding prevention is ongoing.
Keep an eye on that bamboo🫣
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@Bakers2 I finally used my weed burner yesterday. It was sort of like being in one of those old US/Japanese WW2 films😱 Jury is out on what I bought it mainly for, but good for zapping weeds out in open.0
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@Takethedogalong OH uses his weedburner on the paths and patio. It's very good at clearing the weeds in those areas. He hasn't used it for the beds. Good old fashioned weeding there!1
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@Takethedogalong I hope you find it useful. I certainly do. We have an area, the width of the garage about 30 inches wide behind the garage with crazy paving. Great for storing stuff. But there is only soil between the paving. I 'found' tubs of bulbs under the growth last autumn. No good for my weed burner or weeding. After much deliberation I brought some weed killer. First ever. Not used it there yet as the weeds are not big enough. Did try on a very small area of block paving with seedlings coming through. Very carefully followed the instructions. No noticeable difference after 10 days - but I can see some now. Not overly impressed. Took my weedburner to an area, we have a very large area!, of block paving and spent an hour clearing that of weeds. Instant improvement, still looking good. Haven't managed any more yet - life seems rather busy here and I don't exactly know why! Confirms my opinion that weedkiller is awful, but I will use behind the garage so long as our hedgehog doesn't return. I have not seen it or any signs this year 😪.
@milliehull I use my weedburher on borders sometimes, for deep rooted weeds and wood avens, which are prolific here, when the borders have little around them. I think I'm winning. Very useful early in the year when I spot the latter, but don't have time to do all the proper weeding, it certainly slows them up and doesn't allow seeding 🤣2 -
I wanted to use mine for zapping bindweed coming from next door, but we used a plastic based board system at the bottom of the fence, so wary around melting bit of our new fence🤭 OH would go ballistic. I am going to resort to a method I know does work. Will let it grow a bit, twist it into a ball, stuff in into a plastic bag, zap it with weed killer until it dies back. But I can only do this while things are still low in border. I had hoped next door might have done a bit the other side of the fence, as we did tidy up the other side as much as we could, but it hasn’t happened, so I shall have to use weed killer. At least I won’t be fighting it off coming through the hedge this year.0
