The Gardening Bed

[Little Green Man]

Not if it's a camellia. Looks a bit big and bushy for a rose.

It is a big rascal so happen you're reet. It's next door's, that's my side of it. I do have a pink rose bush that's showing no sign of springing to life just now.

Just looking at my gran's camellia now - half the size of your neighbour's (she regularly trims her bush) but it's in flower too.

[thebish]

ever present whenever I do any gardening to see what i have unearthed - no garden is complete without a robin.. common, maybe - but full of cocky personality..

snapped this one up near Rotheram today..


robin by revnev, on Flickr

[Dujon]

S/he looks rather tired to me, thebish. Probably the bloody paparazzi?

[Bruce Rioja]

Where's The Axeman?

I need to know if I should move stickius out of his pot and into the garden?

[Gooner Girl]

Axman left in a strop Bruce - and i have no idea what you should do with it!

[Bruce Rioja]

Axman left in a strop Bruce - and i have no idea what you should do with it!

Seriously? Why's he done that? I really like the guy! And I know you've no idea about stickius, but I'm deffo looking after Milo when you go away

[Annoyed Grunt]

Not fellas in their 40s making up stories.

Read “Games we played as children”… It’s quite plain I left my 40s behind looooooong ago.

*cough* bullshit *cough*

Well, you saved me saying it !!
The same with the bllx on the "trouble at school thread too". Shame, as I'd got to quite enjoy the Ax.

Oh dear. Well all I can say is you’ve led sheltered lives if you think that those stories are fiction. I have much better tales than that from my past.
Shame, as I’d quite got to trust one or two of you on here, too.

Adieu, I know when I’ve outstayed a welcome.

Good luck with the relegation battle.

[Bruce Rioja]

Hope he comes back!

[thebish]

Hope he comes back!

leave it in the pot - that's why it's there in the first place!

[Gooner Girl]

Out in the garden today. Got blimming big rats chewing through the nesting box of my chicken house (i saw one - looked more like a small elephant) and black insects eating away at my cherry tree. Went back inside and decided to finish painting the bathroom today in preference to dealing with it all.

[thebish]

Out in the garden today. Got blimming big rats chewing through the nesting box of my chicken house (i saw one - looked more like a small elephant) and black insects eating away at my cherry tree. Went back inside and decided to finish painting the bathroom today in preference to dealing with it all.

get some pants on!

[Gooner Girl]

Out in the garden today. Got blimming big rats chewing through the nesting box of my chicken house (i saw one - looked more like a small elephant) and black insects eating away at my cherry tree. Went back inside and decided to finish painting the bathroom today in preference to dealing with it all.

get some pants on!

I had some on when i was out in the garden you'll be relieved to hear!

[thebish]

Out in the garden today. Got blimming big rats chewing through the nesting box of my chicken house (i saw one - looked more like a small elephant) and black insects eating away at my cherry tree. Went back inside and decided to finish painting the bathroom today in preference to dealing with it all.

get some pants on!

I had some on when i was out in the garden you'll be relieved to hear!

Hmmm... I shall be checking for pubes in the new paintwork tomorrow...

[Gooner Girl]

Out in the garden today. Got blimming big rats chewing through the nesting box of my chicken house (i saw one - looked more like a small elephant) and black insects eating away at my cherry tree. Went back inside and decided to finish painting the bathroom today in preference to dealing with it all.

get some pants on!

I had some on when i was out in the garden you'll be relieved to hear!

Hmmm... I shall be checking for pubes in the new paintwork tomorrow...

I haven't been rubbing my naked body up and down over newly painted walls!

[thebish]

Out in the garden today. Got blimming big rats chewing through the nesting box of my chicken house (i saw one - looked more like a small elephant) and black insects eating away at my cherry tree. Went back inside and decided to finish painting the bathroom today in preference to dealing with it all.

get some pants on!

I had some on when i was out in the garden you'll be relieved to hear!

Hmmm... I shall be checking for pubes in the new paintwork tomorrow...

I haven't been rubbing my naked body up and down over newly painted walls!

I shall be checking nonetheless!!

[Dujon]

There are times when you two really, really worry me.

[Armchair Wanderer]

This is my first year with a garden/yard for ages. Friend gave me a little tomato plant in May, promptly put it in the biggest pot I could find filled with miracle grow compost. Now, it's huge and full of varying sized tomatoes. It's apparently a hybrid of cherry and beef so calling it a cheef.

Been growing some Pak Choi indoors so those little fellas are going outdoors at a friend's house at the weekend.

[Dujon]

So you've finally got a garden/yard and you're sending out your pak choi on agistment?

[Armchair Wanderer]

So you've finally got a garden/yard and you're sending out your pak choi on agistment?

It's more of a yard than a garden, there's no soil so they're going somewhere to live in the ground. I've kept some in a rectangular container that are indoors at the moment but may well go out in the yard at some point. Clearing the space for the little blighters at my friend's place was terrifying, the most sinister thing being loads of slug eggs under the soil. My plan is to mix compost into the soil, put loads of slug pellets down and cover with horticultural fleece. They're big enough to go outside now, I just have to put my control issues aside and let go!

[Dujon]

Ah, so.

Fair enough, AW, I suppose digging up concrete/brick/paving could be an inconvenience. If I recall correctly pak choi prefers cooler weather (which means here that it's not always possible to successfully grow it) so yours should be happy outside in the next few weeks - if not before. Seeing as you're growing the stuff I suppose you've researched the drainage aspect. I have no idea as to what it prefers, so don't ask me if you don't know.

Good luck with the yard; it's amazing what you can do around the place with a wee bit of imagination and a collection of pot plants.