Gardening

[diy_fun_uk]

For those on here with some form of garden, how much are you into gardening? Are you in your garden every free moment you have, pruning, weeding, cutting, sweeping, planting? Are you never in your garden, leaving it to grow into a wilderness? Or maybe somewhere between i.e. doing the basics to keep it presentable. Or do you pay for a gardener?

I'm definitely in the 'doing the basics' camp. I keep my front garden semi-presentable, weed the borders 2-3 times a year (with the help of weed killer tbh), cut the grass 3-4 times and spray my chipped driveway with weed killer to keep the weeds at bay. I have various shrubs in my front garden, some of which are supposed to be pruned every year or so, not great at doing that however none of them are at the 'taking over' stage so far!

My back garden has borders however they're devoid of any plants/shrubs. They get weed killer 2-3 times a year to keep the weeds at bay and the grass gets cut 3-4 times.

I suspect it's something I'll get more into when I retire.

You?

 

[securespark]

Never been into gardening. But I'm doing more as I get older.

It is mostly the basics like cutting the lawns and trimming hedges, bushes and trees.

 

[noseall]

Never been into gardening.

I think it's a thread for the childless or the retired.

 

[Notch7]

I love gardening

Today I’ve been pruning / training 2 plum trees which I’m growing as spindle bushes / knip trees.

I’ve got fairly large shed and combined garden office which is around 5 x 6.5m, It’s on pads and there’s a family of foxes, they don’t come in garden as I’ve got a dog, but they hang around in a fenced / gated part at the end of the garden, they’ve got used to me and I watch the cubs play.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

I love gardening

Today I’ve been pruning / training 2 plum trees which I’m growing as spindle bushes / knip trees.

I’ve got fairly large shed and combined garden office which is around 5 x 6.5m, It’s on pads and there’s a family of foxes, they don’t come in garden as I’ve got a dog, but they hang around in a fenced / gated part at the end of the garden, they’ve got used to me and I watch the cubs play.

Do you grow any other edibles?

 

[securespark]

We inherited an eating apple tree when we moved in 25 years ago.

Make lots of crumbles!

 

[noseall]

Deffo for folk with a lot of time on their hands, this thread.

 

[Notch7]

Do you grow any other edibles?

In recent years only runner beans and courgettes

The easiest vegetables to grow, runner beans once they start crop massively fast

 

[securespark]

One of the main reasons I don't do any cultivating is that, for various reasons (I think!), I have killed everything I have tried to grow...

 

[Ihavenojob]

Cut the grass a couple of times a week. Got a few planters with some veg (tomatoes, garlic and corn on the cob), and a small patch with some veg (runner beans and swede). Front is gravel and borders full of shrubs of some description-possibly lavender.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

One of the main reasons I don't do any cultivating is that, for various reasons (I think!), I have killed everything I have tried to grow...

Lol

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I suspect it's something I'll get more into when I retire.

You?

Front is a tiny 4x4m, the rear is vast, space enough to get lost in. When I moved in, the rear was totally wild, two massive weeping willows, and bramble had spread from the railway land at the back, up to our back kitchen window. It was so vast, people used to take a shortcut through our garden, to get to the rail station.

I chain link fenced it, to prevent anyone using it as a shortcut, then spent years cutting back and defeating the bramble. Eventually, I cut the two willows down, and 'bought' an odd triangle shaped piece of council land, to extend it even more. I went through struggling with one inadequate mower for the size of it, after another. I eventually gave up the struggle, and bought a little tractor mower, which not only made it easy, but cut it all easily in 30 minutes, versus a full days hard work, using a normal mower.

It was a bit of pain dragging the mower or tractor all the way round, to do the tiny front, so I pebbled that over. So all there was, was grass, until Avril arrived, but since then she has taken over planting and growing lots of flowers - I just keep out of the way, and leave her to it, aside from making up planters, and erecting greenhouses

It's a shallow bit of soil, atop heavy clay, so if it rains much, it floods and goes boggy. I added french drains to the worst of it, years ago, I'm just in the process of adding some more, at the moment.

 

[gas112]

nipped into garden centre yesterday for what i intended as a quick nosey around . 200 quid later im filling the boot of the car up .
Decided to change one of the borders .

 

[Doug99]

I enjoy gardening but am often frustrated, continually battling with my roses black spot and pesky slugs/snails which devastate my borders.
My baskets do a lot better as I tend to buy plug plants and bring them on before hanging. Even then, I have to regularly pick snails off the wall as they try to get to by baskets.......buggers.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

nipped into garden centre yesterday for what i intended as a quick nosey around . 200 quid later im filling the boot of the car up .
Decided to change one of the borders .

I've got too much on this year but next year I hope to get my back garden a bit more like an actual garden. Currently just a patch of grass and borders with nowt in them!