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  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,650 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Well I managed to get the raised veggie patch weeded and enriched on Friday, which then crippled for for the following two days. So I've yet to get any seeds in the ground, but it does give me something to do this coming Friday. 😆

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,409 Championing

    haha i tell the young'uns to pace themselves and even now i dont follow my advise it is a nice hurt tho

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,650 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Haha, yes I'm very much a person who can give great advice, but I'm terrible at taking it. 😆

    It's certainly helped my mental health though, seeing that glorious blank canvas, ready for seeds. 😁

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,409 Championing

    dahlia soaking day ready for planting sleeper planters painted and topped up blackbird comes after my hard work and chucks it everywhere with his new found lady friend they do make us smile

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,650 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Awww, I'm glad Mr Blackbird has found love @michael57 I love watching our pair hopping around, demolishing the tidy piles of dirt we've made. They're always in such a rush too. 😆

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,409 Championing
  • egister
    egister Posts: 917 Pioneering

    It is not clear why you planted raspberries near the wall. There should be a distance of at least a couple of feet. In 20 years you will be tired of these weeds with berries).

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,409 Championing

    back in the day on the farm we would use used railway sleepers for gate posts the more tar on them the better making them water proof they were more weather proof than your modern garden sleeper made from soft woods the asbestos dust could cause a problem from used sleepers tho and sitting on hot sticky tar could be fun

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 1,015 Championing

    I like the smell of old railway sleepers! Was looking at hard wood sleepers from Africa. They were very old, with alot of 33nhin3

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 1,015 Championing

    alot of engine oil, diesel splodges.

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,409 Championing

    last a lot longer than what they class as sleepers nowadays

  • Grumpy1314
    Grumpy1314 Online Community Member Posts: 177 Empowering

    Ex Private Gardener in and around the Oldham, Saddleworth and Clayton in Manchester, former Grade 4 Gardener & Estate Ranger for OMBC Parks & Countryside. A career I regret leaving when I moved to Chesterfield in 2012.

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    Now I’ve got my own flat, I want to get a raised bed with a trellis with three pots, place some roses, all year round flowering perennials, seeds to attract bees, 🐝 plus various bulbs that will flower through the year. The British Legion do First World War Tommy Solar Lights, I want to install three in memory of my three great great uncles who sadly passed away during the war.

    Then I’m going to be like Ma Clampet and sit on a rocking chair outside of my front door in summer, then when I get an assistance dog I can sit with him/her out there, testing there stay with all the cats around.

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 1,015 Championing

    I know that north of Aberdeen, there is track that was laid in the 1930s! The Network Rail lads working late at night told me (I am often out very late with the dog).

  • egister
    egister Posts: 917 Pioneering

    Oils, diesel fuel and the like from old sleepers are released into the soil and pollute it. It is unlikely that anyone deliberately waters apple trees and carrots with kerosene from a watering can, right?)

  • onedayatatime
    onedayatatime Online Community Member Posts: 236 Empowering

    Oh my! I need to repaint a weathered gnome that has lost paint in the most unfortunate way! 🤭

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  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,650 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Oh blimey @onedayatatime I'm unsure if I need to censor that picture. 😆

  • JW77
    JW77 Online Community Member Posts: 184 Empowering

    Latest from Thrive gardening Club

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    Its full of good stuff including gardening for the visually impaired and seed sowing..
    I REALLY disagree with their making a new bed however..

    Its FAR easier to make a fresh No Dig bed with layers of cardboard and either wood chip or compost..

    In my own garden we're (me & the girl) are enjoying carrots sown from seed - Monty style.. I'm pretty impressed.. I've never every managed to grow carrots.. I think raised beds are the answer.. Also the gooseberries look like they're gonna have a good crop again this year, first rhubarb is looking promising and broad beans are doing well..

    I'll be busy, IF I've got the energy - still recovering from having a tooth pulled a few weeks ago and now on antibiotics …

  • JW77
    JW77 Online Community Member Posts: 184 Empowering

    Garden Organic has got it covered for this month - poking the compost - yeah I think I can manage that

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