Gardening: Do you have green fingers?

chiarieds

Hi @Dragonslayer - well my neighbours were amused by my 'anti-slug' stance. I used to think be kind & true to all creatures (except flies), but then slugs had more lettuce than I did last year. I used pellets, but they were still around. I used go around each morning, & pick them up with scissors, put them onto an old dustpan, & throw them onto the road.... well at least I didn't kill them! It seems with any slug infestation, you need to get rid of them from your garden, or there will be more the following year. There are many theories, & you will have to choose. I haven't found any slugs near my plants this year, & my lettuce is doing very well.

About cats, I've used 'Silent Roar' Lion dung pellets in the past. When I acquired a kitten a while ago, I purchased it for both of my next door neighbours, who didn't appreciate her visits. Whilst I waited for my first purchase, some old CDs I had seemed to deter her from my first neighbour's front garden. Cats apparently don't like shiny reflective surfaces. Some say a plastic bottle partly filled with water can do the same. Anyway, here's some info that may help you decide how to solve this problem: https://www.deckinghero.com/reviews/cat-deterrents

Chloe_Alumni

Really interesting @dkb123! Thank you for sharing this with us.

RAwarrior

@leeCal

Do you know the name of this plant?

I bought it a couple of years ago and it has flowered continuously, however, I have lost the label.   

I know you are a keen gardener so perhaps you might know the name? 

I would have posted this on the other gardening thread (the one where you have posted lots of photos of beautiful flowers) however, I can’t remember the title of the thread and I can’t find it. 

As you know I posted on the thread, however, I can’t find a way of accessing my previous posts without going through the email.

I tried my plant identification app but it can’t identify it. 

Many thanks?

leeCal

Hi @RAwarrior I think I’ve seen it before but I don’t know it’s name. However my neighbour knows most plants so I’ll ask her later.

leeCal

@chiarieds what really gets rid of slugs and snails is a hedgehog ? 
unfortunately they are becoming scarce. Me and my neighbour have little arched holes in our fences as hedgehog highways but alas they remain unused ?

RAwarrior

@leeCal
Thank you very much ?

RAwarrior

@leeCal

Do you know the name of the other gardening thread?
Many thanks ?

leeCal

@RAwarrior plants and flowers you like/you’d like

RAwarrior

@leeCal

Thank you very much?

leeCal

@RAwarrior it’s called abutilon megapotamicum

RAwarrior

@leeCal

Thank you so much for your help??

I am going do a label for it as I often lose the ones I get with the plant particularly as I find it difficult to push the label into the ground.

It is a really beautiful plant which has flowered for ages. As it is a wooded plant I will try to see if I can grow some cuttings from it. 

I bought it a while ago in a discount store but I have never seen one since even in a garden centre.

Many thanks?

chiarieds

Hi @leeCal - I have seen 2 hedgehogs in my garden (there's quite a gap under my front gate), & I saw one on the grassy area just beyond me some few weeks ago. I didn't know they ate slugs. Perhaps they cleared slugs up for me this year! I haven't put pellets down since I acquired my kitten some 15 months ago. I thought meticulously getting rid of them (slugs) before that had worked. I do live in a rural area, & have seen squirrels running along the top of my fence

gaz1960

Started liftng red and white potatoes, and picking runner beans, and lifting onions and spring onions and carrots off my allotment. 

Tomorrow,ill try doing real fresh chips in the airfryer,see how they come out  

Also try doing some potatoes,and carrots and onions as vegetable crisps in the airfryer. 

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RAwarrior

I came across this beautiful flower in the park a few weeks ago?

Ross_Alumni

What a lovely photo @RAwarrior, thanks for sharing  

leeCal

Looks like a dahlia @RAwarrior

RAwarrior

@Ross_Scope

You’re welcome ?

RAwarrior

@leeCal

Thank you very much?

I didn’t know what it was but it caught my eye so I took a picture?

RAwarrior

Talking of gardening, I saw this spider in the garden yesterday and I have never seen such a big or unusual spider before?

Thankfully I am not scared of spiders ?