Minor glitch this week for all those avid garden readers!
Unfortunately I took it upon my self to purchase the .co.uk domain (secret celebration) and in doing so it has led to my internet provider no longer allowing me mobile blog access; therefore I am in an ongoing debate with a company (no names) over enabling mobile app access in order to update my daily blog, which for the first time (other than holibobs) it has not being updated for in over 4days due to this issues. Hopefully further information will come tomorrow allowing me the ease of posting as I had before. Until then - Goodnight!
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Wrong plant, wrong place is a weed? That’s debatable. Right plant, right place makes them not weeds - also debatable.
Simply - I view bindweed and ground elder as two of my most frequently dealt with weeds in a garden. I think this is because they are both rhizomes and people have a tendency to make matters worse without realising. Bindweed Calystegia sepium - 30m2 is how far it can spread underground. Fleshy white roots can be followed to the depths and beyond and seeds can lay in the ground for decades before sprouting. Aegopodium podagraria is renouned for outcompeting other plants and creating denses massses of invasive green foliage. The roots can spread a metre every year is left untouched. If pulled and the roots damaged it can Recreate plants from the most minuscule amount of cells. Dig with a fork if at all, remember the tiniest piece of remaking flesh is a new plant. You break the root 3times with a tug and that guarantees 3new plants. I suggest chemical control - small, specific and targeted areas. Even if you cut the established plant down to one foot and then spray it protecting the surrounding foliage of other plants. The glysophate will kill to the root abs no more weed will return. Just don’t pull it! Crucial, do not put the weeds foliage in your compost or anywhere in your garden or anyone else’s for that matter. Dispose of it wisely. If you truly do not wish to use spray then I advice you remove what you can meticulously and then cover with sheeting to starve it if water and light continually removing any new growth before you plant your plants in amongst the ground. Once a bed or boarder has ground elder it is very challenging to eradicate it. It’s getting hot - I’m sure it reached 30’c today - ok a slight over inflation!
Hydrate your hydrangeas. If your Annabelles looks droopy once dusk sets in give them a drink, try and give them water daily. The same for all the over varieties of hydrangeas. The etymology for the word hydrangea comes from Hydros, the Greek for water. You can over water but rarely - aim for at least an inch of water per week and don’t rely on the rain. It rarely penetrates the roots which are covered by foliage. Equally give them a deep water a few times per week to help give you strong roots! Then sit back and enjoy :-) |
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My husband and I live in a wonderful part of Kent and have ventured far and wide - residing in Cheshire to Hampshire to Massachusettes, USA. Eventually returning to Maidstone our home town.
We have two wonderfully bonnie children - let’s hope they have green fingers like their mum. We have a dog called Haribeau who is the worst gardener I know - great at shovelling dirt mind. Gardening was my addiction from a young age, I get lost once I’m in the mud and this is how it all began. It’s a therapy for the soul! |