Scoundrel's gardening thread - Page 57

**Welderman** · September 11th, 2017, 08:57 PM

Brilliant, Thanks guys..

**deepsepia** · September 8th, 2018, 09:41 AM

I have been dragooned into gardening by the GF, who is passionate about it. I am less so, but none the less, I've been transformed into a World War One infantryman, I'm digging trenches in very hard baked clay soil

We're planting bamboo, and bamboo has to be treated like Ebola, apparently--it needs a containment facility, a trench lined with a barrier, lest it overwhelm the defenses and spread everywhere.

Can I say "Its a lot of work for a grass"?

**Sir Honkers** · September 9th, 2018, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by deepsepia

We're planting bamboo, and bamboo has to be treated like Ebola, apparently--it needs a containment facility, a trench lined with a barrier, lest it overwhelm the defenses and spread everywhere.

Can I say "Its a lot of work for a grass"?

Wait 'til it gets into areas in the garden where you don't want it and you have to dig it out. We'll have to start a whole new thread just for your bitching.
We've just planted a new herb garden and the first lot of vegies for Spring.

**deepsepia** · September 9th, 2018, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by loosegoose

Wait 'til it gets into areas in the garden where you don't want it and you have to dig it out. We'll have to start a whole new thread just for your bitching.
We've just planted a new herb garden and the first lot of vegies for Spring.

GF grew up with bamboo, and she's got a plan, hence the backbreaking labour. We're digging a deep trench, lining it with barrier. Then soil goes in. Then bamboo. This particular spot is physically isolated as well.

Check back in five years and we'll find out whether it worked!

GF knows plants-- yours truly is more in the vintage porn line of expertise . .. so hell if I know. I did have to pull out a whole lot of struggling scotch pine -- too many trees, too close together, so I've had that !fun.

**judy84** · April 16th, 2020, 10:23 AM

In these worrying times can I make a suggestion. Just cutting the eyes or sproutings of potatoes with a bit of flesh and sticking them in the ground always gives me a good crop after they have flowered.

**Mal Hombre** · April 16th, 2020, 10:50 AM

Potatoes have eyes to see you through the week, After all...

**haunted** · April 16th, 2020, 11:19 AM

Any tips to keep cats away from a newly planted vegatable plot?

**judy84** · April 16th, 2020, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by haunted

Any tips to keep cats away from a newly planted vegatable plot?

They seem to like newly dug soil. I generally dig some "decoy" soil and put sticks around the vegetable plot. I have also used old plastic bottles with the ends cut off old panes of glass and plastic and bark and branches.

**CallMeMaybe** · April 16th, 2020, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by haunted

Any tips to keep cats away from a newly planted vegatable plot?

I tried spraying mine with the hose but the crazy yard ape loves water!!! The one thing she likes more is purposely stepping in mud and tracking it into the house.

My kitten loves gardening... let me rephrase that, my kitten loves rototilling my garden.

They just declared greenhouses and nurseries an essential service here.

**judy84** · May 23rd, 2020, 02:57 PM

The first pea pods have emerged and are now about an inch long.
Although not the shortest day my wife has dug up a pile of garlic which seems to grow similar to spring onions and chives in clumps and re-emerges year after year.
The tomato plants are growing really well in the fine weather we have had.

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deepsepia Moderator Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Upper left corner Posts: 7,205 Thanks: 47,961 Thanked 83,458 Times in 7,199 Posts	I have been dragooned into gardening by the GF, who is passionate about it. I am less so, but none the less, I've been transformed into a World War One infantryman, I'm digging trenches in very hard baked clay soil We're planting bamboo, and bamboo has to be treated like Ebola, apparently--it needs a containment facility, a trench lined with a barrier, lest it overwhelm the defenses and spread everywhere. Can I say "Its a lot of work for a grass"?

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judy84 Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Wilts Posts: 2,008 Thanks: 34,481 Thanked 21,442 Times in 2,021 Posts	In these worrying times can I make a suggestion. Just cutting the eyes or sproutings of potatoes with a bit of flesh and sticking them in the ground always gives me a good crop after they have flowered.

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judy84 Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Wilts Posts: 2,008 Thanks: 34,481 Thanked 21,442 Times in 2,021 Posts	The first pea pods have emerged and are now about an inch long. Although not the shortest day my wife has dug up a pile of garlic which seems to grow similar to spring onions and chives in clumps and re-emerges year after year. The tomato plants are growing really well in the fine weather we have had.