Towers Garden

[JR]

Reminds me of la can-can dans 'La Folies Bergère'!

Miko (Vive la entente cordiale)

It's very unlike me Miko I can't remember what its called, I would have remembered if it had a name like that

There doing great I’ll post a update on my thread later. Yes going be a late garden for me this year. If I didn’t do all that hard work early spring getting it ready I probably would just forget this year.

Will look fwd to seeing Lee.

Dried blood and bone dont hear that used much these days.
Good job on taking the bulbs up. We leave our in all year round. There are far to many to take up each year.

No , think the name puts most people off .Just use it to give the compost a revival.
We leave some in, but the majority of the daffs are in tubs anyway. The hyacinth are originally from a friend who gives a bowl full to Christine as she puts his bin away once emptied so he can reverse his van in when he comes home . Every year these are mounting up , nice to grown them again .

I always understood that to be more for veg growers with the need for fertilizers high in nitrogen, it's still available from companies like Westlands.

Although synthetic nitrogen supplements are more popular because of the name I suppose



I'll lift my bulbs in summer when Mother Nature does, although I do understand the need to when seasonal planting requires

Miko (horticulturally inclined)

Just use it as I mentioned to Ian Miko, seems to work as the plants appear to like it . Also once those young pants have established them selves a balanced feed is given .
Containers needed so the bulbs in them have to exit, been doing this now for years . Find that in drying you don't loose as many due to rot . The final storage is important , stacked up in trays in paper bags .

[Miko]

. . . . young pants have established them selves a balanced feed is given .

Eeeeeeeepp! Ha!

Miko (powsts teh ockashnul typeau)

[Ian M]

We have about 5000 bulbs in total in the garden. If I suggested to Carina, that they should be taken up for the winter... been nice knowing you... lol.
Blood, hoof and horn, bone meal. Its all good. And good compost.

[Strenko J]

Absolutely stunning beautiful garden John

[JR]

Absolutely stunning beautiful garden John

Many thanks Joe.

[A_J_Rimmer]

That's a lovely garden and I do like your little garden companion.

[stillp]

Dried blood and bone dont hear that used much these days.

Don't get hoof and horn either. I wonder what happens to those if they're not used as fertiliser?
Pete

[Waspie]

Oh boy have I made a mistake. I showed SWMBO your garden. All I have had since is, 'why can't you be good at gardening'. So today as a special treat and to show her I can do gardening. I mowed the lawn.
But even I have to admit, you do a nice garden John. :thumb2:

[JR]

Oh boy have I made a mistake. I showed SWMBO your garden. All I have had since is, 'why can't you be good at gardening'. So today as a special treat and to show her I can do gardening. I mowed the lawn.
But even I have to admit, you do a nice garden John. :thumb2:

Thanks Doug.

[Tworrs]

John your garden is looking really fantastic, I wouldn't even dare to visit your garden for fear of your lovely plants dying one by one as I walk past.
My skills on the gardening front are about zilch, even having tried for many years, I have had to admit my shortcomings.

[Waspie]

John your garden is looking really fantastic, I wouldn't even dare to visit your garden for fear of your lovely plants dying one by one as I walk past.
My skills on the gardening front are about zilch, even having tried for many years, I have had to admit my shortcomings.

You sound like me. A plant killer by presence. I buy them, I plant them - they die!!!!

[JR]

John your garden is looking really fantastic, I wouldn't even dare to visit your garden for fear of your lovely plants dying one by one as I walk past.
My skills on the gardening front are about zilch, even having tried for many years, I have had to admit my shortcomings.

Thank you but It's a lot like modelling you learn as you make mistakes and pick up tips from others.

[JR]

You sound like me. A plant killer by presence. I buy them, I plant them - they die!!!!

Can I use your services for weedkilling ?:nerd:

[Waspie]

Can I use your services for weedkilling ?:nerd:

I'm sorry John, fully booked by the Dorset Male Gardening Society!!!
And SWMBO hasn't learned nuffink in 50 + years of marriage. She actually asked me to plant a few Forget me Nots today!! On her own head be it!!!!

[Miko]

She actually asked me to plant a few Forget me Nots today!! On her own head be it!!!!

It's difficult to kill those, even glyphosate isn't 100% effective once they are established

Miko (cloud pruning later)