Site Supporter Spider Posted May 16, 2022 Site Supporter Share Posted May 16, 2022 Maybe it's my age, or maybe i've just got colour blind recently, but driving around these last few days I've noticed how fucking GREEN and lush everything seems to be. Verges, roadsides, fields, trees, every possible space seems thick with vegetation and it just appears more dense than I've ever nmoticed. Probably one for @Tonge moor green jacket but maybe all the efforts to reduce carbon are slowly starting to work. As an aside, it's giving all the horses at the farm laminitis, which comes from grass being too rich. But the country is looking good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Trimmed my bush yesterday. Was miles thicker than normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted May 16, 2022 Site Supporter Share Posted May 16, 2022 Ooh laminitis. Has too much fertiliser been used on the pasture? Anyway, it's the time of the year for greenness. Also not been too hot yet and the rain has come just in time. My veggies have taken off since we started getting some of the wet stuff. An absolute boon to mental health too. Remember folks, a little off the lawn, and more frequently. Not a scalping. Periodic feed, and care at the right time and you'll have a fine green sword. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Yeah - just time of year - everything is fresh and just getting ready for the summer riot of colour. Baking hot day on saturday, raining all day yesterday you can virtually hear the plants growing. In other news our wildflower lawn is looking superb, tall, lush and just getting ready to flower, snapdragons loving the cell wall along with the Celmatis flowering. Honeysuckle seems to be growing an inch each day and the sweetpeas have started to flower. Its great at this time of year. Down here by end of July everything use seems brown, dried up and ready to drop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted May 16, 2022 Site Supporter Share Posted May 16, 2022 If you have access to any, lob some wood ash on your flower beds. Failing that, a little tomato feed or something with a good dash of potassium in it. Not too much (it washes out fairly quickly) but it benefits flowering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 6 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: If you have access to any, lob some wood ash on your flower beds. Failing that, a little tomato feed or something with a good dash of potassium in it. Not too much (it washes out fairly quickly) but it benefits flowering. Oh - yes - we've done the tomato feed and some blood, fish and bone. Some of the cell plants haven't worked. What we are finding is that plants that like warm, dry soil with very little root depth do very well and those that can just seed on a ledge such as Red Valerian which has gone bonkers and has seeded in some lovely parts of the garden as it adapts to the poor, chalky soil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudy Posted May 16, 2022 Members Share Posted May 16, 2022 Tis right you are spider. More green than my dealers loft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escobarp Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: Ooh laminitis. Has too much fertiliser been used on the pasture? Anyway, it's the time of the year for greenness. Also not been too hot yet and the rain has come just in time. My veggies have taken off since we started getting some of the wet stuff. An absolute boon to mental health too. Remember folks, a little off the lawn, and more frequently. Not a scalping. Periodic feed, and care at the right time and you'll have a fine green sword. Or dig it up and lay down artificial. Looks green Every day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Wanderer Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Really noticed this too recently, it's lush out there Great stop off in Aviemore for a run yesterday en route back to Edinburgh. Looked lovely. Love the way a birch tree is still red in April then come May they're proper blooming. Shameless tree hugger me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickbrown Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Escobarp said: Or dig it up and lay down artificial. Looks green Every day I read they get bastard hot in the sun and burn dog' feet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escobarp Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 3 minutes ago, mickbrown said: I read they get bastard hot in the sun and burn dog' feet. It never gets hot up here 😬. Either way it’s a myth or is nowadays as the quality of the product now means this doesn’t really happen. Or at least that’s what I was told and had read before buying. genuinely best thing I’ve ever done in the garden and both neighbours are getting it now as well it looks that good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickbrown Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 14 minutes ago, Escobarp said: It never gets hot up here 😬. Either way it’s a myth or is nowadays as the quality of the product now means this doesn’t really happen. Or at least that’s what I was told and had read before buying. genuinely best thing I’ve ever done in the garden and both neighbours are getting it now as well it looks that good What brand is it? Asking for a lazy twat I know😃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escobarp Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 7 minutes ago, mickbrown said: What brand is it? Asking for a lazy twat I know😃 Not from same place but same stuff http://www.nevergrow.uk/35mm-Premier-Lawn-Artificial-Grass-Bounce-Back-Yarn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickbrown Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 30 minutes ago, Escobarp said: Not from same place but same stuff http://www.nevergrow.uk/35mm-Premier-Lawn-Artificial-Grass-Bounce-Back-Yarn Looks good that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted May 16, 2022 Site Supporter Share Posted May 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Not in Crawley said: Oh - yes - we've done the tomato feed and some blood, fish and bone. Some of the cell plants haven't worked. What we are finding is that plants that like warm, dry soil with very little root depth do very well and those that can just seed on a ledge such as Red Valerian which has gone bonkers and has seeded in some lovely parts of the garden as it adapts to the poor, chalky soil. A lot of wildflowers don't want a rich, deep soil. They have adapted to poorer soils, and aren't out competed by others. If you're happy with what you have growing in poor soil then that's great- part of dealing with you're conditions without spending too much and still having something natural. On the other hand, if you want more variety, you may need to add extra stuff to the soil. FB&B is a good all round organic fertiliser, good distribution of minerals etc. Don't over do it though as it may encourage other things into the soil that you don't actually want. Just planted some courgettes, squashes and pumpkins into heavily (pig) manured beds. Very rich soil now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escobarp Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 18 minutes ago, mickbrown said: Looks good that Aye it’s great. Gave it a wash at weekend 😬 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted May 16, 2022 Site Supporter Share Posted May 16, 2022 https://desertturf.us/blog/how-can-i-protect-my-artificial-grass/ An American piece, but interesting nonetheless. Be careful what you leave on it- no spectacles that could focus the light! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 9 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: A lot of wildflowers don't want a rich, deep soil. They have adapted to poorer soils, and aren't out competed by others. If you're happy with what you have growing in poor soil then that's great- part of dealing with you're conditions without spending too much and still having something natural. On the other hand, if you want more variety, you may need to add extra stuff to the soil. FB&B is a good all round organic fertiliser, good distribution of minerals etc. Don't over do it though as it may encourage other things into the soil that you don't actually want. Just planted some courgettes, squashes and pumpkins into heavily (pig) manured beds. Very rich soil now! At the top of the garden (the very top of the hill) we've done bags of Courgettes and other veg so we'll see what happens. Very pleased this year - a hill garden is a pain in the arse and it takes a while to figure out what you actually can do. We've let the ferns grow as they look great with the wildflowers and we've started to see Cabbage Whites and more bees this year (we are lucky in that we always get a lot of bees and not so many wasps) At the front the Candy Tufts are looking great. Just the front lawn to sort as it gets baked all day in summer, everyon'es looks like a dust bowl by August. The only one that does its a lovely old Spanish woman who tends to it every day. To be honest it's my Mrs who leads the charge with all this. She's a member of RHS and is obsessed with all this, gets on well with my Dad who is also horticulture obsessed - I think his time a a Biology teacher was just so he could muck around with plants (although some of the George Toms pupils were quite bright - boom, boom) Anyway, its a lovely time of the year watching all the early spring hard work start to come to fuition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Biggish Dave Posted May 17, 2022 Site Supporter Share Posted May 17, 2022 I love this time of year - apart from battling the mares tail in the veg patch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Not in Crawley Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 Plastic lawns aren't for me, heart sinks a little when I see one. This idea that garends have to be neat and uniform and green all year round - as though a garden is a living room you can hover just seems wrong to me. I'm not a huge environmentalist but we can do little bits in our space to help our immediate environment and covering a garden in plastic doesn't seem to do that, it provides no food at all for any of our bugs and with the UK losing its wildflower medows at a staggering rate perhaps a bit of mowning and seeding isn't such a bad thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomski Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 I’m noticing the green a lot more. That said always really notice it on planes when coming back as opposed to being in other countries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Cheese Posted May 17, 2022 Site Supporter Share Posted May 17, 2022 Why is everyone suddenly confused by the concept of Spring? It happens every year you loons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted May 17, 2022 Author Site Supporter Share Posted May 17, 2022 14 minutes ago, Cheese said: Why is everyone suddenly confused by the concept of Spring? It happens every year you loons. There’s something more intense this year. have a look around you grumpy, cynical wankpellet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudy Posted May 17, 2022 Members Share Posted May 17, 2022 26 minutes ago, Cheese said: Why is everyone suddenly confused by the concept of Spring? It happens every year you loons. This is like double spring. More springy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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