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by Finiarél » Sat Jun 12, 2021 10:25 am

Right. I'm officially old and I'm taking an interest in the gardens.

Bind weed. How the hell am I supposed to get rid of the gooseberry fool?

Currently reseeding parts of the lawn, to try and get rid of the patch and have got some lawn food, to try and bring a big patchj back up.

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by Dowbocop » Sat Jun 12, 2021 10:44 am

My outdoor gardening this year has gone terribly. I try and grow a few flowers and simple veg crops in little planters in my front yard, but the pots I bought had no drainage holes and they spent about six weeks underwater. The flowers and spring onions died but the carrots seem to have just about survived. I decided to try and add some drainage holes but, like an idiot, I stabbed upwards with a Swiss army knife and it immediately collapsed, cutting my index finger knuckle down to the tendon. I've pretty much given up on that project for this year!

My indoor chillies are doing well though, started to get some flowers and I might have to increase the pot size again.

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Lime » Sat Jun 12, 2021 10:54 am

I do stacks of gardening, plus it's my actual job 2 days a week (self employed, I'm not officially qualified but winging it as I go).

A really useful thing for identifying plants is an app called 'Picture this' - you take a picture of the plant and it identifies it (so far it's been very accurate) and with that it gives a load of information. You can get a lot of use out of it for free if you 'cancel' past the subscription section.

I try not to ever use weedkiller if I can avoid it. You can control bindweed by cutting it back to nothing, repeatedly. If you also plant some competing plants it will eventually run out of energy and give up.

If it's over your lawn, raking out the thatch will strengthen the lawn so again it should eventually be overpowered.

If you're planting lawn seed, spread a light layer of compost over the seed so it doesn't blow away, get eaten or dry up all the time. Gently water regularly and in 1-2 weeks hopefully you'll start to see the new shoots. It would normally be a little late for lawn seed really but I'm still going with it in a few places. The weather (and plants generally) seem to be about a month behind where they would usually be, so you can do stuff later than normal and get away with it.

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Skarjo » Sat Jun 12, 2021 11:34 am

Man this site really has aged with me.

Remember when it used to be Falsey telling us about sandwiches he bought walking home from banging one night stands?

Now it's lawncare.

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Slartibartfast » Sat Jun 12, 2021 12:28 pm

Bind weed is tricky to eradicate completely but it isn't such a bad weed really. Flowers nicely, easy to pull by hand and doesn't damage anything other than other plants.

Firstly, know your enemy.
It can regrow from any root section, so anything you pull up, either dry it on hardstanding so it dies or put it straight into the black bin, never into compost.

If you have a particularly widespread plant, you can use a glyphosate weed killer, applied directly to the leaves in the morning or evening with no rain forecast. Lawn weed killer may not work and I'm not a big fan of that anyway - lawns should have a variety of species, not a monoculture of grass.

Mowing will slowly kill off bind weed as it won't have chance to produce leaves.

It then becomes the long term game of removing it when you spot it. It'll never go completely but just becomes an easy game of splat the rat.

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Knoyleo » Sat Jun 12, 2021 1:22 pm

Hot lawn take incoming.
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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Squinty » Sat Jun 12, 2021 1:44 pm

I'm anti lawn because I'm a lazy bastard who can't be arsed mowing it every week.

I used weed killer on the weeds last time and it seems to have worked. Now there are more of the strawberry floaters though.

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Tomous » Sat Jun 12, 2021 1:47 pm

I actually quite like mowing the lawn especially when the sun is out. Put the headphones in, do a bit of exercise and feel good at how much better it looks by end.

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by KK » Sat Jun 12, 2021 1:55 pm

Skarjo wrote:Man this site really has aged with me.

Remember when it used to be Falsey telling us about sandwiches he bought walking home from banging one night stands?

Now it's lawncare.

Pfft, I eat sandwiches while banging them hoes on mega dead lawn (which is the size of 2 football pitches).

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Preezy » Sat Jun 12, 2021 2:11 pm

I mowed my lawn earlier and whilst the dreaded mole seems to have buggered off (or at least not felt the need to surface) there are these random little homes scattered about the place, about as wide as a broom handle. I think they might be caused by bumble bees because apparently they like to burrow and have hives underground. Bloody mole has left the grass in a right state though, strawberry floating dickhead :x

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by BTB » Sat Jun 12, 2021 5:11 pm

Slartibartfast wrote:Bind weed is tricky to eradicate completely but it isn't such a bad weed really. Flowers nicely, easy to pull by hand and doesn't damage anything other than other plants.

Firstly, know your enemy.
It can regrow from any root section, so anything you pull up, either dry it on hardstanding so it dies or put it straight into the black bin, never into compost.

If you have a particularly widespread plant, you can use a glyphosate weed killer, applied directly to the leaves in the morning or evening with no rain forecast. Lawn weed killer may not work and I'm not a big fan of that anyway - lawns should have a variety of species, not a monoculture of grass.

Mowing will slowly kill off bind weed as it won't have chance to produce leaves.

It then becomes the long term game of removing it when you spot it. It'll never go completely but just becomes an easy game of splat the rat.


Ah, I did not know this, I've just been pulling them up then leaving them to die in the sun... Will start putting them in a black bag from now on!

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Vermilion » Sat Jun 12, 2021 8:11 pm

My latest garden additions were a couple of neat petunia plants which i got from the garden centre at RHS Wisley, they've done really well over the last few weeks too.

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Slartibartfast » Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:56 am

Squinty wrote:I'm anti lawn because I'm a lazy bastard who can't be arsed mowing it every week.

I used weed killer on the weeds last time and it seems to have worked. Now there are more of the strawberry floaters though.


Every week? What madness is this?

I did NoMowMay and now do each half of the garden fortnightly. Gives a chance for the flowers to regrow in the unmown half.

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Tsunade » Mon Jun 14, 2021 11:00 am

I don't have a lawn because I live in a flat but I've taken to caring for a few plants and cacti. I've got what my nan calls a money plant growing strong in the living room, and 3 small succulents growing in the bedroom on the window sill getting loads of light.

Seeing this thread has reminded me that they all need watering today :lol:

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Green Gecko » Mon Jun 14, 2021 11:23 am

Knoyleo wrote:Hot lawn take incoming.
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This actually makes a lot of sense in terms of housing.

Yeah we somehow managed to turn lawns into a debate. Oh well.

I don't rent a lawn. Mine is a conservatory, kitchen and wc and I'm thankful for it.

strawberry float mowing the lawn anyway. Plus, cats prefer meadows, and happy cats are a better addition than lawns.

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Skarjo » Mon Jun 14, 2021 11:45 am

Owning the floor to own the libs lower classes.

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Drumstick » Mon Jun 14, 2021 12:08 pm

We have a nice sized rear garden. It's artificially turfed and looks wonderful, particularly as I got the leaf blower/sucker out yesterday.

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by OrangeRKN » Mon Jun 14, 2021 12:10 pm

Drumstick wrote:artificially turfed


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May as well concrete it over

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by BID0 » Mon Jun 14, 2021 12:48 pm

Team artificial. Haven't had to mow or water the lawn for over 5 years now and I never want to do it again :datass:

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PostRe: Lawns and Gardening
by Dual » Mon Jun 14, 2021 1:20 pm



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