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Post by rezello on Jul 19, 2020 9:38:48 GMT
Ah here we are (nicked off rightmove) we had to knock out the retaining wall because when it rained it was a lake! We’ve since built a conservatory so the patio is nowhere near as big ...
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Post by rezello on Jul 19, 2020 9:34:22 GMT
I managed to almost murder a hydrangea, i fried it in full glare of sun, so in desperation i took a spade to it.... what i mean is i dug the bugger out and threw it under another random bush, and its revived! in fact its happily growing it must like a bit of shade then? Then i saw the fern was a blackening mess so i got a massive HUGE spade and prized it out (it took me laying on lawn grinding my teeth to heave it out whilst viciously chopping its roots apart) and you know what? its liking living behind bushes and is glowing over being shaded? frankly I'm amazed! The only job 'him indoors' tackles (very sporadically) is lawn mowing, and of course the dog has peed all over it, burnt the grass and its pathetically patchy but TBH neither of us mind because fore mentioned dog is ancient and really thrilled-happy to have his own grass that its rather sweet to see his joy (whilst intermittently trampling down my flower beds) I can hardly shout at him I'm starting to feel like a rescue center for deformed plants as everything I've bought is twisted, stunted and very very cheap so i will give them a shot and by pure luck they seem to be grateful for the chance to grow except the dahlias that are slug fodder OH! and all my grow your own veg is now latticework p.s saying prayers for 'Trev' Oh wow it looks amazing your a natural at this...we had nowhere open for plants near me for quite a while and having three young kids and having to work opposite shifts from partner made it tricky getting out and about to find any I totally get what you are saying about the dog wee ours used to do the same when we did have some grass that’s another reason I gave up with it. my garden looks tiny for the picture but it’s not this small in reality It’s slow progress, we have been here 3 years and spend most of those three buggering about with the grass but at least now we dont have to now and can put our time money and effort into other parts of the garden. I will try and find a before picture of how the guy We bought the house off had it excuse the messy looking summer house we tried to tint the windows to hide all mess but failed miserably!
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Post by rezello on Jul 18, 2020 10:12:33 GMT
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Post by rezello on Jul 18, 2020 10:09:11 GMT
I think perhaps we ought to have a ' Show us your Garden ' thread!
The before and after if you've transformed your outside space - whatever that may be . . . . or a garden that's your pride and joy, even if it needs some work.
Mines a bit embarrassing at the minute but yeah I’m up for a bit of garden stalking
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Post by rezello on Jul 18, 2020 10:07:51 GMT
I feel your pain! I'm also googling gardening and i never thought I would EVER utter 'Monty Don says....' This is my first year with a garden (after 3 decades of having a yard) I can't say it was very imaginative when we moved here, a lawn with border around? the only plants were set 3 foot apart and the type that grow from nothing/flower/then die off leaving bare earth - very grim! I think I've rammed 30 plus new plants in? all from the sale section in various stores and garden centres locally. Lock-down has proved oddly convenient for me as they have a surplus of plants and selling for pennies so I snapped up loads. I'm absolutely clueless and have tried to focus on evergreens and 'stuff' that hangs about through winter, even if they are plain and boring its better than bare beds! Quite a few plants weren't even labelled so its pot luck what i'm growing! Later on i'm planning a small pond (as frogs eat slugs) because the slugs here are vicious and I've taken to wandering about in the dark wearing a head torch and flinging them into the next field. I bought some wooden troughs for the gravel area because it looks a bit like a graveyard so I've slammed bench/swing-seat/chimney pots with flowers and lots of tubs with colour to cheer it up. Now the butterfly's are laying eggs in bulk on my first attempt at homegrown veg I've been picking caterpillars off too..... I cant put out slug pellets as I've a dog ( who enjoys lurching through the beds crushing plants underfoot.....) its a good job nothing planted cost more than a fiver as they need to be hardy to survive my ineptitude and his bulk cracking through the undergrowth (dog, not me!) I've bought beer traps but it seems a waste of good ale...... But it is rather wonderful having outside space Omg this gave me a good laugh this morning! You’ve been bloody busy! We had to replace this gardens grass with fake. Hate fake grass at the best of times but no option as I have tried year after year and failed miserably at getting that perfect grass as the drainage is so terrible here. Probably something to do with it being a new build and onto car park land so it was never going to be beautiful fertile soil underfoot so now I am not wasting time on the grass I can concentrate on the borders. Admittedly I went for the most expensive money can buy and pleased I did because it really doesn’t look fake thankfully. I have one border that’s full of well established fucias (or however it’s spelt) and hydrangeas both of which as extremely hardy and come back year after year bigger and bigger and are beautiful to look at. i have another that I’ve gravelled as it’s the kids swing and climbing frame side. It’s got a couple of pathetic plants dotted in but nothing I’m going to cry about if they get pulled up by the kids! I’m just after a few “structural” hardies for the other side now as I have most of my plants in it such as hot lips, acers and hydrangeas and a few others I’m not sure what they are called though. Best of luck with yours it actually sounds like you know what your doing more than me ha ha it’s trial and error, gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette!
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Post by rezello on Jul 17, 2020 10:21:57 GMT
Thankyou...I thought it was an easy straight forward ‘what could go wrong?’ Kind of job....unfortunately it’s not untill now that I am finding out how many things I did wrong with it 🤦♀️. I will look at the composition of the compost, I think it was miracle grow from the supermarket ... OOps - that should of course read magnolias DON'T like an alkaline soil - hence the below 7 ph value. Have edited the original post and given myself a talking to regarding carefully reading what i've typed before posting The miracle grow stuff is usually 6.0 to 6.8. Not ideal but definately not going to hurt Trev in any way. Ha ha that’s fine I did get that! It was actually Bord Na Móna Growise Multipurpose Compost. No idea of ph value as it’s not written on the bag and I can’t find out on the internet either 🤷♀️
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Post by rezello on Jul 17, 2020 10:18:49 GMT
He's . You've ripped him up and put him in a strange environment (to him). His leaves have lost their energy because he is now needing his strength in his roots to adapt. He will come back next year. What you could do is scratch the bark (gently!)in about 2 or 3 weeks to see if it's still green. I repotted a small fig tree but managed to rip off half its roots. It looked dead for ages but then sprouted leaves and now seems quite happy at about a foot high. Don't be tempted to bin him. Would it help if I deleafed him like you would deadhead other plants ?
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Post by rezello on Jul 16, 2020 13:10:56 GMT
Thankyou...I thought it was an easy straight forward ‘what could go wrong?’ Kind of job....unfortunately it’s not untill now that I am finding out how many things I did wrong with it 🤦♀️. I will look at the composition of the compost, I think it was miracle grow from the supermarket ...
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Post by rezello on Jul 15, 2020 23:38:00 GMT
I am actually getting home grown shopping bags on the sides of my legs...diet is needed pronto !!!
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Post by rezello on Jul 15, 2020 23:31:27 GMT
A bit of advice needed please....
I’ve had to pot Trev the magnolia sapling (2years old).
Admittedly I didn’t know what I was doing, I grew this chap from a seed...planted him in a boarder and he grew and grew untill my other half made me pot him amid fears that he would grow too big for the garden we have, so I went and bought a huge pot (more than sufficient for his size which he grew to about 6ft). I pulled him up quite easily although I did split one of his main roots but only by about 2cm but I thought he was a big boy so could handle it ok. I popped him in his well drained pot ( a good few inches of gravel topped with a whole bag of compost) however within 2 hours his leaves all drooped bar the very bottom branch which his leaves are still there and in fairly decent shape 4 days later however the others have all dried up on the same day I replanted him....
please will someone tell me if he will come back or is he a lost cause...I don’t want to give up on him but at the same time I don’t want a dead tree waiting around if he is not going to recuperate...😟 any advice is most welcome 🙏
I didn’t think to replant him with any of his own soil from the boarder, only that that was stuck to the root which wasn’t a lot 😞
I feel like a terrible tree mother at this point and I can’t seem to find much off the internet 😢
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Post by rezello on Jun 15, 2020 20:58:08 GMT
If your a bit diy inclined and have a techy bent look for wifi enabled cameras that can stream a rstp feed that you can then record on any NVR (network video recorder) you point at the stream such as a raspberry pi. the wyze cam is a popular option £30 and you can buy a housing for a tenner or so to mount it extenaly too also check out this option.. Thankyou this looks promising il take a look 👀
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Post by rezello on Jun 10, 2020 18:13:50 GMT
I’m after a relatively cheap but effective outdoor cctv set up and was wondering what you guys have or can recommend.
It must have a decent recording capacity built in without having to purchase hard drives and sd cards separately etc.
It must have decent night vision.
Ideally I would like this to link to my Alexa show so I can pull up front of house images and garden easily.
It should be relatively easy to install (I don’t want to go into complexities of rewiring my whole house!).
I am also looking for a complete setup with at least 2 cameras included unless of course the price is right and they have the options available to purchase extra cameras (I don’t want to have to run a whole new search for the correct compatible camera just to complete the set up)
Any help is much appreciated and links would be great thanks in advance 👍
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Post by rezello on May 23, 2020 23:04:13 GMT
So anyway...has anyone else been effected by the corona two stoner or is it just me? Blowing up like a balloon here! And I dont even have the excuse that I’m home all day just jumping on the eating and drinking bandwagon
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Post by rezello on May 4, 2020 20:54:36 GMT
Thanks guys. It wasn’t a quiet affair....3 young children made sure it was just as chaotic as any other day ha ha but still it was a fun day and filled with lots of love as always 😊
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Post by rezello on Apr 4, 2020 0:10:09 GMT
THANK YOU and all your colleagues rezello , you have a job from hell and as you say the very least we can do is properly follow the guidelines. Bless you and Thankyou for your kind words. I think if we could actually see the virus, no one would go out. Support one another as best you can and if you are a key worker, shop for your loved ones so they dont have to take the risk. And Thankyou to all the other key workers out there, it isn’t just the drs and nurses, it’s carers, lorry drivers, food retailers, school workers, teachers, post workers, the astounding military, vital services such as the refuse collectors and many many more risking their lives everyday to keep us going. Bless you all and stay safe X
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