Re: The gardening thread

[The Call of the Wendigo]

I have been doing my front, back and side lawns today.

My side lawn was about 10% grass and 90% animal droppings. What's up with them? Do they have some kind of bowel disorder?

[Butterfield]

My side lawn was about 10% grass and 90% animal droppings. What's up with them? Do they have some kind of bowel disorder?

Same here. Especially a couple of weeks ago the lawn was covered in fox.... "pieces". It hasn't been quite so bad this week for some reason, with just one... "piece" to be found today.

[Butterfield]

Upon entering the garden two days ago I was greeted by a large dead bird on the lawn, feathers scattered everywhere and a mutilated body in the middle of it all, covered in flies. I couldn't face picking it up by any means so left it to see if nature would take its course.

And today I walked onto the lawn and saw that the body had vanished! And some of the feathers too.

[Butterfield]

I forgot to mention that upon the remaining clump of feathers was a fox "deposit".

[cosmictanya]

I think you should just stay inside from now on. This all sounds quite unsettling.

[Fangirl Three]

Foxes got no respect for the dead.

[Nightjar]

Brian May taken to hospital after tearing buttock muscles while gardening

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/08/brian-may-hospitalised-gardening-injury-tears-buttock-muscles

Brian May's b*ttocks, yesterday

[Fangirl Three]

 Torn bottomed girls you make my gardenin' world go round

[cosmictanya]

Rose stem cuttings placed in a potato and planted - does it work/is it true/has anyone here done it?

I see that garden centres are one of the sectors being opened. Decent roses are not cheap enough to buy as you browse other things, and not expensive enough to say 'f*ck it, I'll have that as long as the card isn't declined'.

I thought I might pop along to a garden centre with a discreetly concealed pair of kitchen scissors, and pick up a bag of potatos on the way home.

[cosmictanya]

Does anyone know how Brian is? I haven't seen any updates. I read that Covid-19 is best treated by lying the patient on their front, so hopefully he can get both trials out of the way in one go.

[cosmictanya]

If it's not meant to be, the card will be declined. That's my financial motto.

Strictly before any opportunity for decline, it's always worth quietly asking for a discount. Friends* tell me of their embarrassment that I do so even in Tesco and TK Maxx, but more often than not the discount is forthcoming.

*What would they say if they knew I call restaurants, bars, and clubs in advance to have my own consumption completely underwritten or substantially reduced if I agree to bring X number of paying customers through their door rather than the door of a competitor.

Financial tips du jour in these tough times. I would appreciate any reasonable responses on the roses.

[cosmictanya]

[cosmictanya]

Just as well my iPad battery died there. I was coming on to two top tips on how to get free stuff from department stores.

Anyway, the rose in a potato?

[cosmictanya]

Good god, I must stop posting such things after champagne.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

I'm still trying to work out who Brian is.

[cosmictanya]

Brian May, of the injured a*se. A gardening accident, so that section wasn't totally irrelevant to the thread.

[Helium]

Bought one of these to tackle the neighbour's two overbearing Leyland cypressesesses



Gonna attempt to (partially) paint the brick wall that faces directly opposite my front garden/house. It's a random, and an unpleasantly turgid brown colour (instead than the more pleasant red brick you find around the neighbourhood) and it's quite low quality too, so it's constantly crumbling, especially during the winter. The upside is that it has revealed a rather lovely orange tone and texture underneath so those parts I'll leave alone.

Paint colour-wise I'm gonna go in the direction of something emulating a copper-patina/copper green oxide, or jade green colour. Still undecided as to whether I'll go for something more vibrant or more sedate in hue though. Yes, I know it sounds a bit out there, but I'm not one to settle for just 'magnolia' or 'Cornish Cream' for shades.


I also currently have about >50 tomato, courgette and green bean seedling and saplings chilling on my kitchen window sill and counter. A couple weeks and they'll be big and strong enough to go outside

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Bought one of these to tackle the neighbour's two overbearing Leyland cypressesesses

I've got one of those. They're awesome.

[Fangirl Three]

I've got my work cut out keeping the potatoes and strawberries watered.

[Helium]

GArdening and galavanting around the yard is my thing now, so I do enjoy even the more mundane stuff these days too

That said I did plant those seeds thinking the majority wouldn't take. Turns out I overestimated the failure rate, so if I'm lucky I'll just have to give some of them away.

I've got one of those. They're awesome.

Can confirm

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