How does your garden grow?
“Well, not very well since I put that complete spack Tina in charge – she’s killed all my plants!”
Gardening
The simple Euphorbia has a lot to answer for. A few years ago, some friends gave me a sample to put in the garden after I’d asked what was good for areas where there’s not much sunlight; I was given some euphorbia cuttings.
I started digging up some of the border and weeding and stuf, to clear space for the new arrivals. That was about5 years ago and I feel as if I’ve not stopped weeding yet.
I was out in the garden today; cleared a load of weeds and lots of grass that grows in the borders from the lawn roots that grown under there. It was extremely warm and was glad when I finally gave up after three hours in the full heat of the day.
But then I had to do it. I had to ruin all my hard work for the day. There’s this plant thing that is quite effective, but has slightly taken over where it lives. So I decided to split it and put a portion in the border that I’d just cleared. I don’t think it liked having its root system hacked with a spade: neither of the two halves look particularly happy. Dead in fact:
So yes, that’s what I did today – broke my garden.
Ill-heath and the gardening Cakesniffer
Don’t believe what anybody tells you about gardening being good for your health, it’s a load of crap being spouted by the Church of the Seventh Day Titchmarshes.
First off, it makes you nervous wreck because you’re always concerned about being attacked by stinging insects and evil spiders or sucked to death by fucking slugs. Some of the things you find in the soil and beneath rocks would make you sick – straight out from a science fiction horror film. As a result, I have to wear a full biological warfare suit when in the garden, just in case one of these bastards touches me and infects me with its 0/6/8/100 leggedness.
Eeeeewwww!
I always get sunburnt when I garden. It can start off a nice cloudy day, then the next thing you know is you’ve lifted your head 3 hours laters, only to find that you can’t because the sun’s come out and you’ve burnt the back of your neck to a crisp. I’ve also burnt my arse crack and my forearms, but not my hands because I always wear gloves. It’s a winning look: bright red arms and white hands!
Fainting. I always lose track of time and forget to eat until it’s too late: I’ll stand up from a kneeling position and, after overcoming the pain in my neck and ears from the sunburn, I’ll feel faint and have to drop to my knees again. It’s quite difficult to stand when you’ve got all over body shakes and trying to get a signal into the house for somebody to bring emergency pastry supplies is almost impossible.
Immobility. I won’t be able to walk tomorrow and my shoulders will have stiffened up too.
So take it from me, gardening is rubbish.
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Pest control in the perennial garden
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One of the many advantages of growing perennials is the ability of these beautiful flowers to return to full bloom season after season. While this ability to bloom repeatedly is one of the things that makes perennials so special, it also introduces a number of important factors into your gardening plan. One of the most important of these is a proper pest control regimen.
While a garden full of annuals starts each season as a blank slate, the perennial garden is essentially a work in progress. The fact that the plants stay in the ground through winter makes things like proper pruning, disease management and pest control very important. If the garden bed is not prepared properly after the current growing season, chances are the quality of the blooms will suffer when the next season rolls around.
One of the most important factors to a successful perennial pest control regimen is the attention and vigilance of the gardener. As the gardener, you are in the best position to notice any changes in the garden, such as spots on the leaves, holes in the leaves, or damage to the stems. Any one of these could indicate a problem such as pest infestation or a disease outbreak.
It is important to nip any such problem in the bud, since a disease outbreak or pest infestation can easily spread to take over an entire garden. Fortunately for the gardener, there are a number of effective methods for controlling both common pests and frequently seen plant diseases.
Some of these methods are chemical in nature, such as insecticides and fungicides, while others are more natural, like using beneficial insects to control harmful ones. While both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages, many gardeners prefer to try the natural approach first, both for the health of the garden and the environment.
There is an additional benefit of the natural approach that many gardeners are unaware of. These days, it is very popular to combine a koi pond with a garden, for a soothing, relaxing environment. If you do plan to incorporate some type of fish pond into your garden landscape, it is critical to avoid using any type of insecticide or fungicide near the pond, since it could seep into the water and poison the fish. Fish are extremely sensitive to chemicals in the environment, especially with a closed environment like a pond.
As with any health issue, for people or plants, prevention is the best strategy to disease control and pest control alike. The best defense for the gardener is to grow a garden full of the healthiest, most vigorous plants possible. Whenever possible, varieties of plants bred to be disease or pest resistant should be used. There are a number of perennials that, through selective breeding, are quite resistant to the most common plant diseases, so it is a good idea to seek them out.
Happy gardening,
Stan
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