How does your garden grow?

[SpookySpooder]

Lol. Look at this carrot.
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Funniest carrot I ever seen

 

[The Spider House]

..... With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row.

Another nursey rhyme
Mary had a little lamb she called him Illy Ollocks, she threw him up in the air and caught him by his.....



.....Tail

 

[aprilmayjunebugs]

It's almost that time again!
My little weed garden survived the only one ice/snow event this year. I'll be sad to see it go.

 

[DomGom TheFather]

I'm putting up a greenhouse this year, I guess.
I was gifted one of those cheap polycarbonate jammers. I don't know how it will hold up but I started assembling what I could in the basement while it's still dead winter.


Otherwise, stuck in the seed box stage.

 

[DomGom TheFather]

Garlic's on the rise.

Eggplant under lights.

Finally got around to that greenhouse.

 

[Smotzer]

Garlic's on the rise.
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Eggplant under lights.
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Finally got around to that greenhouse.
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Great start to the season!

 

[DomGom TheFather]

Great start to the season!

I wanted so badly to start potatoes for Saint Patrick.

 

[aprilmayjunebugs]

My peer pressure plant has arrived!


Doesn't look too bad for having been in a box for days. I have questions though, I ordered inoxia.

 

[DomGom TheFather]

You'll run into a lot of confusion around Daturas.
What's in a name?..

 

[aprilmayjunebugs]

First flower on my weed which no one shall pull unless they want to never be spoken to again.

 

[DomGom TheFather]

It's only a weed if you don't want it there.

Might have been a tad early on the aubergines.

Melons are up.

 

[aprilmayjunebugs]

I cannot get over how cute these baby Toothaches are.

 

[Charliemum]

OK gardening peeps I need some help I have a large corkscrew Hazel in my front garden it's been there 20 years and has always been happy in its spot covered in orb weavers, but today I noticed brown/red lumps all over its branches. So I snapped a small branch with 2 on to get a better look and try to remove the lumps. I haven't seen anything like these before and assumed they were hardened sap the tree was leaking for some reason.
To my surprise when I pulled the lump burst and was filled with eggs ! There are easy 100 of these things on my tree and I have tried to Google it but I mustn't be writing the right thing because I can't find anything like this.
I live in the North East of the UK if it helps but I was hoping maybe someone on here may know or has seen them before.
I feel incredibly guilty because it was an egg sac and if I had known i wouldn't of touched it.

 

[Charliemum]

After alot more digging turns out they are Eulecanium tiliae or the nut scale as they are commonly known. They are parasitic bugs that hold the eggs underneath them and live off the sap in the tree by burrowing into it. I must admit I feel a bit better knowing I didn't just destroy some butterfly's eggs, but thought I would update as I found out what they are thanks anyways

 

[fiendish foe]

I bought 4 plants I was told were jalapeños and 3 have grown bell peppers while the 4th one bears nothing. I’d feel cheated if I wasn’t a fan of stuffing peppers.

 

[Westicles]

I bought 4 plants I was told were jalapeños and 3 have grown bell peppers while the 4th one bears nothing. I’d feel cheated if I wasn’t a fan of stuffing peppers.

Nothing wrong with stuffed bell peppers, but yeah, I'd be aggravated as well. Nothing fun about not getting what you paid for

 

[fiendish foe]

Yeah, that’s something that could also be a lot worse since I found out they’ve also in the past accidentally labeled Trinidad scorpions and habaneros as Cajun belles. I couldn’t imagine the horror of a new hobbyist biting into what they think is a moderately hot bell pepper and getting a mouthful of habanero.

 

[Wolfram1]

Is any one of you practicing permaculture in your garden?
If so what are the ups and downs you have experienced?


I am thinking of mulching my small shaded big city garden with wood chips, in order to build up a forest-like mycorrhiza and to soften the compacted soil through an increase of microorganisms. And later plant some of the wild groundcovers like wild garlic, violets, lily of the valley, snowdrops, etc.

If any of you have any experience with this in your own garden/land I would love to get some of your experiences.

And has anyone had to deal with english ivy taking over? I dont think we have any grass left, not that i mind that, but how do you get rif of ivy in fafour of a mix of other understory plants?

Here is a quick look at things now:

i still need to finish the stone path, and after that i may work on a small bird bath and feeding station, though i need to think of a way to avoid the crows taking over.

As summers get hotter, i'd like to make the garden better for birds and insecsts as well as improve soil life.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

After alot more digging turns out they are Eulecanium tiliae or the nut scale as they are commonly known. They are parasitic bugs that hold the eggs underneath them and live off the sap in the tree by burrowing into it. I must admit I feel a bit better knowing I didn't just destroy some butterfly's eggs, but thought I would update as I found out what they are thanks anyways

I have issue with these too on an olive tree. :-\

 

[Charliemum]

I have issue with these too on an olive tree. :-\

My plan is to go out and try and pick off as many as I can with tweezers and hope it helps control the population. I do know there are chemicals for them but I don't want to use chemicals I have never used them in my garden and don't want to start now.
I feel horrible about it but my Hazel took years to grow and I love it its a good 10 feet tall now and was only a foot when I got it. I don't want it to die because of these bugs.
I may try ladybugs too, apparently they will eat the young killing off the population but it takes a while and a lot of ladybugs.
Hopefully between me picking and the ladybugs eating they will go away.
Might work for your olive tree too .