What's going on in your garden (2018-2022)?

[Lullabelle]

This evening I spent over an hour and a half putting in all the new plants we bought on Sunday then gave them a thorough soaking.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Coriander leaf

• Yorky
• 16 Mar 2019

This bunch cost me around 20 UK pence.

That would be around 80 UK pence here. Not too bad.

Here in AUS that's around $3 (everything is pretty much AUD $3 unless it's in the hard plastic containers for items such as Dill or tarragon. AUD $3 is equiv to £1.60-£1.75.

 

[rascal]

How big are the bags? Coriander in bags or pots from the supermarket isn't very expensive here. But I suppose you might mean gigantic bags.

Small sandwhich bags. Shop bought bunch are around $6 .

Russ

 

[Morning Glory]

Good grief! That's over 3 times the price it is here.

 

[Lullabelle]

This evening I mowed the back lawns, not perfect but looking better. I couldn't be bothered to trim the edges or do any weeding, it was too hot besides it wait for another time.

 

[rascal]

This evening I mowed the back lawns, not perfect but looking better. I couldn't be bothered to trim the edges or do any weeding, it was too hot besides it wait for another time.

I get a guy in to do my lawns, cuts and removes clippings and does weed trimmer as well for $25. Cheap as chips.

Russ

 

[Lullabelle]

I get a guy in to do my lawns, cuts and removes clippings and does weed trimmer as well for $25. Cheap as chips.

Russ

It is a job I enjoyed doing.

 

[Morning Glory]

I get a guy in to do my lawns, cuts and removes clippings and does weed trimmer as well for $25. Cheap as chips.

Russ

I do too (I have a vey long lawn) and he also does general tidying, weeding - in fact almost anything I ask in terms of gardening. He charges £10 an hour - that is about $20 in NZ money.

 

[rascal]

I do too (I have a vey long lawn) and he also does general tidying, weeding - in fact almost anything I ask in terms of gardening. He charges £10 an hour - that is about $20 in NZ money.

About the going rate here as well. The guy last time here was here 20 mins.

Russ

 

[Lullabelle]

A couple of weeks ago I planted a mix in our front garden, they are growing nicely along with the bulbs planted even earlier, thing is, I can't remember what bulbs were planted, some of them look like pineapple heads

 

[Lullabelle]

Just mowed the front lawn and did a bit of weeding

 

[Mountain Cat]

Last year I planted asparagus. Five of the six plants are coming up, and one is sending up double stalks!!! Not picking this year, alas... oh, temptation!

Oh, there's the garlic mustard. It's an edible invasive, but I was so mad to see it I just yanked ever bit I saw. Threw out with the trash - composting it will just encourage it.

 

[Lullabelle]

On Tuesday a friend gave us 2 chilli plants, I have just planted them and taken some cuttings from the camelia and planted those

 

[Lullabelle]

This afternoon in our back garden was a lovely cat, never seen it before so friendly, our neighbours cat was also in our garden as ours watched from a distance.

 

[Morning Glory]

taken some cuttings from the camelia

Can you explain how to do that - my friend has a Camelia that is on its last legs but has some growth and buds coming out. The rest is dying off so it could be worth taking a cutting in case the whole thing dies.