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RE: GARDEN UPDATE: APRIL EDITION - Around the Grounds in the New build pandemic garden - MEGA POST

in HiveGarden2 years ago

Oh wow, those pavers were really under all the weeds! It's looking so clean a pretty now. I'm in awe of the effort you've put in to cleaning them and the stones up as well as making your own soil. How did you find the time!?

We had a bird of paradise palm when we moved in and wanted to turn the area to veggie growing. They say that as long as you keep removing the leaves, any plant will die eventually. It took at least two years for shoots to stop coming through! The same with a rose bush we removed.

BLACK BLOODY PLASTIC MATT

Lol! It's not that woven stuff is it? I still find strings from that today when I'm digging and it's been years! It seems it could have been worse, though, recently someone shared some photos and asked how they could remove disintegrated carpet that had been used as weed matting. The base fibres had rotten away, so it couldn't be pulled up in one piece any more and there were synthetic fibres everywhere in the soil. The solution seemed to be to remove a whole layer of soil. The lesson here seems to be NEVER use carpet as weed matting.

Love the selfie. You should enter this into this month's Garden Journal Challenge. I've done the countdown wrong, so it is still open. I'll be wrapping up on Wednesday.

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 2 years ago  

oooohhhh what is the challenge... ive been trying to find it.. lol.. apparently did a bad job looking this morning.. lol.. where is it i will go and look!!

Yes the pavers were under all the weeds. and i had to scrub with a brush for AGES to get them to scrub up like that. lots of elbow grease and sore fingers. ha aha

no the weed mat is the THICK BLACK stuff. No oxygen and no water gets through it is hideous. Like black plastic bags but thicker. Vile stuff. kills all soil in sight. not the breathable stuff. (that is in the front garden and bad enough)

as for the selfie i took a few, but when i reviewed them there was too much boob showing lol.. this was the only one at a low enough angle not to be from a garden porn journal... lol

i love bird of paradise, we don't have any though... its just a shame the previous owners planted everything on a jolly retaining wall.

 2 years ago  

Lol! You even commented on it!
https://peakd.com/hive-140635/@minismallholding/time-to-share-your-gardens-in-april

Perhaps the garden porn journal could be your project: The cleavage edition. 🤣

 2 years ago  

ooohhhh i thought that was an older post... and not still running?? let me go back and check.... I thought it was a NEW one from after that.

lol... I shall go and take photos in the flowers... lol

If i get bitten by a centipede or something dodgy i won't be impressed.. lol..

I'll go and see what i have in the garden :-) :-)

will post soon

 2 years ago  

Right @minismallholding lol... i have posted a garden selfie post... lol... my daughter helped me take them :-)

https://hive.blog/hive-140635/@blingit/garden-journal-the-selfie-edition-just-wine-ing-in-the-garden here it is .... lol