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Tildes Gardening Group: Week 3/5/26
Welcome all to our fortnightly (ish) gardening group discussion!
Feel free to discuss anything related to gardening, beginner or advanced, challenge or success.
Ive moved it to a fortnightly thread, as sometimes gardening can be a bit slooooowwww motion
@nukeman @vord @zenon @crialpaca @Aran @pistos @thecakeisalime @tyrny @pekt @rosco @dustylungs @lackofaname @neonbright @monarda @tanglisha @Esteebestee @mimic @Zenon @lynxy @monarda @gourd @sparksbet @patience_limited @arctanh @Zorind @TheInflatableKayak @Akir
(Let me know if you want me to stop pinging you!)
I came in from the garden this morning and found a tick crawling on me. I've never had to do tick checks before but here comes the new normal, I guess. How do I get my hands on an opossum... Anyone else now having to deal with challenges they didn't used to have?
And this is the first year I am putting down some tick tubes, in addition to spraying some vet best tick spray on the lawn. I just became a new mom and really terrified at the aspect of my baby getting a tick/lyme/all of the other diseases.
Hard part is that everywhere around has ticks, so I should do tick check often as well as applying picaridin when I go out. Also, lint roller on clothes helps to get the small nymphs on your pants.
I’ve moved it to fortnightly.
My plants are doing great! So many have sprouted and grown more than expected, my raspberry bush in particular is going to break containment soon. Some have failed- weirdly the salad leaves and the sunflowers which I thought would be the easiest.
Done some tidying up in general. Next task is to get the new trellis up- moving from plastic to wood. Not sure about the expandable or fixed trellis- anyone got any experience?
I bought a galvanized steel planter box to put flowers in. Do I need to put a liner inside it to protect the steel from the dirt and/or the plant roots from heat (the planter will be facing south)? If so, what material should I use?
My wife planted some bulbs a couple of weekends ago, but it was cold again last weekend (no frost, and not below freezing, but pretty close) so we still have quite a few sprouts in the aerogarden we’re waiting to plant outside until it maybe actually will stay warm.