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Tildes Gardening Group: Week 18/5/26

Posted by Chiasmic
Tags: gardening, ask.discussion, recurring.biweekly, gardening group

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

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  1. Chiasmic
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    @nukeman @vord @zenon @crialpaca @Aran @thecakeisalime @tyrny @pekt @rosco @dustylungs @lackofaname @neonbright @monarda @tanglisha @Esteebestee @mimic @Zenon @lynxy @monarda @gourd @sparksbet...

    @nukeman @vord @zenon @crialpaca @Aran @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!)

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  2. Requirement
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    It's finally consistently warm enough here in Midwest America that I can get my plants in the ground.... the only problem is that now I don't have enough time to get them in there! I sense some...

    It's finally consistently warm enough here in Midwest America that I can get my plants in the ground.... the only problem is that now I don't have enough time to get them in there! I sense some night-planting in my future.

  3. thecakeisalime
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    Spent the long weekend tidying/weeding the garden beds and planting vegetables. The local squirrel population didn't dig anything up overnight, which I hope is a good sign.

    Spent the long weekend tidying/weeding the garden beds and planting vegetables. The local squirrel population didn't dig anything up overnight, which I hope is a good sign.

  4. tanglisha
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    Some stuff happened that pulled me away for several weeks, so I’m scrambling to catch up. I’ve got corn and tobacco in soil blocks that are way too small, but potting them up feels like about the...

    Some stuff happened that pulled me away for several weeks, so I’m scrambling to catch up. I’ve got corn and tobacco in soil blocks that are way too small, but potting them up feels like about the same amount of effort as filling their beds. So I’ve been lugging sand, topsoil, and my local biosolids fertilizer. At least I’m sore in the right places!

    Before all that I discovered a colony of non rhododendrons growing inside a rhododendron canopy. I trimmed it up into a more tree like shape, and it was even worse than I thought. I found:

    • Eight baby oak trees that were mature enough that I couldn’t pull them
    • Several good sized English holly plants (invasive here)
    • About 500 tiny English holly plants (hence the invasiveness)
    • Several cherry laurel trees with trunks big enough that I couldn’t cut them with pruners
    • A cherry laurel with a 3”/7.5cm trunk
    • Several English hawthorn - I didn’t realize they’re called that because of the thorns
    • One single bleeding heart. That was the only thing in there I was happy to find

    If it isn’t obvious, this is a very mature rhody. It’s tall enough to partially block a second storey window.

    I got an electric reciprocating saw last year and used it for the bulk of the non tiny plant cleanup. Highly recommended, I got a lot more done in one afternoon than I would have expected.

    Also quack grass is everywhere, it was even growing up into the previously mentioned canopy. I thought I had a handle on it a month ago. I did not.

    Edit: I didn’t find any birds nests, but it’s obvious they hang out in there. No baby birds were harmed in the destruction of these weeds.