Gardening, the simple metaller's simple pleasure

[Bigmac]

Delighted with the garlic harvest. 45 great bulbs out of only 5 square feet.

It's my first time overwintering them too, seems to have made a big difference. Ended up with some monsters.

[mugz]

you'll be garlic mad now for ten days. almost everything is improved by it.

compared to garlic from a supermarket it's like tasting it for the first time 

[Trev]

Anyone got any cherry trees? My parents and inlaws both have one and I've never seen them with such a good haul. Got about 8 kilos just from one branch, don't know if it was the really warm spring or what the reason is, but I'll be having them in breakfast for months

[mugz]

Anyone got any cherry trees? My parents and inlaws both have one and I've never seen them with such a good haul. Got about 8 kilos just from one branch, don't know if it was the really warm spring or what the reason is, but I'll be having them in breakfast for months

there's almost no way to discover why some years you get no fruit, some years you get loads but wasps eat it all, and maybe once a decade it all lines up and you get loads of fruit, no wasps, and everything makes sense.

this applies to plums, apples, and pears too.

[Bigmac]

The harvesting is pretty decent at the moment.

[Kurt Cocaine]

I'm looking forward to veggie curries/stews by the campfire man. 

[Kurt Cocaine]

Class job. Your tomatoes must have been tunneled? Ours haven't turned red yet, they're outdoors.
The lettuce were the biggest ever. Like a hedgerow.

[Bigmac]

Yeah I have a pretty old and battered tunnel, but it does the job.

Really got the hang of pruning the tomatoes this year, so I think that helped. The beefsteak are absolutely delicious.

I've a load of mad lettuce on the go too, the cut and come again stuff is great. I ended up planting way more than I need, but the chickens are mad for it, so the extra bit goes to them.

[livingabortion]

Vinegar and salt mix is a great D.I.Y. weed killer if needed.

[Cailleach]

Does anyone have any tips about controlling Japanese Knotweed? I sprayed roundup on the leaves a couple of months ago, the result was the leaves started to fall off  and they stopped growing. Should i cut the stems and spray into the cut area before they  wither for the winter?

[Kurt Cocaine]

Does anyone have any tips about controlling Japanese Knotweed? I sprayed roundup on the leaves a couple of months ago, the result was the leaves started to fall off  and they stopped growing. Should i cut the stems and spray into the cut area before they  wither for the winter?

Do not cut it. That's why you see those 'Japanese Knotweed: Do Not Cut' sings on the road side. Repeat doses of herbicide over a couple of growing seasons is the best way to treat it.

https://www.thejapaneseknotweedcompany.com/how-to-kill-japanese-knotweed/

[Cailleach]

Does anyone have any tips about controlling Japanese Knotweed? I sprayed roundup on the leaves a couple of months ago, the result was the leaves started to fall off  and they stopped growing. Should i cut the stems and spray into the cut area before they  wither for the winter?

Do not cut it. That's why you see those 'Japanese Knotweed: Do Not Cut' sings on the road side. Repeat doses of herbicide over a couple of growing seasons is the best way to treat it.

https://www.thejapaneseknotweedcompany.com/how-to-kill-japanese-knotweed/

Thanks for the link. I 've never actually seen those signs   I  watched a  you tube video that said you should cut them close to the ground, then spray roundwood into  the bit of stem that remains, but i will go with your advice and the advice  on that website.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Does anyone have any tips about controlling Japanese Knotweed? I sprayed roundup on the leaves a couple of months ago, the result was the leaves started to fall off  and they stopped growing. Should i cut the stems and spray into the cut area before they  wither for the winter?

Do not cut it. That's why you see those 'Japanese Knotweed: Do Not Cut' sings on the road side. Repeat doses of herbicide over a couple of growing seasons is the best way to treat it.

https://www.thejapaneseknotweedcompany.com/how-to-kill-japanese-knotweed/

Thanks for the link. I 've never actually seen those signs   I  watched a  you tube video that said you should cut them close to the ground, then spray roundwood into  the bit of stem that remains, but i will go with your advice and the advice  on that website.

Good explanation in the video in this link...

https://conservationdogsireland.ie/our-vision-and-work/

[jobrok1]

I know knotweed is a particularly invasive yoke... but I would personally only use roundup and herbicides as an absolute last resort.
Most of them should be banned or at the very least only allowed to be used by licensed companies like the crowd linked above.

[Bigmac]

That satisfying time of year again: