Horticulture: How/Who to Feed Your Audrey II

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What type of plants are you interested in growing? This poll is closed.
Perennials!	142	20.91%
Annuals!	30	4.42%
Woody plants!	62	9.13%
Succulent plants!	171	25.18%
Tropical plants!	60	8.84%
Non-vascular plants are the best!	31	4.57%
Screw you, I'd rather eat them!	183	26.95%
Total:	679 votes

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cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I've pulled up a bunch of turf putting down a patio, I've got 3 bulk bags and the soil that came up with the turf is fairly nice, I don't want to pay to dispose it so I was hoping to use it for a raised bed next year. What can I do to it to kill off the turf leaving me useful soil next year?

# ¿ Aug 11, 2016 15:27

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 16:58

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Yup, and yes I suppose I am composting it. It's already piled upside down so I'll keep it moist and in the dark, thanks.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2016 16:42

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

My wife has been talking and researching these a lot lately, consensus seems to be just plant it out and let it stabilise. Slow work though, might be a couple of years before you get more than a couple of leaves.

# ¿ May 8, 2017 18:48

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I've a little succulent on my desk at work, recently they moved us all now I've little to no natural light and it started to grow really tall with pale green much smaller leaves, I surmise it's seeking better light, would one of these led grow lights make it happier or are they junk?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XDBJ4H2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_WGSgzbPNACCPJ

I was going to put it on a timer so it's on at night, I can't imagine it'd be nice to work with that purple light in my eyeline all day.

# ¿ May 16, 2017 10:40

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

~~Rake before you mow or get down on hands and knees and start pulling it up.~~

E: retracted because others know better

cakesmith handyman fucked around with this message at 17:28 on May 21, 2017

# ¿ May 21, 2017 17:16

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Commiserations. Kill all the little bastards.

# ¿ May 23, 2017 14:20

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

There's also covering it in black plastic, but unlike cardboard you have to take it up when you're done.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 20:10

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

cheese posted:

Me too! I got a liquid calcium supplement last week and it seems to have stabilized them as new tomatoes look clean.

I've been looking for a quality balcony solution for our new apartments patio. It has a 1.5" rectangular metal railing and I can't find anything at Home Depot/Lowes or local gardening store that is designed for metal railings. Ideally I would like to fill the whole 8 foot patio and be able to put legit heavy planter boxes/pots across the entire thing. Since I want to put it on the outside of the railing, its really important that it is sturdy and overbuilt since a pot falling onto the walkway below would be really bad. Not adverse to spending a couple of hundred bucks to get something versatile and well made.

Not sure what you mean by "legit heavy"exactly but searching Amazon for "balcony planter" gives loads of trough/basket results, some of which say in the details that they'll fit 1 3/4" rails

# ¿ Jul 24, 2017 10:19

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

How the hell do you kill lavender? :psyduck:

I should send you some of my strawberries, I had to butcher 50% of them and they still send out runners like crazy.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2017 10:27

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Reformed Tomboy posted:

The one in the back right kinda hiding out is very easy to transplant. I've cut off branches on mine and they've done just fine. I put them straight into a new pot and made sure they had extra water for a week or two.

Edit: Assuming it's the same as the big one in back of this image.

Question! Does anyone know what the heck this thing is? I've found them, of various sizes, on my plumeria all season. This one was about half an inch long. I remove and/or kill them, but what are they? It hardly matters now because this one was on the plumeria's last leaf, but still.

Plumeria's trying real hard to get this last bloom open before hibernation. I'm not sure it will.

Bonus:

I'm sure that's a ladybird aphid, don't kill them?

# ¿ Dec 3, 2017 14:15

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Make a decent paper or SketchUp plan I agree. Count on replacing that shed as it's had it obviously, then think about paths to your summer house and back gate, you don't want to be sludging through the dog tracks for those. The back of your neighbors garage looks like a great place to start growing some big gently caress off Clematis up. Do you plan to have a fruit/veg plot anywhere? If you do I'd raise existing beds to keep the dog out.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 15:19

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Judas Horse posted:

Never really got into scrapbooking (as much as I like making bullet point journals). I like the greeting card idea a lot though, thank you!

My grandma used to press flowers, she'd do 3 things with them, 1 was make books of the local wildflowers with multiple pressings, notes, descriptions and stories then occasionally sell them. 2 was make these awesome multilayer frames with layers of different pressings in front of a tiny watercolour (courtesy of my grandad) so it was like one of those old Disney animations with the 3d effect. Third was to amass a giant collection and occasionally sell half of it. I don't think she needed the money she just likes collecting better than keeping. :3:

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 19:40

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

kid sinister posted:

Clay in general is a pain to amend. It's too drat sticky to itself. Its hard to bust it up small enough to get it to mix finely.

I tried sieving some of our soil when the moisture content was appropriate, I gave up after about 2cuft, as soon as you touched the resulting clay granules they glommed back together into protopottery. I'll just plant potatoes and manure.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2018 12:43

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Ashex posted:

Not sure what gash means in this context

Terrible.

# ¿ May 12, 2018 21:55

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I need some plant id help please:

Large flowering bush, trailing stems coming over the fence, flower clusters are about 1-1.5" across. We're in the UK.
E: already asked the neighbor, he's no idea.

# ¿ May 25, 2018 17:15

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Garden fence question, we have a border the dog loves to trample through, my wife is constantly fighting an arm's race of protecting key points and certain plants but we've had enough and we're going to fence the whole border off, I'm sure this will result in the dog destroying something else but hey.

Anyway, I'm going to use 50*100 mesh and 40mm angle posts. This will be adequate to keep the dog out while blending into the foliage enough, but we want to be able to fold sections of the mesh down to access it for actual gardening. Any suggestions on how to attach the mesh to the fence so that it's secure but it won't be too much of a hassle to disconnect?

# ¿ Jun 4, 2018 10:10

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

TheDK posted:

Not sure what this is but it sure does look great climbing up our pergola!

Definitely a Clematis, there are a billion different ones but I can tell you we've got at least one that looks just like yours, it's called sunset.

Speaking of which I want to get my wife another Montana Clematis, she wants a white one. Any recommendations?

# ¿ Jun 7, 2018 07:08

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I've never succeeded in harvesting a leek, as you say the flowers are pretty though.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2018 21:11

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

cakesmith handyman posted:

Garden fence question, I'm going to use 50*100 mesh and 40mm angle posts. This will be adequate to keep the dog out while blending into the foliage enough, but we want to be able to fold sections of the mesh down to access it for actual gardening. Any suggestions on how to attach the mesh to the fence so that it's secure but it won't be too much of a hassle to disconnect?

If anyone's interested, I bolted eyelets to the posts and left legs protruding from the end of each mesh panel to hook into the eyelets.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2018 18:59

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Hubis posted:

I would legitimately love some "French Breakfast" radishes. My wife was making a recipe that called for them specifically (thanks, Ottolenghi ) and we were both like " right, radishes it is". It'd be neat to have the real thing. Also, I am pretty sure purple carrots would blow my toddler's mind.

Protip, let your kids have a hand in choosing what to plant/grow and you'll be amazed at what they end up eating. Also weird coloured versions of normal things are automatically awesome.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2018 08:54

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

learnincurve posted:

I am aware of the dullness of the above photo because they are all young or not in bloom but for the purple one so here’s a couple of my pretty ones, third one in the set that is red with pink stripes isn’t in bloom yet.

Those are stunning, but you can't eat them so I'll leave that sort of gardening to my wife :v:

# ¿ Jun 21, 2018 17:17

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

So where I sit in our office gets too little natural light to keep succulents alive, will those survive? Because if so I'm on it.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2018 07:48

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Someone back in the thread had a banana plant or cheese plant or whatever that was just massive, that grew up and along rather than down. Anyone know what I'm babbling about?

# ¿ Jul 23, 2018 11:48

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

MikeTheCoolOne posted:

Monstera deliciosa?

https://www.houseofplants.co.uk/plants/monstera-deliciosa_swiss-cheese-plant_72918.html

They can get ginormous.

That's it thanks.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2018 15:27

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

There's always the NASA clean air plants study, great to use as an excuse to buy another plant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study

# ¿ Jan 11, 2019 18:22

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Yeah but it's still a great excuse to buy more plants

# ¿ Jan 11, 2019 22:45

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Nosre posted:

Anyone have thoughts on planting stuff in unlined brass (or bronze, maybe) containers? They're some cheap ones I got in a yard sale, so I'm not concerned about the metal itself, but plant health.

Only thing I can find is potential to burn roots from heat/conductivity, which would not be a problem inside.

I don't know if it'll cause any harm but you could line the inside of the pot with some spray sealer or something similar?

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 09:34

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I saw patio fruit trees mentioned a while back, any fertiliser recommendations? I'm in the UK and I want to give my tiny little gala apples a decent chance.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2019 13:20

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

What are gourds used for if not edible? Just ornamental?

# ¿ Sep 21, 2019 09:39

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

It's a good time to plant garlic in the UK.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2019 17:40

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 16:58

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Platystemon posted:

In general, when rooting cuttings, you want to cut them down to a single leaf or even a part of a leaf.

Otherwise they’ll dry out before growing enough roots to support the leaves.

You won’t be able to stick the top half of the stalk in dirt or water and keep it.

So, semi-serious post, could you take the top half off that plant as a couple dozen cuttings?

# ¿ Jan 5, 2020 11:55

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