Garden whinge

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noticed there was no garden whinge:
have an offering: ;D

1. snails : the only reason why garlic, butter & parsley were invented
2. hail stones : don't you just hate them, tell me one good reason why they should exist?
3. unpredictable weather : how do you make god laugh ?
tell her your' plans.
4. don't you wish you could have the name dolittle, and just talk to the d*mn animals that
pee & pooh, slither, gooh, express themselves, congrugate and dessimate your plants
5. and as for aphids, darned commi bugs, where's the n*palm
No6 is up for grabs ;D

[Ruthie]

6. Bindweed!!!

[farmersboy]

Twitch grass

[Deleted]

bindweed, mmmh, no6 it is,
bloody bugger,
witch pagan devil thought of that one?
you snap it grows
you pull it,
it sows,
you tie it in a muddle,
it grows
you confuse it,
as much as it knows,
it will grow,
splice it and dice it
but still the silly bugger,
grows ;D
howsat??

[Deleted]

twitchgrass? who knows?

[Deleted]

ok, twitch grass it is
think of world war one
in the trenches,
with a gun,
twitch grass is not no1,
let's see how far you,
can run,
with the twitch grasses
up your B*M ;D

[Deleted]

SEEM TO BE HAVING A POETIC MOMENT
DO FORGIVE

[Shrubrose]

Mare's Tail would be mine

[andy]

If we're talking weeds, hairy bittercress, ivy leaved toadflax and groundsel are the bain of my life.

Slugs....can destroy years of hardwork in an evening.

Cats....spraying up everything

[Barbara]

squirrels digging up all my hard work

[Plocket]

Good thread SSandra!

My winge is bl**dy wild garlic - I loathe the stuff and doesn't it just know it!!! And slugs - grrrrrrrrr!

[Deleted]

dear plocket, what has a wild garlic ever done to you ?
bless

[Plocket]

It's trying to take over the garden!!!!!

[prodigal gardener]

Ooooo Barbara, Squirrels are the bain of my Mums life - they are a bloody nuisance in her garden. For me it would be that stuff with the little yellow flowers that smells like wee. I think its called cellandine ? its a pain in the bum Oh and flippin blackbirds chucking bark mulch all over the paths. Grrrrr

[Dutchy]

Next doors decision to presure clean their pavings on a wonderfull lazy sunny Sunday.

[snowowl]

Not having a big enough greenhouse

[Deleted]

Neighbours free ranging chickens !!%&*$%^£!!

[Rosefriend]

Now then ....where do I start.....think you might regret this SS.

Standing at the front of the house, I will start with the neighbour on the left who is the lesser of two evils.

He is a great person, young and loves walking around half dressed and is bone idle in the garden. We are surrounded by trees and in autumn we are literally under a foot of the damn things. He hasn't moved one - just waited until the wind was in the right direction and we got them all.

Then he likes brambley things - raspberry, logan....any berries - and they must be draped on my fencing which my roses don't appreciate. He also thinks that you should fertilise the whole garden with at least 4 bags (2kg's each) of high power fertilizer and although he mows the lawn, the side are never strimmed and the grass seeds fly into my garden ...weeds. He also has decided to buy 4 trees - 2 cherries went in last year and another two whatever's this year - all far to big for the small garden.

So onto the other neighbour.....he doesn't get rid of any leaves either - again waits for the wind to send them to us. His whole front garden is full of ground-elder which is the bain of my life and I have sunk 50cm slabs upright into the earth to stop the stuff getting through again. He never sweeps the snow away in winter which is law here - has to be gone on the pavement for 7am. - guess where someone would fall...yep - glad that we are insured.

He has bushes on his terrace that he has let grow to nearly roof height as he says that he doesn't want any sun going into the house - that means that we do not get the early morning sun on our terrace anymore. Ivy is trying to get through our fencing all the time.

His meadow is mowed once a year after I beg him to, by which time the grass seeds are all in my garden and I spend hours weeding. I use high powered weedkiller just to keep the worst out. It is haven for half the German slug population and I used 4 packets last year in just keeping them down very slightly in numbers.

He has had 2 massive birches, a sycamore and a cherry tree taken down so that he can park his car and his horse wagon in the back garden - no problem if we had high fencing as in the UK but here it is often low - ours in only 90 cms high - so that means we see the damn car and trailer all the time.

To top it all he plays the horn and on a lovely quiet summers day he starts blowing his trumpet - quite literally.

Oh yes and the whole neighbourhood is full of cats - well I like cats - infact I was a cat owner in the UK, but I hate cat poo all over my garden.

I love gardening but I would love to garden just for me and not continually have to get rid of other people's rubbish.

RF

[snowowl]

RF

[Amo]

Why is it when you wake up with your gardening head on, everyone and everything gets in the way of getting out there!

[Tig]

Just what I needed a garden whinge!!
Potted up the Hedychium Aurantiacum (it had started to shoot and put in on the top shelf of the mini-growhouse. Thought I should dampen the compo so got it back out (nice and warm) gave it a light watering, put it back ... SHELF COLLAPSED!! Pot, ginger and compost all over the place
The shelves are now wired in so they can't budge again - still spitting feathers though!
Tig

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dear tigs hope the feathers have settled
bloody hail stones, hate them hate them!!!!!! put some seedlings outside, cosmos, sunflowers, nastursiums etc etc.
what do you know, little jack frost made rupert the bear weather whilst i was shopping came back,dessimation
lost nearly half the trays, am not happy want a greenhouse,now, weathers crap here, rain, hailstones no light, wish i could move
into the eden project ;D bloody hailstones......

[Shrubrose]

Know how you feel SS. One lesson I've learned though, is never trust the weather at this time of year in good old Blighty (most times of the year actually!!!). Thank God for my GH. Get one when you can. Lovely to stand in it and hear it bucketing down, thinking 'ha, ha, you cant get me or my littlies!'

[Auricula]

Winter flowering heliotrope / bindweed / snails / mind your own business - I wish it would!!!

[JennyWrenn]

Oh dear you all have some major garden whinges - my very small one seems nothing in comparison

CLAY SOIL - have lost lots of lovely plants that have been drowned when the rain doesnt seep into the ground but stays on the top like a mini lake

Have used topsoil to break it down - it doesnt work - I dont know how deep it goes

[Shrubrose]

<ahem> have you heard of a 'spade' Jenny? ;D

[farmersboy]

Apr 16, 2008 5:52:29 GMT JennyWrenn said:

Oh dear you all have some major garden whinges - my very small one seems nothing in comparison

CLAY SOIL - have lost lots of lovely plants that have been drowned when the rain doesnt seep into the ground but stays on the top like a mini lake

Have used topsoil to break it down - it doesnt work - I dont know how deep it goes

Ive told you before,dig some lime into it,it will help to break it down.
Do you want me to come and do it for you ;D

[Deleted]

jw, put all your old leaves, or anyone elses on the soil, pee on it, where
there is a lack of lime, give it lots of humous, use a straw mulch, if not fb
will come and kick some clay *ss ;D, hey ho ......

[Missredhead]

my whinges are squirrels and leaves......

The squirrels are always digging up my bulbs and pinching the food meant for the birds and the leaves are never ending.....I'm still sweeping them up, my two neighbours either side don't bother clearing them up so they all blow into my garden...Grrrr.

[andy]

I put my night scented stock, allysum and sweetpeas outside on sunday with the theory that they are HARDY anuals and won't mind it too cold.

Cue very hard frosts.

Think i've lost the stocks but allysum and sweetpeas look sad but ok

Luckily it's not too late to sow some more