So what are people's thoughts on using wood chips for weed suppression? I've heard that fungal decomposition sucks nitrogen from the surrounding soil, plus the nooks and crannies can provide ideal habitat for plant-nibbling pillbugs. (This is not my plot.) #CommunityGarden #garden #gardening #weeds #mulch #fungi #woodchips #nitrogen #pillbugs #woodlice #allotment
There's nothing more unpleasant than removing weeds from wire fencing at the community garden. So I maintain a healthy border on the perimeter so it doesn't come to that. In my head I refer to it as the DMZ. #weeds #weeding #allotment #garden #gardening
Dug a new pit at the vegetable plot for on-site composting of weeds. Will bury the victims after a week or so, then will plant lima beans. #compost #composting #weeds #weeding #allotment #garden #gardening
I love this entirely wild patch at the front of the garden. Everything, apart from the shrubs, is self-sown (or was already here when we bought the house). I do not do anything apart from cutting it down once a year in late autumn. At the moment, the #bluebells are flowering.
Unlike the rest of the garden it is visible from the road. I am certain that some uninspired people think it is an uncared-for weed patch.
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The #coltsfoot is out! It lives in the sandy areas alongside our road. I was so startled when we first moved here - what were these #dandelions doing out so early??
But they aren’t dandelions. The flowers do look different if you examine them closely, as do the stems that hold them up. Plus, the leaves don’t even make an appearance until the weather has warmed up, and those don’t look anything like dandelion leaves at all.
Does anyone know which #pollinators come to these? Our vernal miner bees aren’t even out yet, as far as I can tell.
I helped a fellow gardener weed her plot for a few hours last year, and today she left me a bottle of wine as a thank you. Hidden in my weed pit, of course. #CommunityGarden #allotment #weeds #weeding #gardening #wine #alcohol
Comfrey in the stumpery. Sourced from a drift of self-sown comfrey elsewhere in the garden.
The bees love it but they were camera shy. I overheard them talking: “Oh. it’s him again with this thing that goes click. Looks like a giant eye. Very suspicious. Better wait and come back when he’s gone”, they said.
Dug up some weeds today at the plot and left them to desiccate on a bucket for a few days (some have extensive roots). I like to display them, in part, as a lesson to other weeds that might be thinking about germinating (just don't). In a few days I'll slide them into the nearby pit of despair for eventual burial. #GrowYourOwn #garden #gardening #allotment #weeds #composting
walked along train lines and oh buoy it's weed central (⊙_◎) #weeds #weedsofmastodon
To rid your garden of common mugwort you have to dig it up and remove the long rhizomes from every clump. It took me two years of hard work to eliminate it. Now other gardeners say, "Oh, you're so lucky that your plot doesn't have that weed." #garden #gardening #weeds #mugwort #allotment
Weed pit in my plot at the community garden. After it's full I'll top it off with soil and start another one. Keeps the garden tidy and over time becomes organic fertilizer. I know this is likely boring to most but I've noticed that many of my fellow gardeners throw their garden refuse onto the paths between plots. #gardening #allotment #weeds #compost #composting #garden
New Post From Cliff's Vernissage
Day 72 of the #365in2025 challenge.
Spring isn't too far away!
#365in25 #Flower #Bloom #Weeds #Spring #ComingSoon #Photography #iPhonePhotography #iOSPhotography
View on Vernissage https://vernissage.photos/@CliffWade/7481407686135777429
Thick plastic sheeting breaks down, too. And the plot owners at my community garden rarely bother to pick up the hundreds of little pieces that are left ... because they cover it all up with a fresh layer of plastic. #garden #gardening #plastic #mulch #weeds #vegetables
If anyone is considering polypropylene landscaping fabric for their vegetable garden, here's a visual of what happens. After just one season it begins to disintegrate, and shreds will be blown onto neighboring plots where they'll continue to break down into ever smaller pieces of plastic. #garden #gardening #weeds #weeding #plastic #mulch #microplastics #CommunityGarden #VegetableGardening
A self-sown #Prunus in the privet hedge at the front has been #flowering for several days. It is full of bees and other early insects.
Finished with the next, and final, project for the day. I’m exhausted. Cleaning kikuyu grass from around the bananas is an epic struggle. The stuff is tenacious. Then I cut off the bad bananas leaves to chop them up for some fertilizer/compost around the bananas. Next time I clean the chicken coop that goes down around the bananas also.
#RNZ has a good article on planting weeds in gardens then selling them. Casual sales of garden plants by gardeners is an important way that weeds move about the country, and it’s difficult for regional council Biosecurity staff to keep on top of. Just because a plant is pretty doesn’t mean it’s safe to sell. You can learn what plants are on #iNaturalist and check their status on WeedBusters NZ.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/541782/backyard-nurseries-spreading-pest-plants-in-southland
