Re: Hanging baskets and raised beds advice please.
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
->
Best of luck SG.
I set up three raised bed for the veg patch this year along with some grow bags for potatoes and beans/peas. But I didn't realise how much soil they would need. Bag and bags of compost. Such a lot of work to fill them. But they are great because the snails and slugs just can't get in and I've put netting on top too which helps. I've found two snails so far get stuck in the netting trying to get in but their shells are too big!
Thank you Annie, I know!! it's all paying out at the moment, but I think it's worth it because I expect to get lots of enjoyment watching them all grow, (I hope!)
With the soil, I know it's a huge outlay, but then I think, it's only once for bags and bags of soil. after that, it will hopefully just be the one sack kept in the shed and put on with a hand trowel!!
I did actually read something about the bloomin slug problem. I am saving all my egg shells in a container to sprinkle around the plants as apparently slugs hate them. Also I am going to put ground coffee down as well as they hate it.
I will certainly take note of your tip about the netting. When do you put the netting on Annie? is it in the evenings when you are going back indoors? silly question I know.
Thank you for that tip.
Primus, Thank you - good to know my cheap as chips little greenhouse will be ok for the bedding plants. Must admit, never heard of horticultural fleece!
The plants I've ordered so far are:
Geraniums Best Red
Begonia Evening Glow (Red & Silver leaves)
Several different colours of petunias
Daphne in yellow and orange
Lobelia Midnight Blue and Blue Monsoon
Snowtopia
Alexanders Great
and half a dozen Hostas.
I know I will need more plants but still stuck onworking out height etc.
so not going to rush just yet. I will have more time to plan once I know for definite.
I'm certainly having fun preparing for it though. I bought a smallish wooden wheelbarrow with bright yellow handles, yet another one to buy soil for!!
Kazz, I love Geraniums too, and I prefer a block colour with one contrasting colour. I will be buying some later, but I haven't the room to keep them for 3 weeks at the moment, I'm already worrying whether my cheap as chips mini greenhouse will hold all I've bought already!
Thank you for the tip about the leaves and watering. I've made a note in my book. xx
JBR, bless, thank you. and thank Marge for any tips gratefully received.
Realist.Thanks for the advice. Already tried that with no luck! I even went in search of small gardens being paved, and put in the measurements etc. The websites idea of a small garden certainly differs from mine!! I didn't have any luck. Their "small garden" was three times the area I am working on. I had fun looking at the gardens though.