Spring and summer 2014
 

A place to post your gardening adventures and other warm weather minutiae after a very brutal winter.

Yesterday I completed a battery repair on my lawn tractor and got 'er fired up to cut my grass. That's when I discover that two of the tires have no atmo in them. The only air pump I have available is one that plugs into a car cigarette lighter power socket. So I tried to bring the tractor around the house to where my truck is parked and dagnabit I rolled two tires off of their rims in the process. Removed the rims from their axles to cart them to an air station at a local gas hole. One of the rear tires was popped off the bead and the air compressor at the gas hole was one of those automated jobbies that couldn't force the bead back on the rim. So I did the next best thing...
Went in the store and bought a can of starting fluid. Sprayed it into the void and lit it. POP! The tire was remounted in an instant.:up: Returned home, remounted the wheels to the axles...
It starts raining.:wah:

I want to kill my garden asap without chemical or biological products any ideas?

A gardening thread, lovely :)

I got about 20 seedlings of different kinds of chilli and a couple of seedlings of tobacco. The tomatoes, basil, bell pepper I'll buy next week.
There's still a cold front here and I'll wait until Monday when nights are warmer than 1'°C.

The trees I planted in autumn are all rooted in successfully, the pears might grow a fruit this year.

The neighbours horse is providing me a steady supply of manure and I produce my own fetrillizer from stinging nesttles.

That's easy. Just use fire and it'll be dead in no time.

Not sure the neighbors go for that one...

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Fire engine please a crazy neighbor has set fire to his garden..:har:


OK slight change to the question...WEEDS DAM WEEDS.

Had my front garden laid with patterned concrete (cobblestone design) a few years ago and at great expense.

In the meantime I'm contemplating the rear of the prperty which is at least three times the size...the wife is getting a bit weary of being the only gardebner in the family.

I just took down my Christmas lights. :har:

Also put battery in lawn tractor and fired it up. It's a miracle. It started without using any voodoo or obscene language. Lawn is getting green but not ready to cut. And a sure sign that summer is comin'. The first cruise ship of the season arrived today. :sunny:

Gave the front and back lawns their first cut. Damn grass was tall enough to lose a badger in. There are some flowers on the dwarf apple tree for the first time, the dwarf plum tree is in full leaf but not flowering yet, the olive tree is still surviving and there are signs of the first bunches on the grape vine. All I have to do now is keep the bloody starlings from stripping the vine bare when it's in full fruit. Last year I lost 15-20 bunches of red grapes to the little sods! Any ideas?

When the weather gets drier I'll start planting seeds in the veg strip and potting up a tomato plant, chilli plant, pepper plant and growing herbs.

:sunny:

WHAT!...I have given mind five cuts now. :stare:

It's raining...so that's summer sorted then. :yeah:

Swallows have started nesting down on the sea front, earliest I've seen them.

Bear in mind Tango didn't say what he cut the lawns with...

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http://homeguides.sfgate.com/use-vin...ler-49329.html

Apparently salt and vinegar solution works as a permanent solution, plus any left over can be sprayed on your chip supper! :up:

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Man that is a lawn mower. :)

Thanks I'm going give that a spin. :up:

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:har:

I think I need something a bit more police-friendly! Maybe a frame with netting around it will do the trick.:hmmm:

Nice one...me too (or should I have said the wife) :sunny: