Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Markymarkmark Oct 2019 8:24pm, 20 Oct 2019 9,901 posts	0 Markymarkmark Oh, forgot to say... Pumpkins! MrsMMM has been converting sooner of them into soup whilst I've been running today. Pumpkin pie tomorrow!
Columba Oct 2019 9:01pm, 20 Oct 2019 18,562 posts	0 Columba Ordered some cyclamen hederifolium.
Hanneke Oct 2019 10:44pm, 20 Oct 2019 70,410 posts	0 Hanneke I love cyclamen! I should order some as well... to plant under the hedgerow. Regarding the yellow raspberries: I think they are wild ones. Although they are near-ish the fruitcage with the summer and autumn red ones in it, I suspect a bird has dropped a seed.
Garfield Oct 2019 8:33am, 21 Oct 2019 11,153 posts	0 Garfield Yes, there is the natural seeding thanks to birds...completely forgot about that!
Cerrertonia Oct 2019 8:46am, 21 Oct 2019 11,246 posts	0 Cerrertonia I've spent a good few years trying to get cyclamen to naturalise in the garden. For some reason they have really taken off this year and I have hundreds of them in flower at the moment.
Velociraptor Oct 2019 8:47am, 21 Oct 2019 43,558 posts	0 Velociraptor Has anyone here any experience of building a loggery? I'm having flights of fancy about a miserable little dry patch of thin soil over builders' rubble at the front of my house. I'm thinking, clear the weeds, put membrane down, scavenged logs, bark chippings and judicious planting might work.
Velociraptor Oct 2019 8:51am, 21 Oct 2019 43,559 posts	0 Velociraptor (We're also looking at doing more extensive work round the back - proper drainage, and lots of hard surfacing if we can do it without increasing our neighbours' flood risk. At the moment we're just muddling by avoiding having a total jungle.)
Dvorak Oct 2019 10:02am, 21 Oct 2019 18,113 posts	0 Dvorak What about a moss lawn? They used to be A Thing, but seen off mainly I think by the quest for manicured neatness. Fantastic soakaway and i heard it claimed the other day that 12 sq m of moss can sequester as much carbon as 275 trees. The speaker was advocating that people stopped with all the lawn weedkillers and let the moss grow. I do have one semi-moss lawn and, I'll admit, it has seen the weed and feed. Apart from a couple of bits which were probably overdosed, the moss has thrived. Incidentally, raking out old moss is quite the workout Which seems an extraordinary figure, and I haven't checked up on it yet.
Velociraptor Oct 2019 10:06am, 21 Oct 2019 43,562 posts	0 Velociraptor Moss lawn is our default at the back. We also have reeds and seaweed on the lawn. The miserable patch has been left untended this summer and has grown willowherb and thistles, but no moss. I'd quite like something I could walk on without squelching, at least for part of the year.
Dvorak Oct 2019 10:27am, 21 Oct 2019 18,114 posts	0 Dvorak You are well on your way, then :-). Seaweed, gosh. You could make it a feature. I presume you are not looking at artificial turf? Which is how someone I know sorted their permanently squelchy back lawn. Natural/artificial hybrid? It is used for sports turf, for example Hearts laid it at Tynecastle, though not sure how available it is for domestic use heartsfc.co.uk