Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Hanneke Mar 2020 8:13pm, 24 Mar 2020 70,529 posts	0 Hanneke Flatlander you will now find they are on a takeover bid! It took a couple of years for mine to establish, but now they have taken over! I keep chickens and put their muck into my compost bins. It is a great compost accelerator and by mixing it it isn't too ''hot'' after a year of composting.
jacdaw Mar 2020 8:35pm, 24 Mar 2020 2,891 posts	0 jacdaw I failed to grow proper raspberry canes, but spend hours pulling out wild ones from the flower beds.
Flatlander Mar 2020 9:32pm, 24 Mar 2020 1,605 posts	0 Flatlander Yes, Hann, that's what I found when I uncovered them - they've spread!
alpenrose Mar 2020 7:20am, 25 Mar 2020 43,352 posts	0 alpenrose I've had an email from the council suspending collection of the garden waste bins until further notice. I haven't managed to lift a finger in my garden yet.
Angus Clydesdale Mar 2020 7:48am, 25 Mar 2020 17,177 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale I’m not convinced there’s much difference between wild and tame raspberries.
Markymarkmark Mar 2020 8:19am, 25 Mar 2020 10,936 posts	0 Markymarkmark They've not even restarted the garden green waste collections this year here yet!
Angus Clydesdale Mar 2020 8:31am, 25 Mar 2020 17,178 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale We stopped getting our green 'waste' collected when the Council started to charge for it. We’re lucky enough to have space for compost and other stuff to linger in various corners, we’ll out of sight. And some of it provides good habitat; the wrens love flitting about in the Leylandii trimmings pile.
Dvorak Mar 2020 8:58am, 25 Mar 2020 19,316 posts	0 Dvorak About 40 years ago here, a couple of neat lines of raspberry canes were planted. They grew strongly and stayed fairly neat for three or four years, then started a progression around the garden. I did deliberately move a few, as there were so many. The original area died back mainly and the raspberries were now in a line, 90° and around 10m from where they started. I bought some new canes and planted them in the first area but they never took, think there was reversion virus. Sometime on the way, I bought some yellow autumn rasp canes. They're now here and there and doing ok, but the fruit is much inferior. A spindly cane appeared on the shady side of the greenhouse - I let it grow and now I have four decent canes, nearly the last survivors of the original "proper" rasps. And where the original canes started all those years ago, there was a fairly strong growth of new semi-wild canes last year. I'm going to try and train them back to the wire fence which was put in to support the canes all those years ago.
Rosehip Mar 2020 12:25pm, 25 Mar 2020 15,424 posts	0 Rosehip I had to get dog food and also collect a veg box from the farm shop for a self-isolating neighbour. Whilst I was there I thought about getting some different veg seeds. Stupid idea, barely a pack left, apart from celery. Lots of packs of flower seeds though. Never seen anything like it! Wonders if all the people who have panic bought cabbage seeds know how long it will be before they're cooking them?
Eynsham Red Mar 2020 12:39pm, 25 Mar 2020 5,478 posts	0 Eynsham Red I’ve notice this morning that the bind weed (convolvulus) is beginning to make an appearance in the borders. Does anyone have any tricks to rid the garden of this, or is it just a case of pulling it out and basically just living with it?