Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Hanneke Nov 2023 9:12am, 7 Nov 2023 114,009 posts	0 Hanneke Old manure better than fresh... Do you worm your horses? If so, the poop needs to rest for at least a year... Also, potential aminopyralids in the hay they eat need breaking down for at least a year, preferably longer...
Fizz :-) Nov 2023 9:18am, 7 Nov 2023 8,351 posts	0 Fizz :-) Monty Don always says you should bury the graft? We had a rose we dug up and essentially abandoned in a bucket for a year. It’s doing marvellously now in its new spot
Fizz :-) Nov 2023 9:19am, 7 Nov 2023 8,352 posts	0 Fizz :-) Oh, my leaf mould collection has started.
Fragile Do Not Bend Nov 2023 10:03am, 7 Nov 2023 11,748 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend I don’t prune my roses the way you are supposed to and it’s worked for me so far Whenever I deadhead, and it’s the only or last flower on the stem, I prune the stem down at the same time.
Ocelot Spleens Nov 2023 10:08am, 7 Nov 2023 38,124 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens It is so wet I cannot get out there. I would poach the ground.
Ocelot Spleens Nov 2023 10:09am, 7 Nov 2023 38,125 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens Pruning. I wait until a decent frost, go very hard, but we still get frosts up North
Dvorak Nov 2023 11:04am, 7 Nov 2023 27,304 posts	0 Dvorak My garden has some old roses which have stretched up: there are currently a couple of blooms around seven feet from the ground. Mind you, other bushes have died off. I did notice in the Tollcross Park rose garden, all the bushes get pruned very far down, below a foot probably?
Dvorak Nov 2023 11:27am, 7 Nov 2023 27,305 posts	0 Dvorak Inspired by Eynsham Red, I raked over a neglected corner of the garden, got some chicken wire and bamboo stakes, et voilà - my leaf pile.
EvilPixie Nov 2023 11:30am, 7 Nov 2023 48,488 posts	0 EvilPixie what's the best way to empty a darlek? just try and lift the whole thing up? is it worth trying to sort some decent stuff out or just bin the lot and start afresh? I think that some pots were emptied in there (so mainly soil) and then there is shredded paper and we used to get "compostable" bags for kitchen scraps only to find out that they are only compostable in commercial composters!
Hanneke Nov 2023 12:59pm, 7 Nov 2023 114,011 posts	0 Hanneke Sounds like a "start again" scenario Pix. Soil kills the heat in a compost bin, so do not add any! Those "compostable" bags have a lot to answer for... 😬