The first rule of potting shed is YOU ALWAYS talk about potting shed. The thread continues.

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Here goes, and feeling bit cheeky as I didn't post much on the last one.

A fine autumn day here, with much seasonal clearing done. Now I come to think of it, is there ever a non-clearing season? :o

I think knit is a clump forming one as saw it in situ, I am a bit wary though....

Mirabelle - that just sounds so selfish of the neighbours - sounds like a very deliberate ploy to get more light into their house, while disadvantaging you. Could you put up trellis and a fast growing climber until everything else fills out/gets tall enough? Definitely some tall hedging or trees now . I love potager gardens, sounds like a good plan.
MrsBert - not yet- all pricked out and hardening off, but still very small. The wind battered them to death yesterday, even in the sheltered bit I have for them. ( I did plant out peas that I germinated in pots at my allotment though - they are fine)

Thanks BookBook . The problem is it needs to be 8 foot tall to even reach the trellis annoyingly. He doesn't even flaming we'll live there. I was too upset to speak to him when he trying at one point and I think he realised he has potentially upset things for his very elderly parents. I'm trying to leave them out of it as they don't need it. He even told me that they are old and not likely to be around for more than another couple of years, nature would fill the gap eventually so be patient and suck it up.

When pointed out we could now see all their washing from our window which assumably included his pants (I didn't look closely) he did have a moment of doubt I think. After that he got a bit more open to resolving it and had said he will review it in September. I should point out that they have a 6 foot fence further down at a point where we have relinquished vehicular access giving them a substantially bigger garden. And had the nerve to say they had put up with people going past for 30 years - they bought it like that. And he said I was rude when I might have got a bit previous to that when he suggested I reread my Architect drawings . Sorry , might still be a bit wound up

Mirabelle have you thought of a Laurel. They grow quite quickly, can be shaped, come in variegated types and are cheap.

I was thinking big shrub, in pot standing on breeze blocks.

Thanks JTB I am thinking about Laurel in pots on the wall ledge for now . There is a big laurel at the end of the section which does a great job but it could do with being about 10 foot wider ! Also been eying up my Celematis Jingle bells which is now about 5 or 6 foot and wondering if that could useful.

I have just noticed a lovely little shrub growing on our side, amongst next doors Leyllandi hedge. I think, am hoping it's a philadelphus.
I'm currently cultivating anything that appears through the hedge!

Gosh , he sounds a right pain !
I am back indoors, slightly sulking. I doubt anyone remembers, but we broke a fork recently. The shop very kindly took it back ( 6 years old, and company had gone out of business) . We chose a new fork , they gave us the value of the old fork towards it. Out today in the garden, ruthlessly digging up bluebells ( they are everywhere, a right menace) - when one of the tines ( stainless steel) of the new fork snapped and broke off.....Dear Lord, I am not that strong. There doesn't seem to be anyone making a decent fork these days , unless you sell a kidney for one .

Good lord bookbook. What make is it? I trust you're taking it back!

One of those made up names tbh SeaRabbit - as it was all they had in stock, I didn't have much choice - "Kent & Stowe'- but yes, I will be taking it back. DH says its a flaw in the metal, and just one of those things, but I ask you!

Oh shit, himself bought a Kent & Stowe fork and snapped the shafts first time he used it. They are utter suite.

Shite. Not suite. What kind of prim phone accepts shit but not shite?

not just me then!
Read somewhere I may be better off with solid forged carbon steel rather than stainless steel ( Spear and Jackson Neverbend perhaps?)
The one that gets rave reviews is by Sneeboer, but its nearly £100

This thread keeps disappearing from my Threads I'm On page! Very annoying.

I've planted out my aubrieta seedlings along the wall now and hoping they work with the image in my head. The wall is a bit crumbly and full of moss, so I really can't be bothered to clean and paint it. I'm hoping aubrieta will pretty it up!

That's really frustrating about the fork book, again! Speaking of bluebells, I have spotted something growing from under one of the hedges that look a lot like a pink bluebell - is there such a thing? It's quite pretty!

There is indeed Gin, and white ones too. I have them all over my garden, and wish I knew where they came from - I keep digging them up and they keep multiplying . But they are very pretty when in flower.

I can relate to that - when we moved in last spring there were two narrow beds with one bluebell up but not flowering. When I moved all the soil to get rid of the bed, I found mountains of bluebells. I assumed they were all dead as they weren't doing anything, so I used the soil all round the garden for other things. Now I have bluebells everywhere whoops!

uh oh Gin . I have an infestation of the dratted things . Leave one little bit in, and they come back .

So Cosmos daisies. Sowed loads, sprouted, potted on, kept in glazed porch, watered etc, mass death.

Anyone have any ideas where I might be going wrong?

could it be damping off, or just cold damage from last weeks cold snap?

I guessee it could have got too c9ld. Don't think it's DO, no white fungus and they were in individual pots.

Anyway, who dares me to start planting out this weekend?

Can I drop by please? Very amateur though as the queries below will demonstrate.

Planted a few roses earlier in the week with what I thought was Rose Food containing rootgrow with mycorrhyzal fungi. It was only when putting the last one in that I saw the footnote that it wasn't a substitute for using rootgrow when planting but After Plant . Will it do any harm?

Just planted some everlasting sweetpeas in a propagator indoors, are they likely to appear soon enough to plant out and flower this year. What else could be started now?

Can anyone recommend a pear tree variety which only grows up to 2m please? The ones I've seen are already too tall to match our dwarf apple trees.

Hi can I join in, been reading this thread for a while now. I'm a very very keen gardener but I am still learning.
I have just planted out my sweetpea seedlings in the garden and fingers crossed they do well.

Welcome

Sweet peas will be fine outside. Anything more tender is a bit of a gamble. I have everlasting sweet peas from seed Lizs Probably me but mine were very slow to germinate then slow to get going. Not helped by the fact I had to move them but they took several years to get going properly. I might be tempted to pick up a pot of germinated perennial ones for now having the perennial ones to look forward to in the future.

Been turning my new Photinias into pleached plants on a frame, or my version of them anyway. Having some success with them as if I balance them into the wall they are about the right height to sit in front of the trellis. Also found the remnants of a clematis Armandii that luckily had a couple of leaves still attached where him next door had chopped. Have dug it up and is in a pot with some vital and hoping that takes off? Mme Carriere and remaining Honeysuckle is now up on wires. It's starting to look a bit better and I may do some more photinia.

Here's a Photinia, the tip of the trellis is 10 foot above our ground level.

Just found my first Rose in bloom. I was not too sure it would be ok as it is the shadier part of the garden. It seems fine though