silver_charming's Journal

Member since: Jun 08 | Years gardening: 0 Organic gardener

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05 Jul 2008
Aminopyralid: there's muck in the muck 21 25
Over the past few months or so a whisper of discontent has become a scream of anger. You may have never heard of aminopyralid yet; if you value your garden, you might want to become acquainted with it now. It all started slowly and disjointedly. People started commenting that their plants and cro...
Cloudy 18°C / 64°F
01 Jul 2008
Pampas parties, kids and bimblebums 9 8
Last night we held a pampas party. A pampas party, for those of you less keen on exploiting your friendships to further your gardening aims, is an event where you offer beer and barbecued food to your nearest and dearest in return for a hour or so of their time digging up your unwanted grasses. A...
Cloudy 19°C / 66°F
24 Jun 2008
In case I ever forget why I am doing this 13 6
I’ve been really amazed by all the support and lovely comments I have received from you guys – I couldn’t have hoped for a warmer welcome to myfolia! It really helps to have support from fellow gardeners. Usually I lurk on a money-based greenfingered board elsewhere, and the peo...
Overcast 15°C / 59°F
23 Jun 2008
Starting the long hard slog to restore my garden... 13 15
I have an easy way to tell the green-fingered from the no-chancers, and the committed horticulturist from the weekend-gardener, the stony-faced realist from the dreamer. All I have to do is show them my garden. “It looks like a pigging nightmare, I have to say” my father told me the f...
Sunny 22°C / 72°F
23 Jun 2008
Transplanted Rosemary Transplanted
23 Jun 2008
Transplanted Lemon Balm Transplanted
23 Jun 2008
Transplanted Spearmint Transplanted
14 Jun 2008
Sown Parsley Sown
14 Jun 2008
Transplanted California Poppy Transplanted
14 Jun 2008
Sown Chives Sown