Gardening with Joey

[Bruce Wayne]

Those slabs could do with a spot of bleach

Don't waste covid vaccine on slabs ffs.

 

[Joey66]

Kin paving is so expensive -mine aint great and could do with some more put down as got quite a decent sized garden but alot of grass but quoted 4k for what I would like doing.

Fancy coming to lay some flags for me please @Joey66

Ground cover material with pins and oyster peal gravel on top would only cost less than £500......

 

[carlos21]

Don't waste covid vaccine on slabs ffs.

Yo Bruce how are you doing today.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Yo Bruce how are you doing today.

Hey Carlos. Not bad mate. How are you doing?

 

[carlos21]

Hey Carlos. Not bad mate. How are you doing?

I will be okay when this internet is fix.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I will be okay when this internet is fix.

You having problems mate?

 

[carlos21]

You having problems mate?

Oh yes mate keep going in and out mate.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Oh yes mate keep going in and out mate.

That sucks. Is your provider on the ball? It's a difficult time for things to go down, I imagine the support staff aren't at normal levels.

 

[carlos21]

That sucks. Is your provider on the ball? It's a difficult time for things to go down, I imagine the support staff aren't at normal levels.

Nope mate.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Nope mate.

Sorry to hear that. I'll keep fingers crossed for you.

 

[carlos21]

Sorry to hear that. I'll keep fingers crossed for you.

Nice one who is your provided mate.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Nice one who is your provided mate.

BT mate. We had problems a week before the lockdown, but thankfully they were able to get us back up beforehand.

 

[cooperman]

I had murder with getting rid of my bamboo,25 ft long about 10 foot high hedge, had two gardeners look at it neither wanted the job.
Tried all sorts of chemicals to get rid, ended up , chopping it down to ground level, dug a bit around the rootball then , used a Drill fairly big one , had a concrete breaking chisel on it (got it from the lidi )and just chipped away at the root from the outside inwards, had the lot up after a day and a half, you have to make sure you get every bit out some of the shoots go out about 5 or six foot out.
Been a year now get the odd little bit but easy to get out with a trowel .
Wasnt as bad as I thought when you got the knack of it
More boring than hard work really.

When I moved in to my current house, the garden was overrun with the stuff. I ended up using a hedge trimmer to cut it to ground level, then a pickaxe to chip/lever the roots out. Took me a very long time over several months.

As a souvenir, I kept a small clump of roots in an old bucket I had lying around. The stuff is thriving even in there, 4 years later.

 

[cooperman]

@Joey66 you got any experience growing tomatoes mate?

 

[Joey66]

@Joey66 you got any experience growing tomatoes mate?

Yes Alicanti was the best variety - taste wise -what do you want to know about Lycopersicon
esculentum originating from South/Central America also are you growing it under glass - Polythene or outside?