Gardening: Hints and Help!

I think it's a great shame the big stores can open and sell and the little ones are closed, unless they're a bit tech savvy in one way or another 😢. We have several who are - including one of the plant stalls from the market. As far as I know we're ok for plants, OH has a decorative wheelbarrow from daughter at Christmas needs put together, but will only need half a dozen at most bedding plants so fall well below their minimum orders.

Anyway nothing I can do about it. Much more traffic and SPEED on the road we can hear behind us 😤. It's nowhere near as peaceful as it was in the beginning. Lots more sirens too!

Just enjoying a good sit in the garden, generally in the sun but I do have to nip into the shade from time to time. It's April! Anyway my rambling rector rose is absolutely smothered in buds 😯, I say again it's April. I do hope the weather allows it to show itself in it's full finery this year, last year it was beautiful and just coming out one day- the next day lashings of rain and wind and a messy lawn 😢😢

We've just ordered some all purpose compost and growbags from our local farm shop, OH going to collect it next week along with our veg box etc. Normally our daughter's partner drops things off but he'll be in Cumbria next week for the family funeral. Agricultural stores are open so you can get stuff there, ours sells plants and seeds too. Locally people are going to put spare plants for sale at specific points, honesty boxes for funds, but we will also swap with neighbours.

We are sharing plants round here. 

On the bad news side, I have found some bindweed (😱) growing in my big herby border, crept underneath hedge, drastic measures required......out comes something I rarely use, weed killer, but I loathe and detest bindweed🤬

If you don’t like using weed killer ,then spray vinegar on the leaves ,it will still kill it but it’s a bit more friendly 

I will give it a try HD. But in the past I have used some real nasty stuff on bindweed and it’s still come back. But thanks for the tip, will try anything👍

Can anyone recommend a weed and feed (that works) for a lawn? Preferably in liquid form. The daisies are starting to take over.

We have a ground elder problem that comes under the fence last year I bought one of those electric heating burners for our block paving. As soon as I spot any I ehip it out and zap it. I think I'm winning 🤞. Same fence also sends snowberry suckers 😤. I'm giving those the treatment too 😀.

Husky never heard of vinegar, neat and spray? Any particular vinegar better. I use white vinegar indoors for cleaning loads of things, diluted otherwise it smells like you've had a chip supper!

If a Glyphosate based weed killer won’t shift it, I doubt if anything will. Still, the white flowers are nice 

Any vinegar, but I use white vinegar and just spray it neat on the leaves and new growth 

Vinegar is effective but be very careful ensure you ‘spray’ carefully or protect any plants you don’t want dead, vinegar don’t take prisoners nor does it discriminate☹️

PS-whenever I’ve used it I’m left feeling hungry🤷🏻‍♂️