Gran/Grandads Gardening Corner

I was thinking of getting some slug traps. Does anyone know if they work?

I love yours Mrs Bradshaw Greyduster is "she" a Geranium? Where might I find her in the garden centre? Does she spread?
I'm so happy with my little patch can't wait to get back out there . I'm sure there is room for one or two more bits.

The lovely Mrs Bradshaw!

I put down nematodes slug pellets and they are still looking like lace!!

They do tend to eat the plants as a main course on the way to the slug pellets (pudding).

I have 4 hostas - all clear of slug damage till I squeezed a ring of slug deterrent round each and then the slug nibbles appeared. I fear I may have trapped them on the plant!!!

The irises are nearly over but Nellie Moser and Mr President have only produced one bud between them so far!

I may give them some chicken shit manure and talk to them nicely.

Our lupins are pathetic so far . No sign of any flowers at all yet .

I have popped my "dead martian" into a large pot and put it into the lean-to hospital. Fingers crossed for life.
What a great gardening day it has been today. I was off work after having a small hospital procedure last night . It felt wonderful to be "playing the nick" in my own garden and I got so much done gardening in my Jim jams .

We get very few slugs, oddly enough, but we do get snails. Thing is, all the pots except the big one at the back have slugstoppa tape on, and it has worked up to now. Perhaps they are pole vaulting into the foliage to avoid the tape! I have had these hostas for about eight years now; a couple of years ago I divided them all and gave some pieces to my daughter. Kiss of death, like any other plant matter she expresses an interest in and then promptly manages to fatally neglect.

As far as I remember slugs love hostas. That was when I stopped growing them.

We have a lot of lily beetles this year - more than usual. Inspections are revealing them daily, but there is no other course but to take 'em off by hand, which I hate, but it is better than dealing with the horrible stuff they hide their eggs in! And for the first time I can remember since we moved here, something is nibbling my hostas! You can't see the holes in the photo, but they are there.

It's a dahlia tuber, but as Maranta says, it ought to be sprouting at least, but ideally well above the ground by now if it is viable. Nothing to be lost by putting it back in though.

Luckily we don't have a slug or snail problem ( I remember a garden we once had where the first lupin that dared to put some foliage out was chomped instantly!)
There must be a few about, because I have just moved the pot of sweet peas to another location as there was a silver trail on the pot and a few leaves missing.I never see them though.

Lovely Delphiniums, the slugs always eat mine! I think I'll sow some seeds and plant them in pots next year. It has worked for the Lupins.

I just can't get hollyhocks or delphiniums to grow, spent a fortune

Nelliemoser that rhod 'Grumpy* doesn't suit it's name, it's lovely.

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Just took these pics, the delphiniums are coming out now, the Nellie Moser is almost over, and the irises just out.

gilly I can't make out anything, it could be a dahlia bulb or a dead Martian.

I agree it looks like a Dahlia. I'd pop it back, it won't really matter which way as the shoots grow towards the light, clever aren't they!
However, I'd lay it sideways so the tubers are all at an equal depth. See what happens, good luck.
I'm off to plant an urn with some late sprouting nasturtiums. Lovely weather, happy gardening week end to one and all!

No sprouts maranta just as you see. Having said that we are quite a way behind up here on the wild NE coast. Not sure what to do with it and if I plant it back in which way is up ?

Looks like a dahlia to me, but could be wrong. It should be sprouting by now if it is alive.

Can anyone tell me what this might be please? I have accidentally dug it up and not sure what it might be or even if it's alive or dead. Sorry for poor photo I didn't like to scrape too much soil away just in case .

Lovely garden J52 and those rhods and azealias!

Jalima we don't do much to encourage the clematis, just make sure it has plenty of water and a handful of Grow-more in Spring.

Keep the pics coming everybody.

Shysal if you dug it all out or killed the weeds and then started again, just with poppy seeds?

I love London Pride, so unassuming and a gentle plant.