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| Thread ID: 74577 | 2006-11-27 21:39:00 | I like making mistakes | Thomas01 (317) | PC World Chat |
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| 502622 | 2006-11-27 21:39:00 | I like making mistakes - well I must do seeing how many I make. But some years ago I made a beauty. Bought a house with a magnificent garden. Lovely I thought - I am a lousy gardener (OK with veges!). Now I find the lovely garden needs maintaining, it needs knowledge I don't have. So I need a good gardening site to help me - but I must be able to send photos there for people to tell me if its a weed or chrysanthemum or something. (My wife has banned me from weeding!). I have loads of books on plants etc and can follow instructions - but only if I know what the darn thing is. Any suggestions welcomed. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 502623 | 2006-11-27 21:42:00 | Google (www.google.co.nz) is your friend. | Greg (193) | ||
| 502624 | 2006-11-27 23:41:00 | Time to move. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 502625 | 2006-11-27 23:45:00 | Now I find the lovely garden needs maintaining, it needs knowledge I don't have. So I need a good gardening site to help me - but I must be able to send photos there for people to tell me if its a weed or chrysanthemum or something. Rule 1: If you hate it and don't want it there - its a weed. If you like it - its a wanted plant. (A weed is just an unwanted plant). Keep your lawn clippings - apart from compost for the vege garden it makes excellent mulch. Helps keep the weeds under control and breaks down to help the soil - which helps make it easier to weed. I had an overgrown mess here too. 2 parts we put back into lawn, the rest got a major pruning and masses of stuff ripped out, mowed and composted. And 3 trips to the tip as well for the ivy, holly and pest vine. As for the rest I follow the rule above. Some of my neighbours were quite horrified but like I said, if you hate it - its a weed. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 502626 | 2006-11-28 01:17:00 | And it's easy to tell the difference between weeds and valuable plants: if you're weeding and you pull on what looks like a weed and it comes out of the ground easily, it's a valuable plant!:lol: | johcar (6283) | ||
| 502627 | 2006-11-28 01:39:00 | Iggy Johcar . . . If it has short roots and a larger upper growth, likely it's a weed . . . they don't go deep because they are just trying to live long enough to propagate then die . Most things you want and have planted on purpose will estabish deeper roots, not as a rule but as a tendency . There are some exceptions . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 502628 | 2006-11-28 02:26:00 | if you're weeding and you pull on what looks like a weed and it comes out of the ground easily, it's a valuable plant!:lol: Nope, if it looks like a weed its is a weed regardless of how much they cost in garden shops. I have this stuff called alstroemeria - it sells for $6 a tiny little lump. It has pretty flowers and the florists love it apparently. Its a weed. I'm still ripping out infestations of the stuff. As well as Irises, Peonies and other weeds. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 502629 | 2006-11-28 02:35:00 | Google (www.google.co.nz) is your friend. Yeah Thanks Greg. But of course I have already tried Google. And tried again just now. I seem able to find lots of sites but being able to send them photos for somebody to look at doesn't seem possible - not to me anyway. Funny enough I found one site that looked as though it might be right, then a member wrote in asking was it possible to send photos in as she could find no way to do it. There were no replies. Perhaps I am asking for something that doesn't exist yet. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 502630 | 2006-11-28 09:32:00 | Thomas mate. All you need to do to "send" a photo is to upload it to the likes of imagef1.net.nz and post the link to the forum you're asking in. Example... Here (www.imagef1.net.nz). | Greg (193) | ||
| 502631 | 2006-11-28 09:46:00 | A weed is ANY plant in the wrong place . For mistakes, don't try this . For several months, I have saved all the stray hairs from my wife that happen in hair brushes etc . Yesterday morning I put half the hair on the hair brush and half on the pillow while she was having a shower . When she saw it . . . ! ! ! Well, I thought it was funny, but that was not the universal opinion 'round here . Hot tongue and cold shoulder diet for a moment or three . |
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