Gorgeous, Lola. Where in Oz do you live again? I have a feeling that you and I are in a similar if not the same agricultural zone.
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Gorgeous, Lola. Where in Oz do you live again? I have a feeling that you and I are in a similar if not the same agricultural zone.
Vee, have you ever grown chilli plants? I've got two in the GH and have never grown them before so was looking for advice. Anyway bedtime for me folks.
I have but it's been awhile. What kind of chillis?
Blimey, Lola! Those are huge! A yukka a couple of feet high is likely £10+ so something like that would very very expensive over here.
Fishman, my GF has been growing chillies for years. Perhaps between us all we can film in some gaps? She has told me she finds them mostly easy enough to grow. I know she has grown ones like Scotch Bonnet, one called reaper something, Trinidad Scorpion, etc. She makes them up into jams for her, some neighbours and people at work. Her next door neighbour is a chef so he's give her some tips on favouring with them.
Completely agree with you, Mother Nature has a lot more understanding & experience than we do.
Look at the mess grey squirrels have caused to our red squirrel population. Not too far from my GF's place the animal rights activists broke into a mink farm and released them many years ago. Whilst I disagree with the fur trade releasing them caused some many problems that they had to be eradicated. No natural predators and they are very adept at killing the local wildlife.
I think our Aussie friends will be telling us the follies of importing toads https://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/frog/t157186.gif
There was an article about how seagull populations were creating so much effluent they were introducing natural predators. I can't remember where in the south it was.
Wow! That toad is huge!!
So according to this site, Lola, I think you're in the 7b category?
https://www.plantmaps.com/interactiv...ap-celsius.php
I'm in a 10a/10b zone. According to this, that's like Adelaide climate.
I completely dug up my front garden. Dug up all the weeds and had to remove some bushes. A month later weeds are back. I have no idea what to do except cover with black garden sheeting and leave it until next spring.
I'm giving you California advice (because I've never lived in the UK)...but what you'd usually want to do is spray the lawn with weed killer. If you don't want to use chemicals, or pay the high prices for them, you can make some great weed killer yourself. You need a gallon of vinegar, a tablespoon of dish soap, and a tablespoon of salt. Shake it all up and mix it together, and you're all set. Apply it in the sun during the middle of the day and give it 24 hours to kill. Then take a bush tool and clear the dead weeds. After that, you want to take a tiller and till the soil, just the top six inches. Wait till it will rain, and spread your grass seed and topsoil right before it's going to rain. There is nothing like a good soaking rain to get a lawn started.
If you don't want to do this now, you can leave the garden sheeting on until you're ready to do this in the spring.