Wednesday 11 June 2014

Horsetail is a nightmare!

This is why I should never bother even attempting to grow salad crops


Not a pretty sight is it! The Pak Choi is bolted - not that I've even figured out what to actually do with Pak Choi anyways - and the rest is simply over growing or going woody or else the slugs are dining on it.
Then we go outside to the newish raised beds and look what we find


That not so pretty sight is bolted Leeks mixed in with that ruddy horsetail weed!
I refuse to fight a losing battle with Horsetail so I'm removing these beds, it's absolutely beyond my tenacity to keep fighting that damn stuff.

On the upside all this sun is making the flowers grow at the same rate as the weeds


The Rhodi's are flowering better than ever this year - may have something to do with my lack of pruning


I can smell the Hawthorn flowers as soon as I round the corner of the greenhouse and it's heaven - I love this smell


Mr TG has finally gotten round to erecting the fencing to keep the raptors in (I refer here to our Great Dane). There's about 150metres of it that needed erecting along the bottom edge of the land because Huntly kept escaping into the neighbours fields but we had to make it 6ft tall to ensure he couldn't whizz over it.
Unfortunately this has meant that we have fenced off the burn and the lovely wild area that sits beyond the new fence. We'll put a gate in so that we still have access and I also have plans to somehow make a lovely walk down there - much to Mr TG's despair.


Bless him!

3 comments:

  1. Fortunately horsetail is one weed we haven't had to contend with.

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  2. Awwwww....bless him indeed. Def' man's-work.....sheesh....we could break a nail!

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  3. I am surrounded by horsetail in my raised beds and all gardens are consumed by it...really hate it

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