Gardening tips.

Mudgie

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I have grown sprouts this year. They look pretty good (other than the the stalk not being straight). Some of the bottom leaves are turning yellow.

Do I need to harvest now or can I take off the yellowing leaves and leave them?

Can I pick a few sprouts off at a time or do I need to harvest the lot?

Does anyone cook with the sprout tops? I was just going to give them to the rabbits but would like to use them if they are suitable
Just pick a few sprouts off at a time.
And don't overcook them !
 
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Gramaisc

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The lawns have had a 'last good cut' and the debris has been piled up on top of the rhubarb.

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I did this last year and it seemed to be a successful tactic - it rotted down to nothingness over the winter/spring and the rhubarb seemed to approve of this approach.
 

Gramaisc

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I've just cut the grass, it's been growing a bit lately and it's always nice to get the motor hot in the middle of the winter.

Plus, it means I can forget about it again for a good while now.

And, especially with a cylinder mower, it's good to be in front of things.

It was just about 'dry enough' and I finished as the approaching shower, that I could see on the radar, finally arrived.
 

littleme

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I've just cut the grass, it's been growing a bit lately and it's always nice to get the motor hot in the middle of the winter.

Plus, it means I can forget about it again for a good while now.

And, especially with a cylinder mower, it's good to be in front of things.

It was just about 'dry enough' and I finished as the approaching shower, that I could see on the radar, finally arrived.
I've just copied @Gramaisc , and cut the grass. It's been annoying me for a while and I decided if @gramasic can get away without killing it, then so can I.
 

Gramaisc

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I've just copied @Gramaisc , and cut the grass. It's been annoying me for a while and I decided if @gramasic can get away without killing it, then so can I.
It won't kill it. You can get brown marks, if you walk on it when it is actually frozen, but they will heal.

There are lots of myths about grass that just a few seconds thought about reality will dispel.

Until December 2010, in that really cold winter, I had cut grass, somewhere, in every month of this century.
 

kyoto49

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It won't kill it. You can get brown marks, if you walk on it when it is actually frozen, but they will heal.

There are lots of myths about grass that just a few seconds thought about reality will dispel.

Until December 2010, in that really cold winter, I had cut grass, somewhere, in every month of this century.
I wish I had such worries. My main worry is how I'm going to rehabilitate the badly ploughed field my dogs have turned our lovely lawn in to. It's more mud than grass 😂
 

Gramaisc

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I wish I had such worries. My main worry is how I'm going to rehabilitate the badly ploughed field my dogs have turned our lovely lawn in to. It's more mud than grass 😂
Mmm, at least you have some chance of making some progress - someone I know is subject to the attentions of badgers, and they are not at all delicate...
 

Alee

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I spent a lot of time last year seeding a new lawn because the dog completely trashed it and we got rid of shed, pool , trampoline etc. looked like a herd of cows had been living in it. I did it one section at a time, fencing it off etc. By winter I pretty much had everywhere covered grass…. Looked great until a mole moved it about 2 weeks ago 😭Iv had the odd mole before but never one quite this destructive !
 

Gramaisc

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There are verbenas in the front garden, in a bed that runs alongside the gravel drive. This seems to be a very successful way of propagating them. I rescued a dozen from the gravel in the autumn and grew them on in the greenhouse though the winter. They're getting a bit leggy now, so I've put them out. They should survive, the parent plants have gone through the winter OK so far.

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Even if they fail, I will have a steady supply from the drive, I think.

The rear part of the drive is full of antirrhinums.

People often have a poor view of self-setters, but they may be genetically superior to the cossetted plants that are deliberately sowed?
 

littleme

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There are verbenas in the front garden, in a bed that runs alongside the gravel drive. This seems to be a very successful way of propagating them. I rescued a dozen from the gravel in the autumn and grew them on in the greenhouse though the winter. They're getting a bit leggy now, so I've put them out. They should survive, the parent plants have gone through the winter OK so far.

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Even if they fail, I will have a steady supply from the drive, I think.

The rear part of the drive is full of antirrhinums.

People often have a poor view of self-setters, but they may be genetically superior to the cossetted plants that are deliberately sowed?
We have some lovely snap dragons too, I didn't plant them, they sprout from the cracks between the slabs.... I've tried growing my own from seed but no luck..... We wone be able to walk on the slabs soon for the ammounf of snap dragons, but they're so pretty that they're staying.
 

Gramaisc

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We have some lovely snap dragons too, I didn't plant them, they sprout from the cracks between the slabs.... I've tried growing my own from seed but no luck..... We wone be able to walk on the slabs soon for the ammounf of snap dragons, but they're so pretty that they're staying.
If the slabs aren't really tight together, you could try gently pulling a few after a wet day?

If they survive, then just relocate them.
 
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