I know I only posted pictures at the beginning of June, but it is pouring with rain and I am trying to keep myself amused. Took these in the few hours of sunshine we have had. The garden is looking a bit battered with the rain. Still better in some ways than wildfires and high temps with no Air conditioning. http://s703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32 ... en%202012/
You have such beautiful gardens Eric. Even heavy rain doesn't appear to have affected them too much. I hope you didn't get the months rain, all in one day, that was predicted for down south today.
I think everything in your garden is very nice. But I am not sure which is worse, torrential downpours or the heat, but I am suspecting it is the heat and lack of rain. We had 102f. on Sat and no rain to speak of here for quite sometime and the sweetcorn is starting to wither from the lack of moisture. It looks so sad. Last year we had the rain, day after day after day...this year, not a drop to be bought. My cucumbers were so bitter across the road I had to toss them all. They are next to the corn...
Hi Pianolady, the paths are different depending on where they are in the garden. We have some which are paving slabs, some concrete, a lot of gravel, in the wooded area they are bark chippings and everywhere else, grass. Carolyn, I think I prefer the cooler weather. Heat like that would destroy me. Sorry your garden and plants are suffering. Very sad to see. If like us, you need the food from the garden (we eat what we grow and grow most of what we eat) it is worrying when crops fail.
What did you use for your gravel paths? Pea gravel? Do you put a weed barrier underneath? I've tried this here and end up with weeds in the gravel even with the weed barrier due to birds and trees spitting seeds into the gravel and then it manages to grow. My weed barriers fail after a while too. How do you keep your's so clean on such a large scale?
The gravel is 12mm shingle. There us no membrane under the older paths, but there is under the newer ones. Weeds are a constant problem and I confess to using Pathclear Weedkiller and the Flame gun. Basically I go over the paths very regularly. The membrane is not that good I agree and the more persistent type of weeds will root through it and become even more difficult to remove. Forgot to say that there are some paths which are made from 'cobbles' These are small stones collected from the fields round us. We did not make those paths. One of them is probably 3 hundred years old as it leads to the site of a Tudor house which disappeared in the 1600's.
Flame gun...hmmm why didn't I think of that? I do that to clear ice off my back walk in the winter. Thanks. Maybe I'll give it another try one of these days.
Flames... that might be the answer for some stubborn weeds have in a rocky area. Gonna try it next time they poke up their heads.
lovely, just lovely. a very nice break. I will have to try a flame gun when the kettle of boiling water isn't feasible! I love those rock/sedum buckets!
