Hi all, Newbie here!

Hello! I am pretty much an amateur when it comes to gardening, as I've spent a lot of my life living in flats with no garden! Where I live now in Hampshire, has a lovely sized garden, but was left alone for a long time (about 8 years!) so a couple of years ago we started work on reclaiming it (very slowly, weather and work permitting). I am enjoying getting rid of the weeds, ivy and all sorts we have in our garden, but we dont want to clear it out completely. We get ALOT of feathered visitors in our garden, as they really like the cover they get when visiting (we also get birds using our trees and air-raid shelter as a nesting spot!)There are tree's, including twisted hazlenut, there are some roses dotted about...but the one thing we are struggling with is ivy and japanese knotweed!

Its coming together but as soon as we get a lot of rain, we dont get out there and when we come back out, we have a ton of new growth! Fun times!

Anyway...I look forward to picking up tips, and identifying some of our flowers etc and also perhaps getting some ideas

Hope you are all well, and I look forward to speaking with you all

 

Welcome to Gardeners Corner

We've got a thread about getting rid of Japanese Knotweed here somewhere, i'll have a look for it in a bit, just got to feed the office pets first.

 

Hello! Thanks for the reply, I will be spending a while scouring the forum for info...im sure it will all be very helpful

 

Hello and welcome !

 

Back now, Aesculus's Guinea Pig don't half bite if you try to take a Mars Bar off it.

Have a look at this one,

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/knot-weed-terror.37957/page-3#post-528824

 

haha I have guinea pigs Thanks! I have also posted a thread on the ID section, as I have no idea what the pretty flowers are that are in my garden either lol

 

This is Aesculus's one.



Its got its own remote for the office tellybox. Won't let Daisees watch ITV3.

 

Hi & welcome to crazyscorner i mean gardenerscorner

 

Hiya DJ n welcome to the funny farm. I see Zigs has been on the homemade wine again........
Don't worry he only bites in his sleep.

 

Hello and welcome to the forum

Japanese Knotweed eh?

I've always wondered about that one. Its got a formidable reputation, but if you subjected it to a twice weekly barrage of Round Up, would it stand a chance? (Not a rhetorical question, I genuinely don't know).

 

Hey, spoilers

 

Welcome to GC DJ...Enjoy....(there's nowt wrong with me...)

 

Thank you for your warm welcomes! and wow...that looks a massive g.pig...and to be honest, I didnt think he was a piggy then! lol

and on the subject of japanese knotweed...we first have to get to the bit of the garden with it in, then its going to get round-upped to oblivion!!

 

Probably the number 1 rule of war, know your enemy. If you haven't done so already, I'd have a good read up about Japanese Knotweed before you get to it. Not just in terms of its control, but also in terms of disposing of it, and using the ground afterwards etc. I know there are struct rules about Japanese Knotweed, for example you can't just stick the dead bits in your green waste bin, and I think there may even be rules about transporting it.

 

Good idea on reading up! I'm guessing the best way of disposing of it is to burn it? We have quite a few fires in the garden, as its the main way we get rid of all the stuff were cutting back in our garden, so have no issue with burning it in the garden (if thats the best thing to do with it)