A soakaway is a good suggestion. Dig it in the wettest part of the lawn, as deep as you can and fill it with gravel. If that doesn’t work your only option would be to run a drainage pipe away from the lawn to a suitable area. which would almost certainly require paving to be lifted.
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I plant a few marigolds in the veg patch as they say their fragrance reduces pests. I’m a bit sceptical of this claim but they brighten up the garden. Usually they are small bushy plants but this year they’ve gone mad!
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I use lavenders as an edging for the same reason.
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My father is an avid football hater. Somewhere in the nineties we moved to a newly built house. To cover the bare ground he seeded all sorts of plants - and I think marigolds were one of them. There was an important football match of the Dutch team in these days and our entire garden was orange …
We - the kids - liked it very much.
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Done tulip potting and repotting today.
Potting included these two new tulips I saw last April and ordered then.
Virichic
Green Mile
10 of each, with centre circle of 10 Virichic surrounded by Green Mile. The reason being Virichic is a little taller.
When I saw them on display at the April flower show, I thought the pink/green/yellow would go with green/yellow.
It will be interesting to see the result.
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I can’t remember the last time (if ever) that outdoor tomatoes are still ripening as October approaches and there is no blight
Squash harvest from my allotment
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Yes, still have tomatoes ripening as well as a few aubergine plants still delivering.
Most of the tomato plants are looking pretty sad now with lots of leaf discolouration but they’ve lasted quite a while.
All in all a good year just a shame there was such an abrupt change at the start of September.
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More or less the last from the greenhouse
It’s the Harvest Festival tomorrow and I will give some tomatoes, already given some chilli jam for the Harvest Lunch.
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Amy 2 Asters 1 - my asters are looking a bit sorry for themselves after the high winds and rain. They are probably in the wrong place and could do with splitting so I’ll move them over the winter as they are great for attracting bees, but when I do Id like to arrange some form of support.
Has anyone any clever ideas of how to help them out?
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That is superb
Autumn colours popping in the back garden (please excuse the false bird!) ahead of tonight’s forecast horrible weather.
Peter
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tonight/ tomorrow if the predicted weather arrives…
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Wondered if anybody could please identify the fungi? They’ve spread over the paths as well as the deep beds
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I cannot find my books, so, possibly a variety of polyphore, Jack O’Lantern, Chicken in the Woods.
What is the underside like, some polyphores have hexagonal gills, so looking like honeycomb.
Google lens says honey fungus, but I think the tops are too flat.
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Hard to tell from the photos. Are some of them growing out of the timber, or are they sprouting out of the soil next to the boards? If they have infected the timber I would suspect honey fungus. Look in the soil around them, honey fungus tends to have quite wide, flat strands of mycelia, often black.
At first glance I thought maybe a type of Lactarius (milk cap) which would be more benign. Easily tested because if you damage the flesh they exude a milky white-ish fluid.
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