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RE: Harry's Walking Stick
waqar mir
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Pruning back the dead areas of your Harry's Walking Stick is a good idea. This will help promote new growth and improve the plant's health. Be cautious and only prune the dead portions to avoid damaging healthy parts. With proper care, the plant may recover and produce more leaves next year.
Posted: Friday 21st of July 2023 07:09 PM Last reply: Monday 24th of July 2023 05:00 PM
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well done well done
Posted: Thursday 15th of July 2021 03:09 PM
Social and Theraputic Horticulture Charity
John Wicks
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A charity that I support, and which I recommend to Shoot members, is Thrive. It's website http://www.thrive.org.uk/ says "Thrive uses gardening to bring about positive changes in the lives of people living with disabilities or ill health, or who are isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable.". I have visited their garden near Reading, which is very interesting, and they also use the walled garden at The Vyne (National Trust property in Hampshire) and sites in Battersea Park, Birmingham and Gateshead. They have really useful advice on their website also - for instance how to garden if you can't bend easily. I helped my father keep his garden going when he was in his late 90s but Thrive also played a part, sending a team to tackle some jobs for him, which benefited both him and the members of the team they sent. They run courses on various topics and accredit profesionals in social and theraputic gardening, and more.
Posted: Monday 2nd of February 2015 06:48 PM Last reply: Friday 28th of February 2025 01:39 AM
Re: Harry's Walking Stick
ELAINE HUTSON
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You'll have to start cutting and see where you run into green wood, then try fertilizing with a lawn type fertilizer, don't fertilize after the end of July and see if that will make a difference.
Posted: Thursday 5th of June 2014 07:16 PM
Harry's Walking Stick
Shoot User
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I had LOTS of Japanese Beetles devour theleaves of my Harry's Walking Stick last year. This spring a few leaves have appeared BUT most of the plant is bare. The wood feels brittle and is easily broken. Should a prune back the dead areas or just leave it alone in the hope that perhaps next year more leaves will appear?
Posted: Thursday 5th of June 2014 05:08 PM Last reply: Sunday 25th of August 2024 05:59 AM
Re: Lawn maintenance
David Hedges-Gower
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Scarify lawn first...
Apply a liquid moss killer next at correct rate
You should probably aerate the lawn next (all lawns need to be hollow tined at least once per year...not forked!)
Re-scarify with blades set above ground level to break cores up (as a free seed bed)
Apply seed and a high phosphate feed, once it has germinated
Maintain new grass for approx. 6-8 weeks, then apply weed killer.
Continue with regular feed program etc etc
Apply a liquid moss killer next at correct rate
You should probably aerate the lawn next (all lawns need to be hollow tined at least once per year...not forked!)
Re-scarify with blades set above ground level to break cores up (as a free seed bed)
Apply seed and a high phosphate feed, once it has germinated
Maintain new grass for approx. 6-8 weeks, then apply weed killer.
Continue with regular feed program etc etc
Posted: Sunday 23rd of February 2014 10:01 PM
Re: Re: Lawn maintenance
John Collins
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Thanks Kathy
Posted: Tuesday 22nd of February 2011 09:26 PM
Re: Re: Lawn maintenance
John Collins
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Thanks Nicola
Posted: Tuesday 22nd of February 2011 09:25 PM
Re: Lawn maintenance
Kathy N
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Hi, John,
I had this dilemma in a client's garden back in my garden maintenance days. Kill the moss & weeds first but buy a moss, weed & feed mix - that way you kill the bad stuff and strenghten the grass at the same time. You can then seed the bare patches a few weeks later - probably earlier than you think. The packet will tell you how soon you can sow. Once you have seeded, regularly feed the grass throughout the growing season so the grass is healthy and the moss won't get a chance to take hold again. Don't cut too low when you mow, either - this can weaken the grass and is one of the main causes of moss growth in lawns. Scarify and aerate the lawn at least once a season and reapply moss killer in autumn. It was a bit of work, but it did the trick and the lawn looked great in one season.
Let me know how you get on.
Kathy C
I had this dilemma in a client's garden back in my garden maintenance days. Kill the moss & weeds first but buy a moss, weed & feed mix - that way you kill the bad stuff and strenghten the grass at the same time. You can then seed the bare patches a few weeks later - probably earlier than you think. The packet will tell you how soon you can sow. Once you have seeded, regularly feed the grass throughout the growing season so the grass is healthy and the moss won't get a chance to take hold again. Don't cut too low when you mow, either - this can weaken the grass and is one of the main causes of moss growth in lawns. Scarify and aerate the lawn at least once a season and reapply moss killer in autumn. It was a bit of work, but it did the trick and the lawn looked great in one season.
Let me know how you get on.
Kathy C
Posted: Tuesday 22nd of February 2011 08:08 PM Last reply: Tuesday 22nd of February 2011 08:09 PM
Re: Lawn maintenance
Nicola
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Hi John, thanks for your question. You have actually put this question about lawns into the gardening charities section. Are you able to add it to our lawns forum area here instead? Thanks Nicola
Posted: Tuesday 22nd of February 2011 06:58 AM
Lawn maintenance
John Collins
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Can anybody help with Catch 22 re lawn maintenance. My lawn has some moss, some weeds and areas that need reseeding. If I seed the bare patches in the spring, I can't apply moss and weed killer. If I apply moss and weed killer first then I can't apply seed. What to do?
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Posted: Monday 21st of February 2011 08:29 PM Last reply: Thursday 27th of February 2025 03:09 PM
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Pip Bensley, Hardy Nursery Stock Buyer for Hillier Garden Centres and editor of The Hillier Club Magazine and Steven Lee, Sales Director of New Place Nurseries presented a joint cheque for £4,000 to Peter Field, Trustee of Greenfingers. This money was raised from the sale of New Place Trees through Hillier Garden Centres. One pound from every New Place Nurseries tree sold to Hillier customers over the past year was donated to Greenfingers.
Greenfingers is the Charity of the Horticulture Industry dedicated to creating magical gardens for children’s hospices around the UK. The twenty nine special gardens created so far are a tremendous benefit to children staying in hospices, and also to their families. The garden at Jack’s Place, Naomi House, Winchester has just been completed and opened by the Countess of Wessex.
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Greenfingers is the Charity of the Horticulture Industry dedicated to creating magical gardens for children’s hospices around the UK. The twenty nine special gardens created so far are a tremendous benefit to children staying in hospices, and also to their families. The garden at Jack’s Place, Naomi House, Winchester has just been completed and opened by the Countess of Wessex.
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Posted: Friday 14th of January 2011 08:26 AM Last reply: Wednesday 11th of December 2024 10:31 AM