Thanks @AmyA
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As my gardening duties are strictly lawn mowing only (flowers/weeds how am i supposed to know the difference!!!) and my mower is petrol powered which Iām currently unable to start my lawns are looking a bit wild n ragged at the moment which is bloody annoying me as i think a garden looks so much better with grass the same length.
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@pootle i havenāt needed to bother as much this year with the lawns I think I have only mowed them 3 times so far itās not growing due to the weather and sunshine 
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@Gazza_64 yeah Iād be needing a herd of goats if growing conditions had been right.
Iāve probably done mine 5 times max!!!
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Welp, its pretty much official. The heat has just about killed my scented pelargonium 
Cant seem to get it to recover no matter what i do
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@Green_Eyed_Girl all that love and tender care not worked hun itās a shame I have had the same with my baskets and going away for a holiday come back to wilted plants everywhere 
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It was looking fab, then it just gave up the ghost. Nothing i do seems to make it want to put new leaves on
Couple of friends have had the same thing. The heat has been killing alot of plants down here
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I kept the herbs alive for a couple months and got to eat a lot from them, but theyāve withered up and died in the past monthā¦ The leaves just started getting white speckles on them and I didnāt know what I was supposed to doā¦ 
Soe bird (not sure if its the magpies or finches) have atw half of the apples on my treeā¦as in half an apple but all the apples lol
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Here in the Pacific Northwest we have had several weeks of crazy hot weather after months of record rain and no sun . All the effort I put into the garden and about half of it is doing OK . Been eating a lot of lettuce and giving some to neighbors , can hardly harvest fast enough . One neighborās rabbit enjoys some too . Hopefully in a week or two we should be eating cherry tomatoes . I also planted three varieties of heirloom tomatoes , time will tell how they do . Bush beans produced enough for a meal , but pole beans seem to have been hit pretty hard by the heat . I have multiple mounds of potatoes and am dying to dig one up to see how they are doing .
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@Oldman with you there bud my lettuces and toms both cherry and normal have done well sorry for all the other veg not so good
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Not me thinking this was gunna be about ālady gardensā and if we shave, wax or go Au Naturelle 
there is a thread for that @ForbiddenFruit69 , but this is not it.
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Well know, in my previous post I stated my gardening duties were restricted to the lawns as weeding usually ends up in an argument with Mrs P, that is except for knotweed,i bloody hate the stuff and our garden suffers it thanks to a neighbour!!! The only thing that seems to slow it down is the hot dry weather weāve been having here and so feeling not quite as achy (post accident) and the bug seems to have done one i made a start on the patio flower bed,it took a good few hours to do about 12ft along the fence and i ended up with a pile that was 2/3rds rootsā
One particular patch i mustāve dug down 2ft to get all the root outā
The bed looks a lot better for it but weāll have to see how much comes backā
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@pootle, have you tried the roll on gel?
It looks like a normal roll on, every click releases a gel you rub on the leaf and it take the poison into the ground and into the root.
We use it as I donāt like the sprays, especially near stuff you grow and eat.
Itās also good as you can rub on underneath of leaf and doesnāt interfere with birds
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Sounds good!
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Just picked a mixing bowl full of cherry tomatoes. Could have picked twice as much but i havent anywhere to put them all
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Pmfsl yeah I realised that haha! Damn!
Well, there are many trimmed bushes and tidy lawns hereā¦just of the plant veriety 
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Everyone in the country should grow tomatoes. They are so easy to grow and way tastier than most you find in the supermarket
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