Remember when I planted all those Griselina cuttings in plastic plant pots full of grit sand in Portugal my polytunnel?
I have been watering them and pulling out an odd one now and again to see if they had struck roots. Today I checked them again and:
Next job was to get digging in my fym and topsoil heaps and I pulled some plastic plant 🪴 pots from my store behind the "new" plastic repurposedraised beds.. I have made my own portable ready to plant at any time hedge:
There we go. That's another seventy five to go with the ones I made earlier. I pruned the Griselina hedge and filled up the sand filled plant pots with more cuttings. It just shows you don't need to spend money if you make your own hedging and have a big pile of fym, compostand topsoil.
Any one else making their own hedging? Any one want to buy any?
I planted a row of big leaf Jade as my hedge, there are six of them and after all these years most are as tall as I am and the stems are fat and sturdy. They grow easily from cuttings and even from a single leaf, which will send roots down into the soil.
ReplyDeleteIs Jade like the money house plant River? We have one and it never seems to want a drink. We water ours every few week. Funnily enough I recently took some cuttings in the polytunnel. I hope they take.
ReplyDeleteThe money house plant is the small leaf variety and can grow quite large. I have one of those too, given to me by the brother of a neighbour who died. Your cuttings should take, but don't keep them too wet, they are succulents and prefer dry conditions.
DeleteYes I thought they are succulents River. They store water in their foliage like cacti. My money house plant rarely requires a drink.
DeleteOur garden is too narrow for hedges, but along my back fence I have a mixture of climbers, which I have made from mostly cuttings.
ReplyDeleteI grow them for my gardens and to sell to people Marlene. It's a good hobby and you make the plants for free.
ReplyDeleteI thought Griselina was a woman's name so when you said you were off to plant your Griselina, your missus probably imagined you were having an affair.
ReplyDeleteI'm having an affair with Mother Nature. What a clever lady!
ReplyDeleteI make compost and scatter ashes over the garden. I also bury leftover Greek salad and suspicious eggs in pots of dirt. Not sure if it really makes a difference but it gets rid of more kitchen rubbish. We will see to bury the remains of fish suppers, heads, bones and gits, under the lemon trees. The cats would dig them up however deep the hole so I stopped that
ReplyDeleteHi Linda. Wood ash is full of potash and onions adore it. I have just given green onion tops and my neighbours vegetable peelings to the pigs. Trench composting is a good way of adding fertility to a veg plot. Dig a trench about a foot deep and add any vegetable or garden materials like weeds, grass and hedge cuttings and cover over with soil. We just feed safe green stuff and vegetable peelings and the pigs, ponies and poultry convert it to valuable fym to put on the plot. Fish, blood and bone meal is excellent plant food.
ReplyDeleteDo I ever! But it is a heck of a commute!
ReplyDeleteCollect your free plastic plant pots and then the fym. Mix it with sand and topsoil and take your cuttings. The plant pots don't end up in landfill an you have your own portable hedging for free. Well apart from making the cuttings, filling the plant pots with your potting medium and watering them. What do you think Debby?😊
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