Weedness relocation Scheme

Alex · 26-03-2012, 10:34 PM

Apologies for the title

but most of the weeds below had been uprooted from the garden or other places over the winter, beginning of spring and planted in a "weed bed" and have taken brilliantly.

Sedum is also something that is great to break up and plant around the place

The chicory, evening primrose and hollyhock that was planted and flowered last year is coming back

burnt toast · 26-03-2012, 10:56 PM

Brill Alex,my female margies have eaten most of the things in their area down to the ground! Male only seems to have a nibble but the girls are gannets, so I need to go out & get more!

What time of year did you transplant them Alex? & did you remove the foliage?

pwinkie03 · 26-03-2012, 10:56 PM

Excellent! I hope once my garden gets sorted ill have a good patch of weeds like that... plenty of food there for all!

Alex · 26-03-2012, 11:08 PM

Thank Lynn

All throughout the year, for example the hedge mustard and some of the forget-me-not was during the winter, as was expecting replanting had no immedaite affect, the plants didnt grow but come early march they really starting growing! things like the sow thistle was generally planted over the last 6 weeks, some has settled well and grown brilliantly others havent done much yet. Try and get as much of the root system as possible and at this time of year regular watering for newly transplanted ones is important. Foliage was kept on. Sometimes they look pretty sorry for themselves for a few weeks and can go three ways, leafs die and they do, leaves die but they slowly grow back or they just carry on growing as normal

Alex · 26-03-2012, 11:10 PM

Thanks Louise

by the way your outside enclosure looked great! Just make sure it doesn't flood in heavy rain but your drainage system looked good

houseofcutler · 28-03-2012, 10:04 AM

That's a nice selection of weeds - I'm just starting to get mine together hope they turn out as well as yours

knottyedge · 30-03-2012, 10:46 AM

looking good

emma_mcraf · 30-03-2012, 02:04 PM

That's great, Alex.

I've got a weed patch too and am hoping it'll establish well this year. My friends have been letting me dig up their cat's ear and sowthistles, which have transplanted and taken well. Fingers crossed the rest will too as well as the seeds I've sown.

26-03-2012, 10:34 PM	#1
Alex Member Juvenile Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 915	Weedness relocation Scheme Apologies for the title but most of the weeds below had been uprooted from the garden or other places over the winter, beginning of spring and planted in a "weed bed" and have taken brilliantly. Sedum is also something that is great to break up and plant around the place The chicory, evening primrose and hollyhock that was planted and flowered last year is coming back __________________ Alex

26-03-2012, 10:56 PM	#3
pwinkie03 Member Hatchling Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 548	Excellent! I hope once my garden gets sorted ill have a good patch of weeds like that... plenty of food there for all! __________________ 1.0.0 Common Musk Turtle: You can find out more about Stinkpot at... http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003275610357 0.0.2 Pancake Tortoise - You can see more of Sheldon, Swarley and Spartacus (RIP) at... http://www.youtube.com/user/SheldonandSwarely

26-03-2012, 11:08 PM	#4
Alex Member Juvenile Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 915	Thank Lynn All throughout the year, for example the hedge mustard and some of the forget-me-not was during the winter, as was expecting replanting had no immedaite affect, the plants didnt grow but come early march they really starting growing! things like the sow thistle was generally planted over the last 6 weeks, some has settled well and grown brilliantly others havent done much yet. Try and get as much of the root system as possible and at this time of year regular watering for newly transplanted ones is important. Foliage was kept on. Sometimes they look pretty sorry for themselves for a few weeks and can go three ways, leafs die and they do, leaves die but they slowly grow back or they just carry on growing as normal __________________ Alex

26-03-2012, 11:10 PM	#5
Alex Member Juvenile Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 915	Thanks Louise by the way your outside enclosure looked great! Just make sure it doesn't flood in heavy rain but your drainage system looked good __________________ Alex

28-03-2012, 10:04 AM	#6
houseofcutler Member Hatched Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Birmingham Posts: 280	That's a nice selection of weeds - I'm just starting to get mine together hope they turn out as well as yours __________________ Ben 0.0.2 THB Slow Vincent Gonzales & Rita Queen of Speed See my tortoises Live Feed Testudo Weight Recorder with Jackson calculation and graphs

26-03-2012, 10:56 PM	#2
burnt toast Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 5,246	Brill Alex,my female margies have eaten most of the things in their area down to the ground! Male only seems to have a nibble but the girls are gannets, so I need to go out & get more! What time of year did you transplant them Alex? & did you remove the foliage?

30-03-2012, 10:46 AM	#7
knottyedge Member Hatchling Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: the Cotswolds,gloucestershire Posts: 619	looking good __________________ X2 Greyhounds- Barnabas and Rufus x6 Spur Thighed Ibera's-Clover,Willow,Figwort, Radish,Pennywort and Bramble X1Tropical fish setup

30-03-2012, 02:04 PM	#8
emma_mcraf Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Devon Posts: 11,365	That's great, Alex. I've got a weed patch too and am hoping it'll establish well this year. My friends have been letting me dig up their cat's ear and sowthistles, which have transplanted and taken well. Fingers crossed the rest will too as well as the seeds I've sown. __________________ Emma Testudo Hermanni 5.12.2:Theo, Tamara, Tabitha, Harriet, Isabelle, Clara, Oscar, Hugo, Oliver, Florence, Arabella, Esmé, Aurelia, Felicia, Claudia, Atticus, Celestia, Amaris, Tristan and Clementine Budgies: Jasper, Ivo, Otis, Henry, Louie and Luca Doggies: 1.1.0 Chester and Lottie

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