Continuing with the prepare the garden for track laying saga, have just found that the forsythia seems to be dead.
Damned great thing, which will have to come out before I can lay track near it, or I'd destroy the track tying to get the shrub out afterwards.
I think there's something nasty lurking under that flower bed. It used to be part of the yard complex for a turkey farm, you can still see the outline of he grain silos in the public open space next door, especially in a dy summer.
That particular flower bed seems to kill things, especially deeper rooted pants. So far, the tally is two silver birch trees, two buddliah bushes, one lilac, the forsythia, one Californian lilac, another shrub that I can't remember the name of, a flowering current, and a couple of other shubs. They all thrive for a couple of years, then for no accountable reason, just die! My theory is that there was something nasty buried deepish, so they die when the root sytem gets deep enough.
I'm gonna have to dig the grubber out from the back of the shed to get the roots out
Damned great thing, which will have to come out before I can lay track near it, or I'd destroy the track tying to get the shrub out afterwards.
I think there's something nasty lurking under that flower bed. It used to be part of the yard complex for a turkey farm, you can still see the outline of he grain silos in the public open space next door, especially in a dy summer.
That particular flower bed seems to kill things, especially deeper rooted pants. So far, the tally is two silver birch trees, two buddliah bushes, one lilac, the forsythia, one Californian lilac, another shrub that I can't remember the name of, a flowering current, and a couple of other shubs. They all thrive for a couple of years, then for no accountable reason, just die! My theory is that there was something nasty buried deepish, so they die when the root sytem gets deep enough.
I'm gonna have to dig the grubber out from the back of the shed to get the roots out
