My garden challenge

gardendelights · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 3:19 am Post subject: My garden challenge

Hi my name is Kathy and today I began my challenge which is to get out and do something everyday in the land around my home here in the West of Ireland, I also started a blog where I have posted some pictures of how the site looks today , I am a novice gardener on a tiny budget so I want to find out as much as possible about how to plant cuttings , how to grow from seed and what the best plants are to suit the area here.This is a photo of what the land looks like , and as I will be doing most of the work myself ; I would be delighted to hear any ideas others have on how best to deal with the growth here , at the moment I am clearing a little at a time and trying to plant something as I go, today I planted some willow cuttings as this is growing already here alongside some other plants I planted over the years some of which I need advise on later. Have been doing some reading about growing without tilling any ideas on this anyone, sounds good for maybe some areas here. Kathy. and thank you for reading happy gardening everyone.

gardendelights · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 3:30 am Post subject:

I cannot seem to add a photo , tried several times and the photos are the correct format.

kindredspirit · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 7:25 am Post subject:

Don't know about adding photos direct to the site: what I normally do, is to host them on an external source (photobucket.com) and link them here with [img] tags. Would that help?

Greengage · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 9:23 am Post subject:

resize your picture in Paint to 600 and then post here no problem, what is the link to your blog.

gardendelights · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 7:52 pm Post subject: garden challenge

Today I had fun and here is what I did [img]https://www.facebook.com/kathy.burke.12764

Please feel free to advise , and thank you Sue and all the lovely gardeners that have posted advise , what a wonderful site. Kathy[/img]

gardendelights · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 7:55 pm Post subject: garden challenge

Today I had fun and here is what I did [img]https://www.facebook.com/kathy.burke.12764

Please feel free to advise , and thank you Sue and all the lovely gardeners that have posted advise , what a wonderful site. Kathy[/img]https://www.facebook.com/kathy.burke.12764

kindredspirit · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:08 pm Post subject:

https://www.facebook.com/kathy.burke.12764

gardendelights · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:17 pm Post subject:

Thank you for this , how do you make that happen the link I mean , feel so silly but if I dont ask I will never know ha ha. Happy days to you.

kindredspirit · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:52 pm Post subject:

I just posted the link without any tags and it came up as a clickable link.

gardendelights · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:06 pm Post subject:

oh great , I will try that when I do tow.s challenge . going to look at your garden pics now. Kathy.

Good guy · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:50 pm Post subject:

Hi Kathy. Welcome to the forum and all the best with your garden.
For resizing photos I use an app called SimpleResize. It's dead easy.

gardendelights · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 12:28 am Post subject:

Thanks good guy will look into that tow after my battle with the garden ah not really a battle more a wonder what I will find tow really . Kind regards Kathy.

Silver surfer · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:26 pm Post subject:

Welcome to the forums gardendelight.

Very sorry I cannot join in.
I cannot see the pics.
I refuse to join Facebook.

gardendelights · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 4:23 pm Post subject:

the pics are on my blog also , there is an icon next to the profile and pm one , www i think and if you click on that my pictures are there , at the moment i am searching for a pic of the honeysuckle as it is now in Feb just to give me an idea on how to prune it , if you have a honeysuckle growing and can take a pic i would be most grateful.kind regards Kathy.

tagwex · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 7:31 pm Post subject:

Welcome back Silver Surfer you were missed. Someone was looking for skills a few weeks back, trying to identify an Astilbe I think. Could have been Kim. Took a while but I think they got there in the end.