r/GardeningIRE

Hi all, I saw that a third of our bees/pollinators are going to be gone by 2030. Obviously I'd like to help in any way I can in my garden. I have two bee hotels currently, planning on more. I've a relatively small garden so any suggestions on what to plant would be great

Have ideas:

-hedging for lawn for privacy behind a wall? Any ideas?

-lawn edging

-reseeding lawn

-trimming scrubs and pairing them back

-taking down the height of trees

-removing ivy from an outbuilding

Is there anything else they should be doing? Haven’t had a person for a garden before?

We bought a house recently with. Large garden and an area that used to be used as an avary.

It's falling down but essentially has a metal frame and chicken wire all around (so perfect for keeping birds away) and is divided by curbs and doors into sub sections. It also has multiple power sources.

We will eventually do something with this - I would like to use wood and perspex and essentially build a very large greenhouse - not sure if this is possible to do / will work?

Anyways, for now I have set up some grow bags and planted some potatoes that were growing in the cupboard.

What else can I plant in the next few weeks and where can I get reasonably priced seeds?

TIA

I have a tiny back garden lawn (30sqmt), and I want to dig it all out to start over, as it's really bad clay soil. My idea is to dig out the top layer (5cm or do) until the grass roots ends, throw it all out and mix in compost and sand in the remaining soil which I'll loosen up.

I'll first do a small area of maybe 1sqmt to test things out, so I'm wondering if I can just throw out the mix of soil+grass+roots in the compost bin, as I don't want to hire a skip for such a small test area.

Also, any red flags in my plan overall? I don't want to fill 100% of the soil that I dig out, because my soil is already a couple of centimetres above the patio, so when it rains the patio floods before the grass does, so I'll also take the opportunity to lower it all a bit.

I‘m in a new build with the classic square patch of shitty, weed-strewn grass out the back. I recently got some big raised beds built by a builder, gravel put down on the rest of the garden. I’ve realised that the builder used allll the grass-covered soil he dug up from the old lawn to fill in the raised beds. I complained and he said it will die off because the grass is all buried in the earth, but I have zero faith in that statement. He then said to douse the beds in weed killer, but I don’t use pesticides (I’m transforming the garden precisely to plant a lot of native, fauna-friendly plants). He’s getting topsoil delivered on Monday to finish filling in the beds.

I really don’t want to have spent thousands of euro on raised beds that are essentially the new location for the shitty grass and weeds I had previously. Can anyone give me any advice?

I have noticed loads of what I think are midges around my garden , day and night . I'm wondering why this could be ? I have a small wild garden that has mostly native plants and fruit trees . It's not particularly damp either . Any ideas on why I have so many and whether it's a good thing or a bad thing ? Im hoping the birds are benefiting from them somehow !

Was hoping to get to it sooner. Now ground has gone a bit firm with the wind the last few days.

Can I do it over the next few days before a bit of rain at the end of the week? or just fertilise and aerate in the autum?

or do it now and again in autumn?

it’s a new build, sat the lawn 18 months had a reasonably good strike but coverage isn’t great where clear compaction around the house which would make sense