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#101
Do you have to drain all of the plot with pipework? Does it run off to the roadside? Need to know because I'm nosey. Big Grin
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Will be draining the whole site. Cottage garden & veggie garden areas more than others. It runs off to the road side. There’s ditches all the way along both sides of the road.
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Thanks! Didn't you have a bridge over the road ditch?
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We did. We’ve got a culvert under the driveway now.
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^^^ There's Posh. Big Grin
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Planting trail notes to self.

Looking for low growing spreading plants to grow along the edge of the ditch. They will be outside the fence so need to be sheep & deer resistant.

Trail 1
orange hawkbit = still growing but not flowered yet.
Aubrieta = small stump still there. Very well pruned every time it attempts to grow.
Creeping thyme = pulled up by its roots before it had a chance to establish.

Trail 2
Bugle = planted with a flower spike and several runners
Sedum = one large clump and several small individuals.

Trail 3
Foxglove (purple & yellow) = planted amongst the native foxglove seedlings
Wallflowers = not healthy when they went in
Marjoram = planted low down on the bank
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#107
How about Erigeron/Mexican fleabane, Mint, oregano/marjoram,
The mint might not appeal to the sheep. Big Grin
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#108
Just look up the Erigeron. That looks perfect for the area. No idea how sheep & deer proof. Definitely going to try it. Thank you.

Guessing the herbs will be very popular. But I won’t know for sure
, if I don’t try them.
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I've been ripping up the Erigeron from my front garden where its been seeding in the paving. Spreads easily but a real pain in the wrong place.
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Is it fairly easy to control when it starts going places you don’t want it to?
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