Weeds

I'm curious - why tomato food?

Yeh? Why tomato food? It looks pretty good on the tomato food diet.

I believe the top photo is 'White Snakeroot.' It's a tenacious weed and very poisonous. Use garden gloves when dealing with it.

Sorry Bathgate, but this is Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) or Jack-by-the-hedge and not poisonous at all. Used in the 17th century to flavour fish. Has a garlic smell and the flowers smell not particularly good. Attracts hover-flies and the orange-tip butterfly lays it's eggs on it.

They look very similar but I hope you are right.

There is also Comfrey Officionalis which has spread badly this wet cold winter. And loads of well rooted Couch Grass in the wrong places. A small border fork is the best weapon. I put the Comfrey into one Compost bin with a sprinkling of rotting powder to help it break down. The Couch Grass into the Council Recycling bin, very handy.
Small delicate weeds into my other Compost Bin where the
red Worms have emerged in the middle when the contents warmed up with the improved weather. So gardening is once more proving interesting, or will be when the night frosts are over once more.

The Hosta looks amazing Csarina. I have taken to using dilute tomato food for most things in the last year (except hanging baskets, I use slow release fertilizer) and found it does the job.

I just wondered what the benefit of 'tomato' food is over regular plant food for hostas.

I use either dilute tea or weak tomato food as a general fertilizer for plants in the summer, water them about once every 10 - 14 days, works for me. The Fuchsia's do really well on the tannin thats in tea. I also use it for hanging baskets, although I have not done any this year.

I put spent teabags in warm water, leave overnight and then put the liquid in an old 4L plastic milk container. I use it half tea half water.

I am not too sure about that plant in the garden, I will use gloves to squish a leaf and see if it smells of garlic, if so it will stay otherwise it will be out.

If it's garlic, you'll know immediately. It looks very similar to a crazy weed I have called white snake root. It's extremely unpleasant to deal with and can make you very sick.

I gave some Lipton Tea to me Dahlias yesterday. I hope they bloom in time for July 4th.

I sympathise with your hubby Csarina but watch out , my hubby passed his on to me and I now have a stinker of a cold...
I feed my flowers with tomato fertiliser as soon as the buds appear Bathgate, Miraclegrow encourages growth and tomato feed for the flowers, if its good enough for my toms and cucumbers its gotta be good for my flowers........

I hope your husband is better now.