Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Ah, my bad. Cc @hoefla

does anyone have beach pebbles?

Ride to Dunwich, plenty of them there.

can't really be arsed with carting them back though...

Barenecessities built me some superbly neat and tidy raised bed frames, one of which I've set up today. Neighbour's cat has already tried to screw with its contents. Get away! Leave it alone! It's not a litter box! OUT OUT OUT!

Sprinkle cayenne pepper on everything, they hate it

I found a fresh cat turd in my raised bed today too.
#solidarity

OK, I have loads of seedlings - tomato, lettuce, pink poppy, some other flowers and poss some courgette. Who's up for swapsies? S London preferably

I have nothing to swap but am after some tomatoes. Can I give you beer?

PM me your house number and I'll leave some in your front garden next week - I've got some that turn into small bushy plants and have cherry toms and some that will need tying and I think might be plum tomatos

Not sure what has happened to my seedlings this year, have cherry plum tommies and some aubergines but I think I may have been given some dud chili seeds as none of them have appeared which is rubbish in comparison to the bumper crop I had last year.

Barenecessities built me some superbly neat and tidy raised bed frames

I'd like 2 of these please...

I'll swap you for the equivalent square footage of freshly-baked bread?

Sounds like a good deal! ps i like how we strike the deal but the men-folk have to do the work..

haha, mwhahaha, mwhahaha

You are a wonderful person :-)

I'm 108, the one with the blue fence and door.

Whatever you have spare.

^ also the big ass dog and multiple burglar alarms.

#gotyourback

Just found this thread and I predict spending a lot of time here asking beginner questions. Moved in January and now have an 80' long but narrow north facing garden of very uneven lawn which hadn't been mown in months. No beds and lots of sub surface rubble. I've got the lawn back to life with plenty of mowing (couple of times a week dropping the cutting height each time) so it's now starting to come through green and less clumpy.

I've still not dug beds and have weeds round the edges which I've knocked back but not dug out yet while I decide what I am going to do with my easily waterlogged soil. I've replaced a dilapidated shed for bike storage but her indoors has other ideas for the sunny end of the garden so it might need to move a bit.

I want a bridge over a meadow style bed, that's as far as my design has got.

tldr?
I've no idea what I'm doing with lots of space to fuck it up in. Any suggestions will be welcomed. And before you ask dicki, yes I have mowed my lawn.

Keep going with them, they might come up yet. Almost everything I planted this year germinated with a couple of days, but the tomatoes took 2+ weeks to shown (plastic greenhouse), and the aubergines and peppers only appeared after 3+ weeks in the airing cupboard. This year's current title holder though is a solitary passion fruit seedling which has finally appeared after 5 weeks under heat.

They've been in a heated propagator for over a month on a sunny windowsill. I may move one lot to the airing cupboard and see what happens

You can do a fair bit of work now and the garden will look brilliant in six weeks. Is anything coming up from the previous owners? If not then just clear the weeds, start a compost heap, dig the soil over one spit deep, the depth of a spade and get planting.

hot tub time machine, obvs.

yep - mow, pull weeds out and see what's there.

Digging the soil over is how you find treasure. Well, old bottles.

Not sure if You are joking or you have been speaking to her indoors.

I've got my runner beans out today "hardening". I'm going to grow them in pots on our balcony. Thoughts on when to re-pot them outside? They're already quite tall.

Just replanted the window box on my balcony with some flowering perennials and repotted the bamboo I've been neglecting for the last year, as well as planting the climbers on the back wall.

Small frisson of pride at the new growth that has happened over the last two weeks. But will be prouder when they bloom again next year, which will mean they will have survived for at least a year and u haven't neglected my gardening duties...