Does anyone know anything about gardening?

^this is what you want, a constant drip

Has anyone had a go at a diy version? like this I need something that will water the veg this weekend, not sure a constant drip is enough.

Hollyhock is flowering yay

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I'm pondering a header on the roof of the adjacent 'wood shed',
with a check valve just cracked open,
but with the water being delivered subsoil
via a length of piping into a buried 2L soft drink bottle filled with gravel
with multiple holes punched in the side,
to encourage the roots down into the soil
rather than up to the surface.

My next door neighbour has a huge passion flower that has come through the fence and has about forty-five buds facing my kitchen windows that have just started flowering. Bonus!

I'm slightly worried that she has no buds on her side...

IT's ALIVE!

Your coffee plant?

Yep

Probably the heat.

Got this out of my mini plastic greenhouse thing now its finally warmed up. Had two originally but other plant cropped it with all that wet cold weather. Couldn't flip over the vine for a better pick, but at least the mini squash bud there is visible! Very exciting. Its all planted now and need to build a frame.

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First pull of our french garlic harvest. I've left 3 bulbs in the pot to see if they do anything more and there are some cloves I planted a month or so ago after I noticed the ones we were saving for next year had started to rot.

I got aubergines!

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a friend of mine up in tulse hill has an allotment (after 6 yrs on the waiting list), but no time to look after it, was wondering if we south forum gardening bods could get together to split our time and resources to looking after it, and splitting whatever is produced. Some form of forum gardening co-op if you will.

let me know if you're interested, and I'll take it to my friend and see where we go from there...

Oooh, I'm interested. Not sure how much time I can give but definitely up for discussing.

Oh and @Kat_Balou those look amazing
Nice one.

That's a great idea. I'm not sure I'll have much time as I work 6 days a week but I'm happy to grow seedlings in my propagator.

I wasn't sure if they had pollinated but they've suddenly started sprouting little aubergines :) can't wait to make them into a curry.

Fucking cuntfaced bastard shithead slugs have eaten all the flowers off one of my courgette plants and basically destroyed the crown. No idea if it will survive. They've also been munching the stems even though they're woody AND spiky. Courgette plant number two seems less molested, but doubt that's going to do much if only one sets flowers.

Ooooh they make me so very very mad >:(

Slug pellets are your friend.

If you have things in containers, copper tape is also good

They've also been eating my aubergine plants.

And they've been scraping the outer layer off the stems of my pepper plants.

And there was one sliming up my living room window, smirking at me insouciantly the other day.

Yep, slimy little bastards.

In other news, I started cutting back the ivy in my tiny front yard on Saturday. The more I cut off the more I wanted to cut off and just kept going.

Eight rubbish sacks later and I have discovered that my tiny front yard is not all that tiny after all. At one point I wouldn't have been surprised to uncover a long lost well and perhaps a court of King Louis XIV.

It looks ace now with some new pots and windows boxes. I'm really chuffed.

If anyone rides past Sam the wheels on Railton Rd, do tarry a moment to check it out. I'm over the road with the blue fence, the tastefully small lozenge of ivy and the vast plain of yard, complete with grazing herd of wildebeest.

tl;dr; Fuck you, ivy.

Oh yea and I got a nice little bowl for the birds so I could put seeds and mealworms in, and I decorated it nicely with lots of copper tape, and I kept going out in the morning and finding at least one of the big fuckers in the bowl getting it's gunge all over the seeds. And the copper tape. Pellets incoming.

Salt for the smirking ones. That wipes the smirk off their face I can tell you, along with their skin.

Sharp gravel and coffee grounds are also supposed to deter them.
Otherwise, get a pond with frogs/toads. We had loads of problems in our old garden with them but the new one with the pond is bliss.

Pellets and beer traps.

My aubergine patch is a graveyard of empty shells. Mewhahaha.