Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Anyone know what this is? It has small white flowers which are starting to bear fruit. I did have some chillies growing close to this last year, could be some mad hybrid?

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Yes definitely a chilli plant, probably a hybrid as you say, with any luck they might ripen before the first frost comes (assuming they're in the UK that is). I've always struggled to get chillies to ripen off enough outside and tend to bring them inside under glass. You could try a cloche over them I guess.

Hmm walking down Albany Road just came across one of these plants growing in someone's front garden

The photos aren't brilliant but those flowers look more like potato flowers (or something from the Solanacea family). They will produce small round fruit as well.

Yup that's nightshade family for sure. Chillies have glossier plants and conventional leaf shaped leaves, not serrated like tomato/potato

Ahh now that you mention it my potato growing days with my dad as a child are coming back to me.

Aubergine plants are flowering. Somehow I think winter will come before we get anything to eat from them though.
Lemongrass is doing quite well and my 7 year old maltreated strawberry plant is fruiting like a trooper.
Rudbechia is flowering like mad and the lilies we got from Chelsea are looking great.

Popped into larch cottage this afternoon, what a magical place !
https://larchcottage.co.uk/cms/home

Anyone know what this is? Some kind of soft grub/ caterpillar, about 7-8cm looking. Moves quick!

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http://www.uksafari.com/caterpillars.htm

One of the bigger moth's caterpillars?

Ah yeah maybe the Elephant Hawk Moth http://www.uksafari.com/elephanthm.htm

Lemongrass is doing quite well and my 7 year old maltreated strawberry plant is fruiting like a trooper.

My two badly looked after stalks from supermarket Lemongrass have now suddenly started growing. Took six months mind you...

Dunno but I feel like it needs a meme

How big is it? Looks enormous

That's terrible... and its hat covers its "eyes". Is about 7-8cm, startlingly big and rapid for a caterpillar.

That's terrible... and it's hat covers its "eyes"

Obviously I have to reply in meme format:

I hear hats covering the eyes is the style these days.

(I have no idea sorry).

My mum posted me some aquilegia barlow seeds from her garden and I put them down two hours ago. I've twice had to chase woodpigeons off them in that time.

The seeds are tiny! And black! Against wet soil! How do they even know!? Jesus.

'Get a garden', they said. 'It will be relaxing', they said.

I planted tulips in mum's garden in a sort of gradated colour wheel, from white to yellow to pink to red to black. The squirrels dug them up THEN REPLANTED THEM ALL MUDDLED UP. Shitty little bastards.

i keep remembering this story periodically and having a little giggle to myself about it. Soz.

I put nets over my seeds and the pigeons have completely vacated my garden in protest. Am devastated, obvs.

I just planted about 180 bulbs in the garden.

That should brighten the place up a bit. Badum tisch.

Seriously, 60 tulips, 35 dafs, 50 crocus, 35 snowdrops.

All but the crocus are under the slate covered border round the drive, the crocus are under the edges of the lawn.

If only a few come up it will be something.

Jesus christ. I did 40 tulips today and I'm knackered from just that.

I read on the internet that you're supposed to dig them back up at the end of spring once they're done blooming so you can store them to replant in autumn. Not a chance.

I got naturalising varieties. That means you leave them in for 4-5 years then dig split dry replant.

I'm on squirrel watch tonight, they love crocus and tulip apparently.

I just got any old shit from Lidl. #budgetgardener

I have heard tell that squirrels hate the smell of allium bulbs so if you liberally plant them amongst your other, tastier, bulbs then they leave them alone. The only bulbs I've planted so far happen to be with alliums mixed in so the lack of squirrels digging them might just be coincidence. The other bulbs have no such talismanic garlic protection so I look forward* to putting this theory to the test over the next few months.

*this bit is a lie