Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Cut and grow again salad leaf seeds are brilliant. If you do enough (a couple.of square feet) it'll keep you in salad. They really do keep on coming back.

If you are coming near Herne Hill at any point, I have some spare pots you can have. Be doing me a favour.

Chillis just need an appropriate sized pot for plant and a bit of support right?

Proper pampering right there. Some tomato feed when fruiting will help too

I'd only keep the strongest few seedlings and plant only three or four in that balcony style box.

Awesome, thanks guys. I'll do that, and throw the rest in the garden and see how they do au naturel.

I grew chilis three years ago in small (like 1 liter) pots on an east-facing windowsill and they grew like 25cm high and produced a few berries.
I put a few of them outside guerilla-gardening style in the full sun, and the same seedlings became 1m³ bushes that produced over a hundred fruit each, without any baby-sitting (apart from watering).

Read up on chilis quite a bit as I grow a few special ones this year, consensus seems that most of them like at least 5 liter pots to grow proper plants.
Also use a rather fluffy soil mix (the kind that says "tomato" is fine).

37m50s in - I want to be more like this guy, although perhaps with a different obsession: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08qhg3j/gardeners-world-2017-episode-9

What a legend!

Anyone want a hozelock sprinkler and a cheap trowel? Free (or beer if you're feeling nice). Can probably get it to you if you're in South London. Also have some lawn seed and lawn food that I don't need any more.

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I'll take all of that off your hands if that's ok? SE19

Does anyone know what this might be? It's growing up to about 8ft tall.

Edit: another pic

Cow parsley or hemlock? It doesn't look like giant hogweed, if that's what you're thinking.

Cheers! Wasn't sure, but was thinking one of those two. A few minutes of Internet suggested it wasn't giant hogweed, but I'm no Monty Don.

Will have to look at how to spot the difference between cow parsley and hemlock and go have another look at it...

Smooth stem will be hemlock; ridged, celery stalk-type stem will be cow parsley. Leaves are slightly different too.

I'm not Monty Don either but it doesn't look like Cow Parsley to me, looks like Hemlock.

Anyone know what this is?
Thought it might have been a weed but provides nice ground cover and is now putting out yellow flowers.

Thought it might have been a weed.

If you like it, it's not a weed!

Could it be a yellow flowering borage?

Looks like yellow loosestrife

Cheers everyone! Yes seems to be the yellow loosestrife!

I have some toms you can have they're small at moment in small pots and I'll be transplanting them in few weeks when big enough, also in E17 for easy pick up plenty of used pots if needed cheers K

Do ants, cats or squirrels eat herbs?

Rats and mice do.

Hmmm.

I assumed the herbs seedlings and rocket I planted at the weekend were decimated by slugs.

To protect the remnants I rigged up some copper wire to an old bike battery.

This morning even more had gone including some of the chives being "trimmed", but most noticeable was soil on the strawberry leaves next to the planter.

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Maybe I need to fabricate a wire cage and recharge up the bike battery to give it some umff(sp?).

You need one of these....