Does anyone know anything about gardening?

virginia creeper, nice colours quick growing and will cover large area horizontally and vertically

Keep on top of pruning it though. It will cover everything.

The colours on it are just starting to come through in my garden. Nice.

As it a boundary, have you considered nature's barbed wire,
a decent, fruitful blackberry?
You can easily get 3 or 4 metres of growth of fruiting stems each year,
which are easily tied onto stakes.

Planted some tulip and allium bulbs recently and the stupid alliums have already started to grow

Today I have been shredding leaves and other garden waste to speed up composting for next year.

Fruit farm next door are giving me another 15 apple boxes. So moving forward as leaves and other garden waste are collected they will be shredded into boxes. The shredding reduces composting time from two years to a couple of months. Just two days after shredding the compost is already warm to the touch and clouds of water vapour are emitted when it’s turned over.

The fruit boxes of compost will then be used as raised veg beds.

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With that heat you could make a glass frame to go on top and grow melons or pineapples :)

Are you going aerobic or anaerobic ?

Aerobic, boxes are above ground and effectively a walled pallet so will help with airflow.

We are wondering if we built a garden office if it could be heated by biomass.

Most definitely! That would be a wicked project. I'd help you build/dig :)

I know that I really should get out in the garden and sort it out for winter. But motivation is low, given that I am never in the garden anymore and won't be til spring probably.

I need an up-the-bum kick.

GTFO in the garden - great time of the year because nearly everything has 'died down ' and you can see stuff - tidy up a bit (its a garden not a lab) - go back in again - look out of the window -
and repeat.

Yeah, I just need to do stage one and the rest follows.

Ever perused the Navitron forum?

https://www.navitron.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10419.0

Jean Pain is your guide;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Pain

Anyone know what this is?

It's outside an NHS Clinic that I do work at. Would have been planted for ornamental reasons rather than for food but wondering if the fruits are edible?

The fruits have white hard flesh with a stone/pit inside.

I think they might be a variety of quince.

Yeah looks pretty quincey

"Marmalad" in Portuguese, hence marmalade. You'll have red or pink flowers in 2 months.

Japanese quince?
A Turkish recipe for the conventional (wild pear related), quince is to halve them, scoop out the middle, fill will sugar solution/ or grape pekmez, a replace the small seeds.
Pop in the oven until tender. (The seeds should lend a pinky colour to the cooked flesh).

Ohh...

Thanks all! I'll pick what remains next time I'm there.

That's very normal with the mild Autumn we get

Still have penstemon, various roses, heuchera and loads of fuschia flowering outside and strangely, a solitary late sweet pea.

Late spring here in NZ, so veggies are coming on. Also have carrots in half barrels with nice loose soil/sand, tomatoes, raspberries being eaten by the birds even with netting, redcurrants doing nothing but growing leaves, herbs growing like mad and a beech tree that thinks it is autumn and is covering the place with dead leaves.

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Another vote for Quince. You need to make membrillo