Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Ceropegia woodii

that's lovely - any chance of it having babies?

Apparently it's really easy to propagate so we'll see

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My compost bin has been listing more and more over the last few months, decided to empty it to have a look at the contents and then relocate the bin a couple of metres to the left on a flatter spot... Wow, what a micro-environment! A family of mice, worms aplenty and every insect known to man... Wasn't very good compost, some leaves and twigs hadn't rotted down but I hadn't been layering properly when I started anyway... I put everything back in with a layer of shredded paper every six inches, I'm hoping this will do the trick over the next six months and I'll be able to use the compost in a new veggie bed...

My veggie patch still isn't very successful, rocket and bokchoi have been great, got a few green beans and snow peas, maybe a handful... Courgettes were a disaster as were the peppers and the aubergines have flowered but that's about it... I'm giving them another week... Got a little bit of broccolini this week, tasty but tiny yield...

Sowed lots of cavolo nero and they've sprouted OK, hoping for good things as I've got a commercial juicer arriving any day now... I'm a shit gardener... One generation, that's all it takes to lose the knack... I've let my whole family down... 😂

Cool. Would love one if successful. Happy to trade for other plants / beer etc.

Cross-posting from the house plant thread: can anybody tell what plant this is please?

Banana?

Haha, no.

I do have a little banana plant as well though -

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Looks like castanospermum australe

Yes, that seems to be it! Thank you!

A bit of thought put into the vase there, I see what you did.

Yes, that was completely intentional and highly thoughtful of me

I had fruit last year

Anytime you need a leak either do it on the compost or into something you can pour it from into the compost. A wee bit of wee now and again helps with the compost breakdown. And no, I'm not taking the piss.

into something you can pour it from into the compost

..as in: when it's inconvenient to directly piss onto the compost as it's raining or something, so you piss in a flower vase you have standing nearby, so you can "pour it from into the compost" later?

yes.

comfrey also works

^ and nettles, if I recall correctly

Liquid gold or amber nectar.

Apparently the first wee of the day is the best too.... fuck knows what the neighbour's might think. Hopefully wont wake up to a lawn of frozen sausages

6 litre milk carton by your bedside and you're golden ( showers )

6 litres??? I'd say you have a problem there.

6 litre milk carton by your bedside

^boast post

have you seen the size of the hole ! no boasting here
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it's also how the milk arrives
otherwise it's a stella can, and with those sharp edges and a less than alert mind in the middle of the night it makes for a nervy tinkle, i'll stick to the milk container

if i were to collect my piss, which i don't .... honest

Collect implies save rather than immediately reuse, we get it.

Shit! Garden has Japanese Knotweed.

Hard thing is I don't even have a garden! We are in the Upper Maisonette and its written into our Freehold shared lease that the garden with the weed is theirs, but we have just redone the front garden (Which is ours in the lease) and they paid half. makes it awkward to tell them we aren't paying half of the £1750 that its going to cost to remove the weeds.

Most annoying part is that it was them that wanted the front garden done up as they have rented the GF flat out. So i am left with a massive bill and having to organise the removal of the plant as i want to sell my house in the next year... Bastard Neighbours thread?