Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Finally got these lovely pansies going 😊

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How long before I kill this taro?

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Hipster macramé action in the porch

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Yellow dahlia I nicked from a skip outside a garden centre:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/7BU2pH6VmeaU3q4q9

Lovely, will you plant it out? Is it an edible variety?

I'm not sure how it'll do over the winter. I think we might stick it in a pot and bring it in as a winter houseplant if it survives that long. Apparently it puts out a leaf every week?!
I think it should be edible although all taros are poisonous unless cooked. Not sure if you can eat it without killing it through - it's the tuber you eat right?

Lovely. Do you not have a problem with things (plants in pots, ornaments etc) getting pinched from front gardens?

Clay pot will definitely help specially in this heat. Just found out about taros in the latest Gardeners World (lovely Jamaican lady with tropical garden in the UK used it to get the garden looking jungly). Tbh did not know about them before (despite of having an elephant's ear in the living room)

Got a pot in mind but it's got a dahlia in it at the moment. For now it'll have to be content with a regular dunking in a bucket

Not yet but I don't doubt it's a problem. The only things we plan to put outside are going to take quite an effort to move if anyone wants to take them. Porch door is usually locked so the plants are safe from everything apart from the scorching heat

Round here a van pulls up in the middle of the night and even fairly big trees in pots get bundled away. A full size bench went from a community garden.

We had a couple of small butternut squash that didn't develop properly and started to shrivel up. Assumed they weren't fertilised properly. Now this one which is quite a bit further along has started to shrivel too. Any ideas why?

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^ Too dry?

my cookers have got sunburn

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too dry?

edit - too late as well!

Too dry

Probably this. Squash are thirsty, thirsty little bastards. Drown them, and then drown them again. They love a bit of it.

OK will give them more. Watering the same amount as last year, but might just be that it's a bit hotter this year.

I think it is the very warm overnight temperatures that are the big difference.

should that shrivelly one be cut off? unlikely to recover?

There is so much fox shit in my back garden I can hear the flies from the 1st floor bedroom at the front.

Same here with cats, really starting to hate the bastards... (apologies to cat lovers). @hoefla where are you? Just asking because I just started improving the front with some fancy pots and plants 🤞🏻and tbh I rather they don’t end up on Gumtree...

Catford but I don't think front garden thievery is unique to the area

Being fertilised should only affect the seed. Squash can be pretty needy so put on plenty of fertiliser and water.

does anyone have a reccomendation for large quantities of garden waste removal? We've cleared a large garden and now need to dispose of the waste. it's mostly just old bushes cut down. In se11 if that makes a difference

Yes, I've heard plenty of tales of stuff being nicked in Haringey.

I gather this kind of thing is popular https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Security-cable-for-plant-pot-anti-theft-security-POT-LOCK-/202082227570