Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Rain has unfortunately started to split my tomatoes so had to do some early picking.

Fundamentally I planted out too late and didn't manage the size of the plants. All lessons for next year though.

Also a bit sad that my OH refused to try our first picked one.

Funny round things on the left are lemon cucumbers that I'd thoroughly recommend. Climbing like gherkins once the vegetable starts growing it quickly reachs a good size.

1 Attachment

Yeah it’s very strange. Two packs of seeds, nothing else. Weird thing is full address and tel number on packaging.
We’ll report it on that email.

just had a thought, how permeable/environmentally OK is that? does it not shed rainwater?

A concrete slab ignores all the requirements of Sustainable (Urban) Drainage Systems, SuDS.

We had a giant oak tree fall over in a truly unbelievable storm recently, now have full sun in the back yard 730 am to 330 pm. Was struggling with only 4-5 hours this season. If we are still in this house next year, garden will be happy.

I pick earlier and let them sit on the sill. Helps with splitting and insects.

yeah I thought so... does your method use that brush in pointing compound where you need to spray it down?

Tomatoes: ours have gone very, very mealy.

Should we be picking them green to ripen off the vine? Something else? Or are they all doomed?

Might not ripen fully if very green. I once tried cooking green ones into a sauce but very sharp taste... If you have some new buds and flowers coming you might be better off taking the pale ones off so the energy goes into new flower and fruit production. Plants can keep cropping until first frosts

I’m looking to create a living roof but I want to have mainly blue plants that are quite low in height so they don’t get blown away any ideas?

Put down one of those wildflower seed mats a while ago. This chap has popped up today, any ideas what it is? I've lost the contents list of the mat.

1 Attachment

Looks a little like Mallow, but definitely not 100% on that.

Edit: probably too small for Mallow.

I thought mallow too. Have had morning glory as a suggestion as well. I've given it something to climb up in case.

You can trip balls with the seeds.

mainly blue plants

Most plant colours are seasonal, so blues are less likely to give you year round interest.

I may just through wildflower mix down then.

This is a wilkos wild flower mix

1 Attachment

Ah could be mirabilis could be convovulus

Cheers, going to let it grow a bit more and see what happens

nice

I think mallow too, maybe it'll grow!

bit more curiosity on sheds and their bases.

i have a shed that's basically fine apart from the base. i want to move the shed, so I was thinking dismantle into panels, build new base, put panels on new base.

BUT i wouldn't mind the shed being about a foot taller.

so here's where i plan to complicate things by building a little brick base about four courses high round the whole lot, then putting the panels on that.

if i do that, could i in any way get away with a paving slab base as described by @mespilus here? or does it have to be concrete?

Or just to confuse things, you could build your brick wall on a 4" concrete foundations. Then add a couple more lines of concrete foundations within the walls and use sleepers on edge (with damp proof course between them and the concrete) to support the shed. New sleepers are typically 2.4m long and two of them should do the job on a normal sized shed as the perimeter will be supported by the wall.

Have fun!

yeah boosting it up with a wooden base was an idea i had, but i kind of wanted the challenge of building a wall! cheers for the tips. it's all going into the garden design ideas book.