Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Anyone having trouble with standing water on their lawn at the moment?
I've not had it before but this year have a very large puddle -wondering if its a drainage issue that I will need to tackle to prevent it happening in future or just an exceptionally wet winter.

I've forked the ground loads but it's still there (and it keeps raining)...

Yes.

Can offer no solutions.

I fear with us the water level has risen such that there is nowhere to go.

Not sure about the waterlogged thing, but pears are supposed to not mind heavy soils.

We get standing water on our lawn in the winter. This year has more than most. I mostly try to stay off the lawn in the winter and otherwise let it happen.

My sister-in-law installed pumps that push it into the sewers. This feels like the wrong thing to do to me.

pears

We're not going to be here that long.

I’m looking for a tree surgeon servicing in SE11 if anyone’s got a recommendation, cheers!

just checked where that was - how can Kennington be SE?!

Because there are no S# postcodes. You have to be SW or SE. Even Parliament Square is SW.

I know I just assumed it would be SW

I've moved them to the back bedroom which is NE facing so not great but all the bright rooms have blinds because they face the street and it's like living in a display case.
I think the porch just got a bit too cold at night for them. They just need to survive a couple more months and they'll spring into life hopefully.
Watering has been a fine balancing act. They've not dried out but they have definitely perked up each time I've watered. Basically I've been waiting until the leaves start to droop a little and then they get a drink which gets them looking a bit better.

Sounds good!
Yes watering is a fine balancing act. Have to admit I have killed a number of plants by over or underwatering them during hibernation 😅

We do have a Chili Thread on here by the way if you want more input!

Because there are no S# postcodes

in london! the s stand for sheffield

I know right! It should be an SW really.

the s stand for sheffield

S stands for sloppy seconds. London used it until 1868.

ok

Because there are no S# postcodes. You have to be SW or SE. Even Parliament Square is SW.

And the postcode boundary between SW1 and SE1/SE11 is the Thames, before SW goes south of the river in SW8.

I've never heard of a place in London called 'Sheffield'. What are you talking about?

Not quite what I bought the propagator for, but she seems to like it

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is that a house pet?

started a pineapple plant today from the ripped-off top of a pineapple. leave in water until roots get 2" long and then pot out. we'll see how that goes.

Going back a few pages, regarding my garden wall I posted about, work has stopped for the winter while it's been way too wet/cold/dark to do much. Looking forward I'd like to fit a 2 or 3ft fence trellis above it for some extra privacy. Is there any way of doing this so it ends up in the centreline of the wall? I'm guessing trying to fix it to the top of the wall will pull it down with the first string wind.

I'm tempted to give a straightforward 'no'.

However, if the wall is strongly mortared together and is at least 8" wide at the top AND parts of the top course are perfectly level, you can bolt steel cups (boots) to the top and set posts into these. Trellis offers very little wind resistance. It would be far easier to build posts into the wall as you build it, about 5 courses deep should just about do it.

strongly mortared together

This I can't vouch for. Parts of it are falling apart from root damage and the rest of the mortar seems quite fragile. I hope to add some strength when I repair it but I imagine it's probably going to still be quite weak.

You could fit posts to the face(s) of the wall and then fit trellis to those. Would need to use shims to get it centred and it might all look a bit ugly. But I would think definitely sturdy enough, especially as you only want a 2-3ft trellis.

Let my trailing lobelia go to seed in their pots last year and had 100s of seedlings come up in between the patio stones.
Have carefully plucked a few planters worth out.
Hopefully, they'll take further and provide some early spring colour. Nothing like some free plants.

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