Does anyone know anything about gardening?

FFS

Down to two* plants and one of them had a similar looking tomato, although no other signs.

Wondering if I try and cut bits off this one or just put it out the front as it's in a pot.

*Out if 10

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When I finished work yesterday I went down to see how mini_com and the nanny were doing. Found them with about 20 green little tomatoes in a plaster mixing bucket with a load of stones and shells making "soup"......

Private address surcharge and £12 delivery! Ow much !!!

yeah but it still works out cheaper than anywhere else. I literally did the research for you :P

£3.63 per rod delivered

Yeah my MIL did that with my chives. Why when the lawn is made of fucking grass?

Took about a month of reverse learning to stop it.

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Edit link here as the other one is to your basket

https://www.nvf.co.uk/product/6mm-diameter-round-bar-3000mm-long-2-2f/

And the tap on the water butt was just wide open spilling my precious precious rain water onto the patio.....

I'm all for messy, creative play, but come on.

I'm sure you could do a neater job, but it was extremely simple to knock up quickly.

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She didn't open it, the nanny did.

Can't get my head around how to get the block of wood with a hole in it over the tap lol

Bummer. Our toms are suffering a bit but we have removed any signs of blight ASAP and one solitary tomato that had gone soft while still on the vine.

The rest of them are looking good though

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Ah cheers! I actually reckon you could get the to swing the £9 but I just couldn't be arsed to call them yesterday

Take the tap out. Put threaded section through hole. Screw tap back in.

When measuring the hole measure the widest part of the whole assembly, not the thread.

Tranquil setting, then you hear the flipping spitfire tours growling over head. This is 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and don’t you blooming forgot it..

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I think it's extra disappointing as last year I had tonnes but also did loads of veg - vastly overestimating my capacity with a toddler.

This year with an extra kid, I thought I'd keep it really simple; toms, lemon cucumber, gherkins, and fat baby.

Only one lemon cucumber made it and has been doing sweet FA, fat baby is insane but only now starting to bare fruit, so ikd if that will produce anything. Gherkins have been alright, but I swear I've had as many off 6 this year as I had off two last year.

Went to Hauser & Wirth in Bruton on Tuesday - the garden designed by Piet Oudolf is just so beautiful. Got me excited to get back in the garden

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^ nice! Really like the first shot..

The fine feral buddleia in the neighbour's rear wall adds a lot to my garden 😀

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garden stage 2 initiated tonight with an initial consultation for a "conceptual garden design" (!) whatever one of those is

Wow, I have always wanted to do a conceptual garden design, but have only been building gardens for 18 years so am far too inexperienced and stupid.

It is slightly more important to build correctly. I give the eagerly waiting forum 'how not to build a retaining wall'. Two skins of blocks on end, with a void between and no weep holes to allow for drainage, the structural strengh of wet spaghetti would be greater. This beauty was only holding back a few hundred tons of permanently wet soil. Four inches of mortar masquerading as foundations was an added bonus.

'Is the breach practicable, Captain Sharpe?'.

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@ColinTheBald you seem like the perfect person to ask. My garden is mostly on top of/behind a big retaining wall that stops it from collapsing into the back of my house. In between house and retaining wall are the stairs, which are made of breezeblocks. Under the stairs is a cupboard/shed of sorts but it's rubbish, can't fit a bike in the door and it's not at all waterproof.

I am imagining taking out the breezeblock stairs and replacing them with a metal fire escape style staircase. This would free up a tonne of space under the stairs for me to install a proper bike shed.

My only fear is whether the stairs are supporting the retaining wall, and taking them out might result in horrendous collapse. Is that ridiculous paranoia or legitimate concern?

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The retaining wall should be continuous to the foundations behind the steps, particularly if it's all that is protecting the house. 99 times out of 100 this will be the case and fire escape stairs to replace the current horrors would be an excellent idea. Somewhere I have a picture of some where I created a seating area by decking between them and a garden wall, protecting a storage area beneath.

*not all builders are created equal, get someone to have a look.

Found it! I put a hidden felted shed-type roof beneath it, that area is used for storing bikes...

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Fancy a job in Bristol next spring?

Fancy labouring for me (I pay terribly)? In all honesty, I like Bristol, I used to do a lot down there as a marketing consultant to the Audit Commission. But someone has to pay for overnight stays.....