Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Sounds great! I’d not be too bothered about the garden plan personally, as that’s the fun bit to scribble on bits of paper — I’m spending way too much time at the moment searching for plants with specific attributes though and it just eats weekends and isn’t particularly fun.

Assuming you’ll need a large database of plant attributes, do you know of one that’s publicly available?

Found it pretty awkward to support tomatoes in the greenhouse last year. Hopefully this will be the answer

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The filtering would be really useful.

Agreed that creating a plan sounds less of a need. Better than a plan Imo would be an AR function to show you the plant in situ.

Rest of the garden starting to wake up. Someone mentioned everedge before - that's what the path is edged with and I'm happy so far (6 months or so in)

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Have you tried RHS plant finder?

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/search-form

Way back I used this one, click refine your search and check the boxes.

https://www.architecturalplants.com/plants/

What’s wrong with this Echinops? There’s one next to it that’s thriving. Has it just been decimated by slugs and snails and covered in slime?

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Looks more like caterpillar webs or similar. Look closely for little critters

A slug touched my hand today I nearly died

Stupidly, no! 🤦

Spider mites?

I've been picking them up all weekend and launching them into the railway behind the house

Nothing like a "surprise slug!!!!" touch when you don't wear gloves. Don't toss these guys though, leopard slugs eat other slugs.

App wise it would have a little chatbot to help pick a plant such as "im in a plant shop and need to get bedding, but i have slugs and clay" then "ok check for primula these will grow" or "I need 10 plants to fill shade no slugs" like chatgpt but more targeted.

Like beginners gardening but make it super easy to get going. Chatgpt lets you chain questions btw give it a go, no need to go to different sources as some list pollinator indoor, some post info... rarely it's all in one spot.

There might be something already to place plants on photo? If not a good idea :)

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What climbers do we think in these pics?

Can you make it slower?

One of them are vine leaves. You'll struggle to get grapes to eat in the UK, but they are nice to look at Imo.

My folks used to have them when I was little in a small London terrace garden.

Please help. My lawn, once a fairly lush green pleasant place to sit is now a barren wasteland most often resembling somewhere inhabited by wallowing animals. It has been on a downward trajectory ever since we had significant work done to our flat in early 2022 and they used the garden as general store and prep area. Due to various things, the garden never got the attention it needed to bring it back to life and the lawn was really finished off by the arrival of a massive puppy last September who was housebound for ~8 weeks whilst his jabs kicked in and he spent that time frolicking/trashing the garden. Generally, the lawn is shit, the ground rutted and uneven from the works and his intermittent digging. The dug-over section towards the back is where I have removed raised beds and turned the soil over getting rid of various weeds and escaped veg plants which were colonising. What I want to do is to try to regrow the lawn and turn the veg plots back to grass. I have bought a bag of mixed grass and clover seed. My assumption, from some brief reading, is as follows:

• flatten the dug-up earth (I have no suitable tools, but can probably do this with some large bits of wood lain over the patch and trodden down?)
  
• as best I can even out any dips/holes in the rest of the lawn and flatten this earth down
  
• leave for a couple weeks to see what weeds appear and pull them up (I won't actually have 2 weeks to leave it, but can manage 10 days)
  
• rake up a bit to loosen top soil and add some organic soil improver/light compost
  
• generously distribute seed per instructions
  
• water, if not forecast to rain
  
• keep puppy off the lawn for as long as possible (we are going away for 2.5 weeks after Easter, which is the window I'm looking at for lawn regrowth)
  
  

Is this a ridiculous idea? Am I better off not bothering with this and just getting some hardy turf down?
Anything I'm missing/getting massively wrong in this plan?

Also, any recommendations for hardy plants that might survive the attentions of an idiot puppy? I'm thinking grasses/ferns in the empty raised bed to the left, but might need to go established plants if they're to have any chance of survival.

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removed raised beds

Burn the heretic!

Yeah, I had a good run with raised beds but a) massive puppy is no respecter of horticulture and shits all over them, which does not make for desirable veg and b) we're having a baby this summer so, currently, lawn > veg tending, sadly.

Please help.

You'll be wanting pistonheads. Lfgss.com is not a lawn safe space.

Have a look on YouTube.

This guy has a few videos on it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe1599EyFYcfb2NmL8CZ_Xw

Including using low tech solutions.

But you're idea is fairly on point. Remember though we're only in March - the lawn will probably look like shit until May.

Check his vids for the one where he does his front, but I think basically you want to scarify, level, seed/overseed. I don't think there's a reason to give weeds time to establish.

Our lawn, which we inherited when we moved in about 15 months ago, has been trashed by our dog. We get lots of squirrels in the garden and the first thing he does when he's let out is run down the garden as fast as he can, brake hard, thus churning up the lawn, then start barking at any actual or perceived squirrels.

We don't plan to keep it, so it doesn't matter to us, but I think if you've got a young dog any hope of having a decent lawn is a pipe dream.

Here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAe3E7PApvg

If I was wanting to make a lawn there, I think I'd want to rotovate the whole lot, mix in a fair bit of sand, level it and then turf or seed.

But as you have a dog, it's probably not a viable plan.

Buy a box of seeds and follow instructions on the side. And buy or borrow a fork and rake.