Does anyone know anything about gardening?

As long as fungal inhabitants of a garden are not Honey Fungus, (the above look to be the wrong colour, so you're safe), they are an indicator of a healthy soil.
It is the symbiotic interplay between plant roots and fungal hyphae that contributes to soil health, with fungal activation of phosphate minerals from the soil being 'traded' for sugars with plant roots being the most commonly referenced.

As long as you don't have a child who might be tempted to eat the above fruiting bodies, just leave them. If you really don't like them, collect them and put them in your compost bin.

Gievn suitable weather conditions, (normally in the UK 'Autumnal', reasonable temperatures, damp, but no frost), they'll be back.

I’ll try this here… I guess not all pond liners are created equal. Recommendation?

Cheers all. We do have a small child and although she isn't likely to eat them she may pick them and then stick her fingers in her mouth. This lawn has been down for 4 years so just seems weird they've all appeared in the past week.

Just a perfect mix of conditions. Maybe turn it into an activity. Make your spawn collect all the mushrooms with you, then straight on the hand-dettol.

Something is eating my dahlias at my allotment. My money is on a monkjack. Never had this last year

Muntjac

Monkeyjehovah.

Managed to get up on the wall yesterday and push most of it off.

It’s a matted blend of soil (assuming composted leaf matter), ivy, and tree.

I had asked the council to sort their trees and shrubs out on the other side but they apparently do it barely twice a year.

Also made a start on the nature pond. There was a circle of stones filled with rubble that I assume was the old pond filled in. Should be deep enough but going to make it just-so before lining.

Hopefully the pond will tempt all the frogs that currently hide in the fence. They need to earn their keep and destroy the slugs.

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Not that I would recommend to do this with a death cap or something, but it is perfectly safe to taste and spit out even highly toxic mushrooms, you really need to ingest them to suffer ill effects. Handling mushrooms is nothing to worry about.

We returned from holiday to quite a few through the lawn as well. They don't worry me but the birds and a quick mow seemed to see them away!

Fox gloves doing crazy things. I've only ever planted wite or apricot ones so these ones must have self seeded. 6ft plus.

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There are brown mottlegills appearing all over the place around us, these past few days.

Possibly your white/orange Foxgloves flowers were fertilised by insects that had visited wild/natural plants?

Butyl not pvc.

Heavy and a awkward but works. Wait for a hot day so you can lay it out and get it pliable.

That's a great wall to have at the back of your garden - and much better for having the ivy removed.

I think we've got the same spade as well, it's a beast.

Aha yes I permanently borrowed it from dad. It has survived some misuse in the garden already.

Any nearby trees been chopped down in the last year or two?

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/17713/6803cc79-526f-ee11-8124-00155d9dea00
Open gardens in De Beauvoir today

Turns out that the squash and sunflower leave as are almost the same (there's chillies in that photo, just to be confusing).

The squash leaves are a bit lighter, though, and then they just started sprouting flowers, which helped differentiate them.

I planted them all out yesterday, because we've run out of space indoors.

All my sunflowers got slugged, annoyingly

Any idea what these are?

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2nd Jerusalem Sage, third is Bears Breeches

My app says the first is catnip.

Thanks very much. The catnip was covered in bees so need to get some of that

Bears Breeches spread underground everywhere and are an arse to get rid of