Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Saw some slug trails this morning, but they've only nibbled a few of the squash flowers thankfully.

Bit late, but the cuddly looking wild your garden guy on YouTube has a method that looks quite good of fleece, liner, fleece.

Came back from holiday to the garden looking nice. Plenty of slug/snail damage but not as bad as expected. Getting militant before heading off clearly paid dividends.

Ferns are doing amazingly this year. Could be weather. Could be just having a few years to bed in. Either way I'm loving them. The photos don't do them justice. I really need to work of my plant photography.

Also the heavy waft of the sent of Star Jasmine was a lovely welcome home.

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Lovely- what is the star jasmine growing against? A wall with wire ? Just bought a 180cm plant and want to train it on the front of the house to cover the cement covered bricks (left of the orange door)

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That is an excellent colour for a door

Yeah needs tying to wires.

Wish mine looked as good as Hugo's.

That’s catmint rather than catnip

Yeah was gonna say. Nepeta. My neighbor has loads and it looks amazing so I’ve put some in

The bottom 1m was just 3 half hearted thin wires to start. Then once it got above the door/really big I screwed a big rectangular section of chicken wire with screws and washers to grow it into a panel.

What you see is basically now just the strength of the core stems.

For your place I would start it off with 2-3 neat vertical steel wires a bit like this. Then once it's really getting going try the chicken wire panel.

To get to this stage must have taken the best part of 7yrs. I reckon I could have sped it up with a bigger plant to start and feeding from the get go (rather than 4yrs in).

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Yeah, it’s great, especially in a sunny spot. Sheffield Botanical Gardens has huge swathes of it, so I got some for my garden. Which is, of course, failing to thrive anywhere near as well.

I’d forgotten about a salty bucket of dead slugs and snails. Today a fox or something had knocked it over, where it all dried up, and absolutely fucking stank of death. Flies all over.

What is it?

I’ve just planted a climbing hydrangea but need to put something on the wall for it to cling to.

Climbing hydrangea are self clinging

Nothing to do with memes thread

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Galvanised steel wire secured with rawl plugs, screws and washers.

I think I probably would have coloured the screws by heating and cooling in oil.

Brilliant- looks amazing and thanks for the top tips👌

Awesome - new potatoes are one of the best things in life!

I want to have some windowboxes at the front of the house on my windowsills. Looking for something colourful, fairly long lasting flowers or other interest, doesn't grow too high and can cope with occasionally forgetting to water it. Any thoughts, cheers.

Erigeron karvinskianus (assuming decent amount of sun)

Nasturtium?

Lobelia is an annual and people think of as a bit "pub hanging baskets" but if you use them in single blocks like purple and combine with something like creeping rosemary it is really effective.

@rhowe Looking good. How do you know when they’re ready?

Wait for the leaves to die back, generally. You can see all the brown blotches - I was worried about them picking up some kind of infection or blight or something so decided it was time to eat.
You can also work it out from the number of weeks from planting - the label on the seed potatoes will give an indication.

So it’ll attach itself? Cool, less work for me

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Yeah in their second year they form aerial roots that will self cling

Well that’s exciting.

I’ve got a climbing hydrangea and a rambling rose at the front of the house. The idea is to cover the house if that’s possible.