Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Ha ha I made similar tools out of a snapped Marin frame

Status of the grass-berm

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Rad!

Sichuan pepper harvest

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Very cool. Do you get a decent amount of heat and/or flavour off your harvest?

Yeah they are just as potent as those you get from Chinatown supermarkets, maybe more so. It's a pretty tree as well with great autumn colour and killer spines.

Will have to find one for the garden

Didn't know they grew in the UK :)

Christmas present list added

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Oo good reminder to check ours, it's in its 2nd year now so will hopefully get a small harvest

I've got loads of seeds if you want to give them a shot. Got ours as a 3' potted plant I think. No idea how long it would take to produce from seed

Thanks. For the sake of £10 I'll buy a small plant

Do you have a pic of your plant?

Lawn has really come along. Shame it will get destroyed by this monster.

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It's a bit lanky. Wondering if I can persuade some side shoots without taking the top off

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Do you plan to keep it potted? If so, it looks to me like it would benefit from a larger one.

Yeah I've got a larger pot with an acer in it which could probably do with going up a size and the albizia in the background is lusting after the sichuan pepper's pot so a repotting party is on the cards once I've found one I like.

Zero knowledge of these, but I'd cut it down to where the lower growth stops, trim back some of the longer side shoots - basically prune it like a bonsai, and repot it. Then trim down the cut off top peice, wack some hormone on it and try to grow it on.

Are those tomatoes still going strong in the greenhouse?!

Who was it who was asking about winter flowers? Walked past this garden on the way to school. Not my style, but wondered if I could incorporate these flowers (Chrysanthemums?) in different colours in a cooler way into my garden for autumn colour.

Also my fuchsia and whatever this en trend salvia*is called are still doing well. Surprised about the fuchsia as it's looked pretty ropey all year, so am trying to give it some love with thorough weeding, manure and mulch ahead of winter.

*Salvia ‘Amistad' I think

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They're pretty much done now - those photos were a few weeks ago. Harvested the last of them last weekend and took the plants out. We hadn't been opening the doors so it got a bit damp and things started to get mouldy/blight.

Ah that makes sense. Looks like they've done well though

Thanks for the pictures, I've never seen the growing tree, just the dried berries.

Many hardwoods can be induced to produce side growth. Hawthorn, as in laid hedges, will reliably produce a shoot the root side of a 'nick' in the bark.
(Competitive hedgelayers will nick laid stems every 9 inches or so, to produce side growth to thicken up the laid hedge).
Do the existing branches grow from where the thorns are, or from where thorns are missing?

So it seems like there are a lot of Chrysanthemum varieties!

Finding a full sun spot when the sun is low is going to be the main challenge, so I'm going to keep an eye out over autumn and winter. But the main spot I was thinking is def out which is a shame.

Ones I like the look of and are a bit less old lady garden:
Chrysanthemum weyrichii

Chrysanthemum 'Stockton'

Chrysanthemum yezoense (flowers summer-winter)

Any recommendations for thin gardening gloves? Someone got me the niwaki ones for Christmas last year and I stuck one of my fingers through them pretty quickly. I like them for when I'm planting seeds or potting on.

These are good
https://tinkerandfix.co.uk/products/watson-gloves-flextime-leather-workshop-glove

For when you want thinner than that I just go for cheap builders gloves eg
https://www.jewson.co.uk/p/builders-latex-glove-black-xl-ZZB42BXL