Does anyone know anything about gardening?

I think you're right! These leaves have been growing in my strawberry pots so I just assumed they were strawberries. On closer inspection they're definitely not. They're in two out of three of my strawberry pots, the other one is now full of fruit.

Some sort of weed perhaps?

Does look like mint, give em a smell

Or maybe lemon balm.
+1 for give em a smell

You might be right, I had lemon balm in them years ago. But the soil has been changed and tulips and strawberries in there since. Could the lemon balm survive that?

I'll give em a sniff when I get home!

I'm sure lemon balm could survive that. It's super hardy, grows like mint.

both these can be safely cut back at this time of year?

edit, now with pics

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First one's mahonia, yellow flowers in spring. I dunno about pruning, soz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac

Don't know if UK-grown plants give rise to 'fruits' worth drying and crushing into the sumac 'powder/dust/flakes' used as a salad dressing in Turkish/east Med cuisine.

Do you need to trim/prune now?

Home now gave em a good sniff, no odour whatsoever :/

i dont need to now, just have the time for once, however, the sumac is supporting the grape vine coming over from next door. From there it gets up into the eaves so removing the vine and the support.

mahonia pruning best done in late summer. that'll do.

Do not eat

So this is how my kale is looking today

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I dealt with this set back in a calm and adult way

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Damn!
All eaten by caterpillars?
Caterpillars get dropped by birds apparently and then make a new home in your brassicas. Nets will help in the future.
Fuckers got my Brussels one year - genocide ensued.

EDIT: Eggs are laid by butterflies (makes more sense)

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=457

My cabbages got absolutely decimated overnight by cabbage white caterpillars one year, so frustrating

My swedes were getting on so nicely but have been ruined over the weekend by slugs and caterpillars. So gutted as it's my first time growing them in the new place; I'm hoping that they manage to recover with the few leaves that survived.

More seeds purchased. Netting is next.

Crush a leaf and sniff.

That's what I was doing I'm afraid. No real smell to speak of. Definitely nothing as strong as lemon or mint.

Well I was convinced it was mint when I saw it. Compost the freeloader!

Unless it's mint, then don't let it near any soil you don't want minty

My grass/rubber matting interface seems to be working. I'll give it another couple of weeks before I let the dog near it. Phone pic is quite shit.

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Real-life Two Ronnies sketch averted.

Under £40 the pair in the Toolstation Clearance Lines sale.

5 year guarantee, you say? Challenge accepted!

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Productive after-work allotment trip

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