Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Thank you @RubberDucky & @spindrift - yea that must be it.
When taking walks recently I admired the beautiful canopys it forms / how well it climbs trees - though I have learned now that they can actually suffocate other plants - and even are, according to Wikipedia, declared an "unwanted organism" in New Zealand!
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can anyone help?

I'm looking for a load of these - large plastic pots (at least 12"/30cm wide). happy to pickup from anywhere. just rather not buy a whole load of new plastic in these days. thanks!!!

Snowdrop, crocus and, I think, bluebell shoots are showing their heads.

Bring it on!

I got a load from a landscape gardener who had just done someones new development.
He was advertising them on freecycle (years ago).
Maybe ring around landscapers and keep an eye on any new developments happening in your area.

thank you!

Got some pink apple fir potato tubers going for free. Got delivered too many. Can be grown in rubble sacks. Collection from SE15.

WOuld LOVE them, too far, anyone near should leap on it, they are cracking waxy little salad spuds.

New visitor saying hello to the pigeons.

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Wow!

Sparrowhawk ?

Yes. He (probably a she) has been thrashing across the garden from time to time but this is only the third pigeon known to have been taken. It's a shame it doesn't take a few Ring-necked Parakeets as well as the feral pigeons.

Savage! Seen a sparrowhawk hanging out in Burgess Park recently.

Ring-necked Parakeets

Some of them were born here y'know ?

Hawks is full carnivore, they don’t eat greens.

I'd love it if it takes all the pigeons but I have a nice selection of assorted birdies visiting my feeding station. As Elton once sang "That's the circle.......the circle of life"

Awesome stuff! I disturbed one in my parents' garden many years ago and stopped it taking a small bird from their feeder. It sat on the patio table staring at me through the kitchen window for ages. Scary yellow eyes!
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I have snow drops. Yay.

I planted a hundred in the green last spring and I have about twenty to twenty five sprouting now. Not a bad ratio, I've heard.

One has a flower already.

Hopefully in the years to come I will get some proper clumps.

In other news, my (pray for it) apple tree has survived the winter!

I have just cut down it's leader to leave two radial branches and will train them out this year on the wire I have installed.

What veg seed should I be planting over the next few weeks? Just got the balcony in order and will prepare the pots and planters over the next few days and give them a clingfilm lid to warm up the soil.
Just started the following seeds in windowsill propagators:
8x toms
4x pepper
4x jalapeño
4x chilli
Basil
Spinach
Rocket

Is it too early to start beans on the windowsill? What else can crack on now?

Bit early for tomatoes - make sure you bring them in if there is a hint of a frost.

What beans are you thinking of? Broad beans should definitely be in soon.

The toms and pepper seeds are on the windowsill in the bedroom tucked under a propagater lid so they’ll be fine.
It’s borlotti beans we’ve got, just looked at the packet, says late March outdoor so might start them inside soonish.

Rocket and spinach broke the surface yesterday. Exciting times!
Planted mini carrots, chives and mint seed this morning. Windowsills and greenhouse tent now pretty full.

Dug over the weed veg patch yesterday...veggies soon come.

planted garlic today, something lovely about pushing the cloves into the ground..it's nearly spring!

Two days of sunshine and the Dutch irises have appeared: