Does anyone know anything about gardening?

How do you prevent slugs from eating the lupins?

If I put them in a bed they get devoured.

Had one in a pot this year and it thrived before absolutely wilting to death. Possibly because the tap root hit the bottom. (Although fuck knows)

I love lupins but cannot grow them.

It’s about the only damn plant in the garden that doesn’t have aphids though!

After years of trying and failing to grow lupins, I came up with the perfect solution: cheat. Slugs only really like younger lupins. Once they get past a certain stage the leaves lose their flavour and the slugs eat something else instead (my sunflowers this year). I just bought a decent sized lupin from the garden centre and et voila.

Time to buy a digger!

Might be a bit impractical, though, as it would be about the same size as the area I'm levelling.

But they are a lot of fun...

Probably a better bet to get a good rake and smash some pegs in the ground in a 2m grid sadly.

This seems like the way forward for retaining the path around the garden office

I'll likely go for old creosoted ones for a couple of reasons - they last forever, like you say, and they're cheaper.

I'm not worried about human contact as they just won't be anywhere that can be walked / played on.

And we'll wear overalls & gloves when I'm moving them (assuming I can rope my brother into lugging 100+kg lumps of wood around when he brings his chainsaw & trestle).

For the raised beds I'm planning, I'll have a look at untreated oak. The ones from my local timberyard are pretty pricey though.

If you have a heavy duty sack barrow, lift one end of the sleeper onto it and strap it on, then one person can lift the other end and trundle it round fairly easily. I once had two guys in training for Britain's Strongest Man shift two dozen up 43 steps with 2 turns. They didn't go to the gym that evening.....

I was about to say that I have a hand truck. Then I discovered that a sack barrow is pretty much the same thing. Every day is a learning day.

Kohlrabi.

Does anyone know when/what sort of size you can pick the leaves, if you want to cook and eat the leaves rather than the... fruit(?)

I had to Google to find 'sack barrow', most of us (alleged) pros just call them 'wheels', which I didn't think would help. I dislike the bullshit Swahili which tradesmen use to mystify clients into believing they are superior beings.

"Get a bubble on that."

Any idea of what this may be?

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Poppy.

Hard to get an idea of scale, but it looks chunky. Score the round thing - you never know you may be in luck.

Didn’t know they came in more colours than red, are the seeds edible or the ones used in cakes come from an special type?

I thought before it flowered you scraped the bud, wiped the sticky goo on a rizla, skinned up.

That too... but we are mainly into non-psychotropic edible

Lovely, I've let them have space at my allotment where they grow as weeds, first flowers this week.

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That is precisely what I thought ALL poppies looked like... beautiful colours! (ours is more like faded jeans 😂)

Welsh poppies are yellow

This is our poppy about a week ago, sadly lost a few heads in recent wind.

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And the Peony we split and moved last year has flowered as well.

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ikd if they're technically poppies, but we've got Californian Poppies as well as yellow ones. They're awesome. Fairly invasive, but such a happy colour, good height and open out in the sun.