Does anyone know anything about gardening?

you need to make sure the frame and fixings can take the mass of earth when it's wet

We'll find out thru the summer ;)

They should be fine. Double height ones are better apparently, as they allow the soil to warm quicker.

Have people started sowing tomatoes? Last year I started quite late.

Sowed my last week

Must get to work then!

Should add I sowed mine indoors in a toasty propagator

@bothwell that's not knotweed, the leaves are the wrong shape and arranged wrong. Don't know what it is though.

In other news, I harvested my first rhubarb over the weekend. Crumbletastic!

Yeah, still no idea what it is. It's had a few votes for honeysuckle and a couple for rhododendron/camellia and all of them look wrong to me. I guess I'll find out for sure when it either flowers or kills me in my sleep.

My pumpkin seedlings are sprouting, though! \o/

who's ready for south east swappery?

I have Romello tomatoes which are a small cherry plum variety. Ancho chilies, Pot Black chilies, and Ophelia Aubergines which are small. May also have some NuMex chilies if the seeds I saved from the chilies sprout.

I have some runner beans, purple sprouting broccoli and I think some cherry tomato seeds going if anyone wants them.

Did a great swap with @KT_Bee last year, the hollyhock is huge!

Dug the ground for potatoes yesterday...didn't actually plant them though but hey ho #marginalgains

where are you, @Kat_Balou?

Walworth, SE17

Excellent - I have some tiny poppies, nicotiana, loads of tomatoes and have planted some aquilegia and other flowers. Am also planning to do a few rounds of lettuce / rocket and have some courgette seeds I'm planting next month. Def up for swapsies when things are a bit bigger.

Nature provided some handy supports for our wonky apple tree when a 12ft Poplar branch landed in our garden during storms last week.

The previous ratchet strap solution wasn't working very well.

This fellow appeared in the front garden - is it a camellia? Or something less lovely. Going to turn the patch over so wondering whether to move it to a big pot.

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does anyone have beach pebbles? Preferably not too small, in about half the size of a human palm or thereabouts, looking to cover the soil on my balcony window box as well as other containered plants, think I need about 1-2kg, garden centers seem to do only big sizes 15kg plus...

Let me know

went through surrey docks farm a week or so ago and their peas and broad beans are well advanced and in the soil, flowers appearing
queue 24 broad bean and same qty of peas into pots last week
tomatoes and courgettes now underway aswell

Bay Leaves?

jagged edges don't look right

Definitely not.

Yeah I'm hopeful it's something pretty. I'll pot it, anyway.

Yep, Camellia, the tea family.