Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Thanks chaps. Health woes hindering cycling, so it's a welcome distraction. Lessons so far: Salvias are easy peasy, Choysia and Euonymus not so much.

The landlord had a Choysia shrub and it grew like mad.

Belfast clay soil and wouldn't get hit by a lot of direct sunlight (due to garden facing East not due to the temperamental weather) so interesting it doesn't do well for you.

We had zero care just trim it once a year.

I only managed to get one cutting to take. Soil is super loose and powdery. It's an OK bush now, but a bit leggy and hollow. It's fighting for space now too?
Partially solved the Euonymus problem by planting in the boarder. Did not like pot life.

Strawberry plants starting to produce

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Impressed yours made it to bowl, ours go straight down the gullet. Been a good year for our blueberries too which reminds me I need to net them before the birds remember where they are.

Our new garden has a slope all around. And it's 20 meters of it.

Basically we are on a slope and other gardens are higher. No bother, except

Weeds, weeds WEEDS
The neighbours bramble roots just go in our garden and FFS they pop up everywhere
You don't want to fall going up

So, I am thinking:
Put a membrane to kill the weeds (rescue what plants I want as Vetch is actually cool)
Make a rockery style garden with step areas to walk on as you really need to do some deweeding
And then use a combination of ground cover plants/plants that don't need cutting etc. so I don't need to get up there too often

Any thoughts? (no, there is no £ for a retaining wall. It's also a 20 meter perimeter so that be some ££££££££££££)(also a losing battle as the upper neighbours have trees so...yeah...roots n stuff...)

EDIT yes that fence is on the way out, plan is to add something plant can grow against. The neighbour's Clematis is already in on that trend and has come over into our garden :)

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Look great, no slugs where you are? :)

There were a few nibbles, but we're on top of the slugs and snails. Slugs get dispatched on sight and snails get yeeted over the back fence into the railway.

This year we've put Strulch down which doesn't seem to have stopped them as much as I'd hoped, but it's not turned into a slugfest either.

Harvested a cabbage planted last autumn

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Garden lights, solar powered or possibly via plug, maybe some of both, any suggestions? Hue is obvious, Nordlux isn’t solar…

Not posted here in a while.

A before and several afters - two years apart I think but only one of those actually spent doing any gardening.

Loads of stuff I still want to sort out, chop and change etc, but I'm happy with this!

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Ha, my (very small) garden actually started with about fifteen leylandi thanks to the previous owners. Most have been removed but a few relocated to cover next door's ugly shed as buying something to cover a 5m wide x 2.5m high expanse is not cheap. They are being aggressively pruned (or, in my girlfriend's words "butchered") as it is a very small garden.

My girlfriend got a bit carried away sowing seeds for sunflowers, expecting most of them to not germinate. We now have a shedload of sunflowers growing in this stretch (about 5' long). Should we thin them out, and if so what to, or just leave them to battle it out?

Lush, Gert lush 👍🏼

Nice, @lemonade - fields of green 🥰

Also love the thing you built, this elevated terrace (not sure what you call those) 👍

Attempting yard long beans in our porch which gets very hot during the day. Tried them outside last year without success

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Get thee sen on gardeners world!

Very nice. Love the Acer.

Ah very kind everyone

I have thought about doing one of those short videos, all the hard work would be worth it to hear Monty complement it (which he always does).

But it's too unfinished still - maybe next year

I'd just let the battle for light commence and the strongest ones will make themselves known
then thin out the stragglers

Love this garden so much! Perfectly layered

New rose is starting to flower

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love the garden - an oasis

What are these plants?

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My favourite part of the week is watching gardeners world in bed on Saturday morning with breakfast. Waiting for those birds tweeting and those soft words

Hello and welcome to gardeners world

To think my Saturday morning used to be walking out of a club and going to bed