Please don’t make posts asking for mushroom identification help.

I'm just as surprised they have actually become proper olives! Lots of small ones and a few big ones. Can I actually do something with them? Are the teeny tiny ones still edible?

This was the snail army marching over the path yesterday evening. Back after the hot summer.

Always wanted to have a veg patch. This year I trialled it on a small area in my back garden. Fortunately this summer brought lots of heat in the UK and my south facing veg patch had enough of sunlight to boost my confidence as a beginner gardener. Added few clicks of my hard work.

Would love to turn this small space into a pretty/cosy wildlife haven if possible, any ideas as to how I would go about this? or pointers where to start/learn (first time having outdoor space).

Faces west with about 80% shade from the garage covering the grass

My lovely happy little hebe has come over all spotty and is dropping its leaves. It's been the picture of health since I got it and I'm very fond of it so I'd love to find a way to save it. I'm guessing it's some sort of fungal thing but I'm finding it hard to pin down the exact one and how / if to treat it. There seems to be new growth low down on the stems where the old leaves have fallen off.

I also have some other precious plants nearby, all in containers, so need to know if I should isolate the hebe or get rid of it to cut my losses?

Lantana plants UK - when to bring indoors ? This Lantana still has new flowers budding. It’s early October and some nights will be down to 7 or 8 degrees.
It needs to be smaller to come inside - do I just prune back the new growth, flowers and all ? Seems such a shame

Thought I'd mention here how I compost my kitchen green scraps, egg shells, etc and garden waste as I struggled to find anything about it here and think this is a good method and it works well for me.

I collect all green kitchen scraps over a year into a 100l water butt, 2 bed, 2 people house. At the bottom it's filled with gravel and it has a tap and I regularly drain any liquid and use it around the garden. I also add any shredded paper into that water butt that we collect at the same time, mail, random flyers, etc.

After a year, partly rotten at this point, I transfer it all into a tumbling composter, this then further compost over spring and summer and in the following autumn I get it all out, fully dried at this point but clumpy and not that usable really and shred everything as per pics into a fine compost, ready to be used next spring.

Any of these garden shredders will work well with dried mostly composted stuff like this.

I normally grow tomatoes in it and get excellent results!

Hello, we are thinking of purchasing a property (South East), quite far in the process, but only recently noticed the neighbour has a large area of bamboo which touches the fence and quite close to my (future? or not) house itself. We didn't pay attention originally as we were simply unaware of the risks of bamboo. Now we do.

CCTV drain survey was just done today and they said the drains are in pretty good condition, no sign of bamboo there.

On "my" property side I noticed 1 shoot sneaking underneath the fence, that's all, no sign of encroachment.

I talked to the neighbour today, he said it's clumping bamboo, and it was planted roughly 15 years ago. I didn't ask to check his garden (they looked as if they just woke up, maybe another time) but I took photos from my side. They reach about 4 metres high on a length of about 8 m. They all look quite thin with long leaves.

Is there any way at all to know from these photos what kind of bamboo this is?

TIA

Following on from my post the other day asking where on earth to start with my garden, I thought I'd share a little update!

My neighbour very kindly gave me an old petrol lawnmower for free! After a bit of fiddling around, I managed to get it going and give the garden its first proper cut.

It's still more weeds than grass, but it's already looking a bit better. Small steps!

My husband and I are not big fans of my brother-in-law, but family is family and we’re obligated to buy him a Christmas present. He is an avid vegetable grower, so my husband suggested buying him elephant dung for fertiliser as a genuinely useful gift while also subtly telling him how we really feel (“Merry Christmas! Here’s a bag of shit.”).

We have had a look, but are unsure of where to buy this. Can anyone give any suggestions as to where we could buy some affordable but effective animal dung fertiliser? It does not have to be elephant dung. We’re based in Scotland, if that’s of any help.

Plenty of green chutney to be made!

I was scarifying and doing some patch repair when I raked up what I believe is a cockchafer grub? Im not 100% sure. Can I get a positive ID before I recommend nematodes.

I hope this is ok to post otherwise I'll try r/whatisthisbug

I've never made leaf mould before but I don't have space for a compost heap or compost bin so I wanted to at least give this a go. I don't have any trees but I have leaves come into my garden from neighbours' trees, particularly one that is, I think, a Whitebeam.

I've been collecting the leaves and putting them in a black bag with a bit of moisture but also drainage holes. I'm just wondering, as the leaves are in various states when I collect them and I don't know much about trees, do I need to be worried about leaves maybe being diseased and then me spreading that into my garden when I use the lead mould?

We are looking at buying a house which has a fairly substantial garden - not gigantic but maybe the size of 1/4 football field. It has a big lawn, borders with trees and shrubs down two sides, a tiered veggie patch and a large hedge (maybe 15-20 ft high) down one side of the garden and along the front of the house. I’m aware that we’ll need a gardener to keep it looking nice as we both work full time, and am trying to understand how much that’s likely to add to our costs each month. What are your views on how often we’ll need someone to come? It’s mainly maintenance (esp for the big hedge!). I’m happy to take care of the lawns myself. Would fortnightly be enough or is this a weekly job?

What do we think? I've seen quite a few posts by people taking cuttings of various plants over the past month or so. Am I too late? I'd want to take cuttings from my Hot Lips Salvia.

EDIT: amazing, thank you everyone! Going to give it a shot and see what happens!

It's wet, it's windy.

I hate being cold and wet or being windswept. But I also hate being gross and sweaty in a set of waterproofs and easily overheat (and have MS so overheating is best avoided). And many coats are restrictive enough to annoy me doing certain tasks.

I also like to do physical work on the garden/allotment to relax so I usually just tough it out.

I want to keep going to the allotment over the winter and actually enjoy it, and willing to throw money at it, so what's the "no holds barred" purchase options for being comfortable when the weather is being its usual self?

I'm new to fruit trees. A year or two ago I bought a Warwickshire Drooper on a pixy rootstock. I staked the tree as it came as a tiny stick, and have a new branch very low down (right hand side on this pic) and which has different sized leaves, and I think one is the Drooper and one is from the rootstock. I'm not sure which to cut off though! I waited till the bark was a bit thicker and I could see the graft more clearly but I'm still not sure.

It seems likely that next year could be another hot and dry one (what with that pesky El Nino happening). This year was brutal and my garden really suffered. I'm based in Cambridgeshire which is one of the driest parts of the country anyway, so after the hell of this year, I'm dreading the next!

I'm also on clay soil and so the soil is very hard, the drought made that worse.

Right now, I'm planting more trees to try and create some shade (eventually) in the garden.

I'm also thinking about using hay to mulch all the beds that get baked by full sun all day.

What are you all planning? Any plants that have been stars this year? Please share you ideas so I stand a chance next year 🤞

I'm worried my rose isn't happy? I was given it as a bare root in spring, and it's been potted since. It flowered over summer.

Should I be doing something with it to cheer it up? Or is this normal? Should I be worried?!

Think it might have been the half a box of chicken manure I accidentally spilled on it

I'm planning a new vegetable garden, and want plastic grass edging around the beds, with paths in between. I'm gonna need around 150 meters of it to get the size and shape I want (a flower shape, with a round center and petal shaped beds surrounding that). Regular grass edging honestly seems quite expensive for what is it. Cable covers like https://www.jointingtech.co.uk/Cable-Protection-Covers is a lot cheaper at the thickness and width I want, and except for the color, it seems to be pretty much the same thing. Has anyone tried using that as an alternative?

I’m looking for suggestions for trousers to get me through this winter. I work full time on a large estate, lots of orchard and walled garden work, plenty digging, and scrabbling about on my knees.

I tried the hunting trousers from Decathlon, they were around £50, hard wearing but they feel very synthetic on my legs, and the shape was weird around my waste.

I need lots of stretch, as my legs are thick and rather unforgiving to trousers - if they don’t stretch they tear.

Thanks:)