I am mostly doing a few herbs this year. My Pflücksalat survived the winter somehow… maybe I’ll get myself a couple tomato plants. But in the last few years space has been an issue and I rarely had more than a handful of tomatoes.
When we moved in here for two years I had so many tomatoes I was giving them to the neighbors.
Is Pflücksalat a specific type of lettuce, or just lettuce in general?
The lower half is the green chaos that is currently my garden. The little flowers make the bees very happy and so I am happy 
Will take some to my dad’s garden when we move there.
The upper half is the salad. This just leafs that you can pick one or two at a time instead of whole heads of salad.
pflücken = to pick
Sunny bank holiday weekend in the UK means lots of gardening!
My sister also helped me move the compost bin from one side of the garden to the other, which was quite an undertaking!
Slugs 
That is all.
Beer. slugs like beer. And then they drown.
I have also been known to hunt them with my kitchen scissors.
Brambles. That is not quite all. We have this magnolia, apparently grown from seed by the previous owner of the house, and next door’s brambles love to grow up into it…
I’ve been catapulting them over the back fence into the woods.
I did once make a habit of throwing snails into my neighbour’s garden (he didn’t mind - it was thoroughly overgrown anyway) but I am told they have a homing instinct.
(One day I opened my back window and found, up his sycamore tree, my Filipino neighbour from the next house along with a pair of shorts, a broad grin, and a great big saw.)
Hi folks, big fan, long time listener, first time caller.
I’ve got a mild hibiscus obsession and maaaaaybe jumped the gun a little this year. After recovering from an unexpected cold snap, I finally got my blooms going again…
…and then it snowed seed pods for two weeks straight. Anyone have any tips for “cobwebbing” on plants? The hibiscus itself is hearty enough that I can probably just “dust” it, but I’ve got some more delicate blooms (hanging plants) I’m worried about hurting.
Any advice is appreciated.
After the rain, everything looks even greener than usual at this time of the year. We had a few very warm days but so far we had quite a bit of rain at long last. Aquifers need filling. Winter was too dry around here. (Right now most of the rain is gobbled up by the greenery of course but there has been quite a bit of water coming down)
My herbs are also liking the water:
Mind… my garden ends at the hedge. The trees are outside of it but very much helping the illusion that the place is bigger than it is.
Today I’m very pleased with the flower beds:
Edit, because I’m not allowed to reply more than three times in a row…
A good crop of beans today:
Also hoping to get some sweetcorn. I’ve been hand pollinating to try and increase my chances:
Good luck with the corn ripening 
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I used to grow sweetcorn, but we rarely got to eat it. I swear the local badgers overheard our conversation “… just needs a few more days in the sun and it’ll be perfect…” and then swiped the lot that night. My alternative theory is that badgers are psychic.
My digging supervisor was on duty yesterday.
Also, planting colourful veg in the garden helps me find them amongst the foliage, before they get too enormous or stringy. Still not sure how this “master of disguise” hacked the system 
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hi, I’m new. I’m Canadian, live near Toronto.
I am also (for the third year) trying to grow Pohutukawa- Metrosideros Excelsa. which is from the Northern tip of NZ and really has absolutely no business growing in Ontario (I’m also a NZ citizen and it’s my favourite NZ tree.).
This year, I’m going to try 100 seeds each of red and yellow, and use a heat pad underneath the tray to give it a real shot (I hope). wish me luck
What a beautiful tree 
Do you have a greenhouse for it, or are you planning to try and grow it outdoors?
I have a little greenhousy thing to start the germination in- I’m going to start it just after christmas (when I get my heating pad, hopefully). My hope is to plant it out into a pot, and have it brave the outdoors sorta June-September or whatever, then I’ll move it inside into my kid’s room which has the most sun. And if more than one germinates then I’ll be giving them away. I doubt anybody else in Ontario has them
