Also, the rug really ties the room together.

stonechalice wrote:

Yeah I was very dubious about it for a long time but my mate convinced me when I saw his. It's come a long way in the last few years. Mine has brown bits woven in and bird shit and everything.

My old man has fake grass too. There's a fun build up of static electricity when you walk around on it

I think you should be fine with the seeds Nina.  The only reason to dry seeds is if you’re going to store them for a period of time - drying them stops them from going mushy and mouldy during storage.  Nasturtiums can self set too which is basically when the seeds drop into the soil themselves and new shoots start from there.  
New shoots can look like very fine grass - even on things you wouldn’t expect so, if you can, I’d leave those and see what they turn into over the next few weeks.

Azaleas need acid rich soil - so if you don't have that then that would be the reason the don’t do so well?  Plant them in ericaceous compost (presume you’ll be able to get this from any garden centre or nursery over there?) to try get them looking healthy.

Tomatoes sound ok.  Flowers are good on fruit!

Might be best to grow the Parsley in a large tub if it keeps struggling in your soil?

What are the basics of lawn care? In east London everything is clay, but I suppose grass doesn’t have deep roots.

Do I have to aerate? Now? Should I then feed it organic lawn feed (don’t want to use weed moss killer: kids and animals), then just keep watered?

What’s the best way to aerate: just get a smallish garden fork and prod every 20/30cms or so in rows, like 5/10cms deep, or just spiked shoes?

Any value in trying to condition the soil, make it less clay-ey; if so how? Thanks!

The only thing I know about grass is that the small birds really like ours. And that there's a lot of dead stuff that has grown between it, think the gardeners tried to do something about that before we moved in.

I'll have a look at the nursery to see if they have that compost, what's the best way of mixing that in now my azaleas are still getting used to their new area?
I'll keep an eye on it for the next couple days, it did come with a lot of browned flowers, and there are new buds, so maybe it's just the old flowers being done and new ones coming in? Gonna try and take some pictures every day to compare.

I think they get enough water, we have sprinklers that are set up by the gardeners. think they do something every day around 4am, but I don't know for how long. It's still wet around 7am. For the first couple days I gave extra water at the end of the afternoon.

Soil isn't great here, if I have to believe everyone else who tries to grow things, but there are plenty of people with nice gardens (B has a drone now, so we know everything about the neighbours. (not really, we don't spy on them but I do try and see what others have going in there gardens, just most front gardens get way more sun than my shaded area)).

At least one of my basil stems that broke off during transport is growing new roots, so I have to figure out when I can plant that, and since I've pulled off most of the coleus leaves with holes, I don't see many new ones, just the smaller ones that were there. I'm sure with time there's a chance it'll get worse again, but we'll see. I bought three and planted one in a different spot, and that one doesn't seem to badly affected, so might be able to get some cuttings from that in fall.

Don’t get stressed though : I’ve killed more plants and seedlings than I’ll ever grow, it’s part of the learning process and just makes it sweeter when you eat a fresh apple or tomato from your garden, or just brew a lovely mint tea!

I've killed plenty already, and also have seen things come back to life that I thought were death, so I know it's all part of it. It's just that now I still remember what everything cost... And I think I bought the wrong mint. I didn't find the leaves very mint like and it did say "mojito mix" but I was too lazy to search for the regular one.

Took some pictures on wednesday then again this morning of my azalea, don't think too much has changed yet

Left is wednesday, right is today. Does it look like I need to troubleshoot the flowers? Or is this just what happens with them?

Extra's:
Looks like my coleus aren't gaining holes, for now. I pulled the worst ones off, so maybe they'll recover?

And I think my first new sprout definitely isn't going to be a nasturtium, despite growing right in the middle of the current ones, but the second one might turn out to be a non weed?

Even our particular hill we live on seems different than surroundings, temperature and humidity wise. When we drove home during summer last year with the Jeep's soft top off it was noticeably cooler in our area. I blame it on the fact that the canyon down the street is called the English Canyon. Bringing the chilly vibes to the neighbourhood.

I'm glad the azaleas seem fine, while they're not as expensive as a ps5 game, I'd like to enjoy them at least for a couple months.

Definitely gonna leave the weed things for now and see what they become, they both don't look like my regular weeds that are remnants of the previous plants I dug out, so who knows what it'll be.

Cooper is on bunnywatch. Concentrating hard.

Wow what a view, sod watching tv or playing videogames. Sit outside with a blanket, a thermos and a good book. Superb. Looks like you guys got a great property poprock, if you have any other great views from your house, do post they are appreciated.

Could you offer it to your neighbours if you have too much?

Dinostar77 wrote:

Could you offer it to your neighbours if you have too much?

No, the problem is asparagus is only good to eat when it’s young. Grown so big it’s barely edible, let alone nice.

The Daddy wrote:

You’ve got more than 6 inches in your veg tunnel?

If that’s not a double entendre, I don’t know what is.

Got a local produce market poprock? If you get that tunnel filled up with fruit and veg could be a nice earner on the side?

poprock wrote:

Rabbits hanging out under our decking, while we’re in the middle of redoing it. Loads of them. Hard to photograph though, they’re fast-moving little buggers.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that's no rabbit. It's a Giant Highlands Tail-less Rat. Be warned.

Rattan furniture covers, should they be left on the furniture in this weather (this week coming and this weekend gone) or taken off ? Asking as im at work all week and the garden furniture is covered. At what temperature is it bad to leave the cover on?

I'm thinking taking the cover for the furniture off tomorrow and leaving it off for the week ever though we are both at work. Need to get a cushion storage box as moment they are in the garage.