I am no good at all at it, and don't really try. Just doesn't maintain my interest. I do like to see a good bonsai though. 

Our current garden is in fact a yard, and I do have designs on doing something about that, so hopefully by the end of this summer I'll have magically learned how to do some of the basics and want to keep my kid off my immaculate lawn and so on.

I have a recollection of you growing something back in the days of NPCFF.

Mikee exchanging tablets with a disreputable forumite back in the day

I'm guessing that ain't aspirin.

Wait - that's Mikey, not Mikee. Mikey was a punk, Mikee a goth. I'm sure of it. 

You're right. The Whatsapp posse corrected me in no uncertain terms last night. I haev teh olds.

I actually don't think it was anything remiss - think it was just a mint. Quite why we were passing it in that fashion, I can't remember. We probably started coronavirus.

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Interesting. When did the pangolins get involved?

I'd rather not say.

Back in those days, my sister had gone off to university so I covered her bedroom in foil, bought huge halogen lamps, and grew some of the finest crop that my friends and I had sampled in our recent trip to Amsterdam.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to replicate the quality.

I have absolutely no idea why my mum allowed me to do that.

These days it's less Purple Haze and more Crape Myrtle.

I'm trying to be green fingered. But up until recently, had zero interest.

When we got our house we really liked that the back garden had no lawn, was mostly 2 levels of decking with a decent sized driveway and had a scant flowerbed running up one side.

It's got to the point where it's embarrassing having the neighbour's gardens each side of us done out, so we're making an effort this summer to get stuff sorted.

A wall's being built along the edge and across the top of an open driveway (blue line in the picture), we've got a load of railway sleepers on order and I'm gonna build six 8'x4' raised planters for green stuff.

I've been looking into how you're supposed to line, fill and maintain these things. This guide seems pretty comprehensive, so gonna follow it and see how it goes. It'll probably be next year before we get anything grown, but I'm hoping for a decent vegetable crop - potatoes, courgette, beans, cabbage that sort of thing.

Got a shed going in at some point too on the flat concrete bit in the middle. I'm essentially using this project as an excuse to use moar power tools. Gonna need a mitre saw for the sleepers, a hefty drill for making the stays in the concrete and something to fill the shed. :C