Nina wrote:

Not really sure it's going that well with my garden. The only thing that I've seemed to grow are some fungus. My lavender that I transplanted from a pot seems to not have changed in the last 1,5 month, still mostly brown around the base but green at the tips. Not sure what it wants.  My new lavender that I bought is unchanged, but this is where the fungus is so I suspect it can't get anything from the soil. My sweet basil just doesn't grown big leaves anymore, and I suspect the rabbit and birds of eating it before I can. Was transplanted from a pot as well, so might just be done. My tomatillos seem to be growing the leavy husks. Hopefully that'll turn into something. My jalapenos I'm not sure about, some flowers seem to wither without making a pepper, but it looks like I have two going on the plant I transferred from pot. The new one isn't showing any pepper at all yet. That also goes for my chille arbol, no sign of peppers yet. Both my roma and cherry tomatoes do show a few green tomatoes, but I also saw quite a few small birds in there the other day, hopefully they'll not get to them before I can. My cucumber plants only have male flowers so far, can't see the female yet and I don't have bees in my garden anyway. Also planted them too closely together probably, it's fun seeing them climb up though. All my cucumber / tomatoes / pepper plants seem to show leaves with a white trail through them. Probably a bug, and supposed to not harm the actual plant, so just need to keep track of new ones and cut them off. Thai basil keeps going in bloom, and isn't producing big leaves anymore, so I'll let that one. Rosemary seems fine, sage had a small growth spurt a few weeks ago but isn't doing much, lemon thyme isn't really growing, same for oregano (although that also came from a pot, might be done), lemon verbena seems ok. My nasturtiums seem to be recovering from the butterfly worm, 1 died, 5 plants left, only one has produced a flower so far. That wilted the next day. Both my flat leaf and curly parsley seem to be doing better after i've put down some mulch.  Not sure about my garlic chives. What was sold to me as scented geraniums isn't doing much, and it also doesn't look like the images google gives me if I search for it.  At least the plant that's under the tree is producing some nice flowers, I used to have million bells there but they needed more sun. What's there now was recommended to me as a plant that likes shade. Good thing it's still going as it was over $20. And I just realized most of my garden is in shade now by noon, apart from the tops of the taller plants.  Will probably transfer my herbs that aren't doing much to pots this week. And then I'll have all winter to reconsider what I'll do with the garden in spring. There's definitely a lot of old weeds / plants coming up that I haven't dug out properly, so that's probably stagnating growth for some of the newer plants as well.

Unlikely wrote:

I don't really understand the English system.  Is it correct that even though you can own the house you can't own the land on which it stands?

davyK wrote:

Yeah - if it isn't a freehold you will pay ground rent. It's usually only a few pounds a year. I do that. And my next door neighbours pay me rent as they are on my plot apparantly.

One can buy it out - it's more hassle than cost for most.

nick_md wrote:

It depends, my place is freehold so I gots the bit of lands too is my understanding.

Congrats Moot, I hate doing any house/mortgage shit, been through a buy out a few years ago and currently remortgaging, I'm not one for stress either.