Sure am!

Thank you!

“We’ve tried nothin’ and we’re all out of ideas!”

I just googled it and man, there’s a lot of variation! Some are upright, some more prostrate, some thick, some thin and noodly like mine. I can’t wait to see if it will flower. Thanks for the ID.

Alright, sounds like I’ve got a plan then. Thank you so much for all your help, I really appreciate it!

It’s pretty big, and due to budget and being carless, it will need to be dug by hand. Peat isn’t something I’ve seen where I am, are there other alternatives? Currently I’ve dug out all but the biggest plants and I’ve turned it into a compost pile (food scraps, coffee grounds, grass clippings). I figured I’d let that do It’s thing for a few months, then dig it in and add amendments. Gypsum and lime keep being mentioned, so probably those and some blood and bone or similar. I want to grow veggies and herbs there if it’s possible after all that.

I can get some products delivered from Amazon, if they sell useful amendments. Perhaps manure as well? I’ve gotten so much different advice, I feel like I’m just throwing everything at it lol. Doing something about the clay will make it infinitely easier to dig though.

I need to do some googling to understand exactly what that means, thank you for the info. That garden bed is just so bloody dense, with random lumps of clay and constantly damp.

I’m very much a beginner to this, so I don’t understand much of what you’ve said (although I appreciate the info and will do some googling). I’m renting, the house was built about 30-40 years ago and I don’t know what was done then.

There’s one garden bed in particular that’s full of lumps of clay. The soil is otherwise not too bad to dig, but the drainage seems fairly terrible. I’ve tried sowing seeds in there and very little germinates.

When you say amendments, would that be things like lime or gypsum, or fertilisers and soil improvers, or some other option I’m too much of a noob to know about?

Thanks so much for your help.

Would that be from a nursery or somewhere like a farm supply store? I don’t have a car, so it needs to somewhat portable.

That sounds very promising, thanks for the info!

Thanks for the info, it’d make a pretty salad ingredient.

I made my partner come outside and admire them today.

I guess it would depend on the recipe. I use a lot of older recipes and they’re kind of sparing with the vanilla. I haven’t had any bad effects from doubling or tripling their capful or teaspoonfuls.

I always enviously eye people’s fruit trees and vines, I wish I was closer to a community garden. I’ve seen some posts about guerilla gardeners planting food crops in nature strips. Unfortunately, I live in a place where people would either take them all, or throw fruit at cars.

That sounds beautiful, there were a lot of Jacarandas where I grew up in Australia, they have lovely purple flowers too.

I have no idea, I see this tree on walks and enjoy it. I’ll have to pay more attention when it has leaves.

That must have smelled heavenly.

I meant specific individuals, but I’m happy to hear about species too!

I saw it out on a walk, so not certain, but some googling says it looks like a flowering pear. From memory, I haven’t ever seen fruit on it, so makes sense.

Jesus Christ. “This safety feature is so goddamn inconvenient!”