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Well done @potted ! You'll be able to bring on plants well in there. Yes rotation is a good idea, but you may need to allow a "messy" space at the end of the garden for the out of season pots to hide. How about a couple of tomatoes in the greenhouse?

The single unbranched stems are often called whips. Sea Buckthorn is very thorny, hence it's name; it's as tough as old boots and has been grown to stabilise sand dunes along with Marram grass. I had a number of painful encounters with it during summer visits to Gibraltar Point near Skegness....

Yes, mine have germinated well, very pretty beetroot red seedlings I'm waiting for true leaves so that I can prick them out, apparently the germination rate is around 200% No idea what I'm going to do with them, some will go into my raised mixed bed where I grow often used veg (Welsh...

@waterbut If there was an opening from the apartment to the spiral steps and thence to the ground,they may well get away with it. Otherwise, it sounds like an enquiry to the local fire safety office would be worth it. Presume you have already raised any possible safety problems with the owners ?

What a good result @hailbopp, not surprised you are now on your knees. You will have deserved a good rest when the sale is over.

What do you experienced gardeners make of this video? Basically the guy just cuts all the leaves off his fern. Some people in the comments say that's a terrible idea, others say it works, and some say it depends which type of fern.I've been feeling like cutting 2 of my tattered three ferns...

Good plan.

Thank you everyone, it is covered in flower buds so I'll keep it potted near the back door for fragrance and then consider where to put it. We had a pretty cold winter for here and it would have been sat outside in the sales beds during that, so is probably a lot more hardy than I had considered.

That plant looks like Euryops pectinatus. A common sub shrub that's used in a lot of public planting schemes.

We love our Lakeland airfryer - one big drawer with a removable divider. Bought silicon dishes which are dishwasher-proof to save on the mess.

I used to top dress my clay soil with loads of it, and it was a family challenge with the kids to get to the mushrooms first. Although I know they add chalk, it didn't seem to affect the plants, but I never tried making compost purely with it.