Loshy, O why did I put myself up to be shot at oooooops. At this stage I’d retain it and nurture your plant, looks interesting what ever it is. It’s growing well looks healthy and I get a feeling it will grow taller so keep your bedroom windows closed and post another picture in a few weeks.
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@Pds we have similar problems with animals helping themselves. We’re on our 3rd lot of peas as mice seem to love them as do the pheasants. We have lots of rabbits too & they destroy everything. You win on the deer front though 
Hubby is very determined though & he comes up with all sorts of ways to keep them out. We can’t grow carrots for some reason but we do have some amazing parsnips.
Our first crop of potatoes were yum. Swift variety I think.
Hi on the detergent front had a battle to outsmart Badgers. Radio left on in veg patch all night on BBC 4 , set poaches alarm that triggered cartridge going off, they laughed at me, then ureka ! An fashioned hurricane lamp left flickering in my sweet corn,their favourite nosh kept them at bay don’t know if it was the flickering or the smell of paraffin, rabbits disappeared 25 years ago, good but very disturbing
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Hi I think a gardening topic would be great I’m a year post stroke before the stroke didn’t do much in the garden to be honest ,but after the stroke I was growing bits and a year later I’m loving it
Hi Loshy phew! Think I can save face here and give you a name, your Hubby says weed I’d say wildflower we’ll leave it to you to decide but it is a perennial not invasive but clump forming up to 3/4 feet confident it’s hemp agrimony flowers don’t have flower power but insects like it. Plant in on your boundary it likes damp conditions
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Hello @Pds. This is my mornings’ work. I feel like I am building a fortress. Trying to protect kale, kohlrabi and purple sprouting broccoli, mainly from the pigeons but the cabbage whites are appearing now too. Sometimes it feels too hard 
but at least we don’t have badgers…yet. Julia x
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@JuliaH you’re doing a great job there. Will be worth the hard work when you’re tucking into all the veggies. They taste so much nicer than shop bought.
@Loshy you could start by growing a couple of things in a tub and see how you get on. Although I do love to see flower gardens too 
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You could try some potatoes, parsnips, carrots? You might be ok to plant some main crop spuds & I did see somewhere the other day that you can get potatoes you can plant after you’ve dug the others up.
You could try a few different things…I’m sure if you don’t tell them they’ve been planted late they won’t know 
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Loshy think the plant draping over wall is very appropriate’Wall Germander’ the lovely red one foxes me🤔 could I have a close up when flowers are open fully.Veg this time of year sow perpetual spinach, and harvest leaves when large, should go through winter just pick now and again. Veg plants round here in garden centres looking tired now but they are still selling nice lettuce plants and various abbages but pest protection needed .Next year courgettes in large enough pots are bomb proof
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Hi Loshy plant in foreground is a thug alchemical mollis forms large clumps and seeds freely so can take over, best to remove it. Think I can spot rhododendron against wall if it’s not special scrap it as it looks a bit straggly. Love the word beck.
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Made my first lot of compost since the stroke, ably assisted by the cat. It probably has loads of weed seed
s in it but it looks good
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@FionaB1 that’s impressive. The cat looks like he approves so it must be good xx
Well done @FionaB1. Turning rubbish into goodness just makes sense. It is also free apart from time and effort. Yes there maybe weed seeds ( mine are mainly tomatoes) but they are easy to spot and pull out. Carry on composting has a certain ring to it…they should have made a film with Babs and Kenneth Williams😂
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@JuliaH carry on composting made me chuckle thank you 
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Always found composting enjoyable in past and actively went searching for different ingredients, animal manure pigeons poo seaweed, feathers,apple pulp, you name it I composted it, took pride in how hot it got when fermenting. Now have to take it at more leisurely pace and limit myself to kitchen waste lawn mowings few weeds and good old chicken poo but have my eye on a local Shetland pony stable as source of straw/hay and if lucky poo 
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One of our chickens has been going walk about up lane and think she’s got a secret cache of eggs hidden away in hedge, as we haven’t got a cockerel eggs not fertile so one confused hen and a hidden clutch of eggs that the wild creatures will find and enjoy.so now got to find out how she gets out of garden, but when they get broody They become very crafty. Once had a hen many moons ago who managed to lay 20 eggs under a shed before she was spotted creeping commando style through garden and disappearing under shed
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@Pds I love it. A crafty chicken indeed. Good luck hunting the escape route
Hello @Pds. The secret life of chickens or rather hens. I’ve always wished for CCTV to gain an insight into what goes on with animals I think I know and live with. Would be fascinating. Julia x:rabbit:
Yes nocturnal goings on have always intrigued me. Had two owl boxes with cameras linked to tv in my potting shed that visitors to garden when the garden was opened for National Garden Scheme could view young tawny owls, mandarin duck on eggs, stock dove, jackdaw one year , and flipping grey squirrels. All came to end after being stroked quite dramatically when my employer who I trusted for 33 years asked me to vacate my tied cottage. Just what you want to hear shortly after a stroking. But hey ho worse things happen at sea and you can’t walk back. Water under the bridge now and we’ve moved on
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@Pds that must have been hard for you but onwards & upwards like you say. Sounds like you’ve made a nice home for yourself with your gardening & all your chickens.