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@Sandy_123 They're supposed to be edible, but I didn't touch them, they've gone now anyway.

I personally do not like to tidy the garden until the spring weather arrives. I like to leave piles of twigs and leaves on the ground (if it is safe to do I like to keep all paths clear incase of slipping etc) so insects can have somewhere warm hunker down over the cold weather. The long range weather forcast for this month is looking cold but mainly dry with possible snow so the friendly bugs and insects need places to shelter and keep warm. Sometimes a untidy garden over autumn and winter is a tidy garden for insects and bugs to thrive. Then in spring they can come out of there hibernation and the garden tidying can begin.

Nasturtium

well the thing with ragwort is sheep can and will eat the young ragwort safely most animals will not eat it due to its bitter taste but when cut and dried the sugar released makes it more palatable in hay the best way to eradicate it is to pull it before it flowers and sets seeds remove it and burn it ragwort seeds can lay dormant for 20 odd years its a great source of food for the cinnabar moth caterpillars that naturally eat the whole plant

haha bit of hard work never hurt anyone i remember long long time ago i had a bet with a farmers son that my pulling it was better than his faster way of cutting it when his dad sent him back to do it again did not bode well with him