Son requested this as a starter.
Then it's duck with lots of stuff from the garden. Not sure if we've settled on a pud yet, won't be heavy Christmas Pudding.

I think they do best direct sown. Fork the ground over quite deeply and sow in a drill. Can dry sow or use seed that has just sprouted on strips of kitchen paper. I don't know where you are but I sow rather later than is often suggested. I warm the patch up with cloches and then sow first or second ...

And did you sow in situ or transplant?

We've had a few more resident starlings this year, think I saw a couple doing backstroke this afternoon, another inch today from Global Drowning.

Just when we are having a heatwave - been up to +3.0 today but falling again. Snow not far away in Windermere.

We used to have ours emptied by farmers but that is now definitely illegal and if caught the farmers can lose subsidies / farm payments so the ones round here won't do it any longer. I think I would carry on reporting but six months out of sync if it happens. Blame the state of the health service, h...

There are things called the General Binding Rules that are an absolute nightmare to follow, the way they are applied varies according to how long your tank has been installed. Whether you have to make your system compliant is also vague but what seems to be definite is that you either have to be com...

Don't think I'll be cutting grass for a while. I'm having a modification to my septic tank system done to make it compliant with the latest legislation. Been an absolute nightmare with all the rain and the stuff the digger has been unearthing, highlight probably the blades off a hay mowing machine. ...

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There are two depths, I only use the deeper ones. I use them for peas (2 per cell), broad beans, runner beans, sweetcorn, sweet peas and gourds every year. This year I experimented with leeks. Instead of sowing them in a pot then lining them out to grow on before putting them in their final place I ...

Lovely Autumn morning after a bit of a ground frost. I hope the leaves last a bit longer, our valley has been beautiful this year.

We grow them every year outside for salsa and pickle. We used to grow mixed ones and always thought the green ones did better so the packet we have used for the last few years is green only.

All we forage for are blackberries and sloes. With you on fungi TB, never touch them wild or cultivated.

I've been using homemade John Innes type formulations for a few years simply using leafmould in place of peat. My commonest potting mix is 5 parts soil, 2 parts leafmould and 1 part sharp sand. I add base fertiliser and sometimes lime and/or extra potash or phosphate depending on what I am using it ...

Usually they are nearly all well used apart from the remaining two letter box ones, I've never had much success with those and am gradually putting standard fronts on them, but this year there were quite a few that looked like they had little or no use. There seem to have been plenty of young tits a...