Borage is an annual but might get through the winter inside and flower in spring if it is just a seedling you've bought.

They grow huge though, and as Monika says seed everywhere, so you might be better starting afresh next year.

Thank you all very much for the info. It has given me more idea what to look for. I had looked on the Which website, but must have been too early. I've actually just bought one from Lidl. I'd just come back from looking round B & Q and one or two other DIY places and went to Lidl for some grocer...

I got some a few years ago from the Heritage Seed Library. You may be able to get some if you ask them.

Better stock up now then. There was lots on the garden centre shelves last week. I noticed because it reminded me of when I was sorting out Dad's gardening stuff and found a large sack of sodium chlorate in the cellar - probably enough to wipe out the whole population of Yorkshire. (Did I hear someo...

There was an article in KG that suggested that parsley could not be transplanted. It can be very easily. You know when you've sown a tray of parsley and wait and wait and nothing appears? Two years running I've given up hope and in order to get a parsley crop, I've bought a nice fresh supermarket po...

You obviously agree with me on this one, Johnboy as you say you certainly wouldn't use Aminopyralid on pasture. I used the general term herbicide as I couldn't think how to spell Aminopyralid. We are all entitled to our opinions and feelings about things and this particular chemical is one that I fe...

If you save seed from an F1 hybrid, you will most likely not get a plant that is the same as the parent plant as it is a cross, but you will still get something worth eating, just different.

I am not wrong at all - It is wrong to allow animals to eat pasture that has been treated with weedkiller whether the chemical companies say it is safe or not.

My main concern over GM, particularly in this country is the possibility of cross pollination with other crops. They are inserting genes from other plants and animals contained in bacteria which attaches to the natural plant cells. They have little or no control of this contaminating other crops, pa...

You'd be surprised how much trouble gates can cause postmen. I've worked for Royal Mail as a postwoman and a manager and gates can be a challenge! While delivering I once pushed a gate to open it , but it was only attached by the bottom hinge so as the bottom of the gate hit me in the shins, knockin...

The Sarpos I've had in the past have stored very well. I make sure they are very dry before bagging them up and store them in a cool dark shed with an old summer duvet over them when it gets frosty. I save my paper hen food bags and they are excellent for storing potatoes and you can write the varie...

Hi Colin, I've been thinking about what variety(s) to grow next year. I usually grow Verde di Italia which is very productive and a good flavour, but I've only grown it in the greenhouse this year, so no problems, its still producing like mad, but is now three quarters of the way across the greenhou...

Sugar Ann is a small pea and is better eaten as a mangetout/sugar snap as the pods are very sweet and fleshy. They don't stay flat like mangetout.

They do only produce a small crop though, I think they are mainly for people with not much space and there are better, more productive varieties.

Hi Hilary, Thanks for this information. It is good to know they are recalling this chemical. Yet another one that they say is "safe" that is proved not to be. They must be scared stiff of being sued for all the damage they've caused this year.

I wouldn't touch GM with a barge pole while there are blight resistant potatoes available, but I'm not a farmer. People who grow their own can usually get a very good crop by only growing early and early main crop potatoes, and also the Sarpo varieties have blight resistance. There is usually a natu...